<p>"University is No. 9 on list of schools national applicants would want to attend, says Princeton Review survey.</p>
<p>In more evidence of the growing popularity of USCs undergraduate programs, the university recently was ranked in the top 10 dream colleges based on a Princeton Review survey of college applicants.</p>
<p>USC was listed as No. 9 nationally by students answering the question: What dream college do you wish you could attend if acceptance or cost werent issues? More than 8,700 applicants from around the nation completed the survey.</p>
<p>In order, the top 10 dream colleges identified by college-bound students were Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, New York University, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, USC and UCLA."</p>
<p>For all of you who have USC on their list of Dream Schools, it looks like you're not alone according to this survey. USC's rise in popularity over the past few years has been amazing and there's reason to believe it will continue to make advancements. Congrats once again to everyone who got accepted and will be part of the class of 2012. And for those of you who had USC as your dream school and didn't get in, remember you can always transfer in (like I will hopefully do next fall).</p>
<p>Remember that for the last few years, NYU has been #1, well ahead of the ivies. It reads like a survey of brand recognition of name schools by people who have not yet really looked at colleges. Just my impression.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to know results if Penn's Wharton School of Business & Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service were options for students accepted to their dream school but interested in either business or international relations. In short, I would like to know the yields for students accepted to either Wharton or to Walsh. Both may have yields similiar to Harvard's 79%.</p>
<p>When googling to find the original link I came across an article in Penn's daily newspaper mentioning this survey and discussing why Penn is NOT a dream school for many students: Penn</a> is not a 'dream school,' says Princeton Review survey - News
Ironically, the tone of the article was very reminiscent of what one would describe as "Tufts Syndrome", a tone I never found even a hint of on the Tufts board, or the Tufts daily paper.</p>
<p>I agree that this survey is the "hot chick" in HS, which everyone wants to go out with, but not everyone wants to marry once they look under the hood :D. As someone else mentioned, before this year NYU was #1 for 3 consecutive years, driven by little more than its prime location. I suspect that USC would have placed better this year in the Trojans had not found ways to self-destruct in football.</p>