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^ Yes, it is true...Daddy comes and picks up his USC kid on the way home to Orange County from his L.A. office.
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<p>I think the same thing is true for kids who go to UCLA and Harvard or U of C or NU if they have family that live nearby.</p>
<p>According to this link, 56% are not from California
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Our students come from all over the country, with 56 percent coming from
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<p>Read here for USC transformation to residential campuses.</p>
<p>USC is no longer the holding tank for Orange County kids who will go into their father's business. In truth it never was, but when you approach 10% of anything, it gets overblown.</p>
<p>USC is now an ecclectic student body from all over the country and the world. At least 75% have no relatives or family nearby, so they won't be going anywhere for the weekend.</p>
<p>The underlying problem at USC is that students start to get apartments a few miles west of campus, and they go HOME each night and weekend.</p>
<p>"I think the same thing is true for kids who go to UCLA and Harvard or U of C or NU if they have family that live nearby."</p>
<p>I have heard this thing again and again (students go home for the weekend and the out-of-town students are left in lonely dorms) from at least 5 USC grads that I know personally and I heard it again in spades last year when a family friend was choosing between Vandy and USC and was getting information from current USC students who are from our area. </p>
<p>In my experience, it was quite rare / uncommon for NU students who were from the Chicago area to go home on weekends. Few of them had cars, at any rate. That may have changed over time, but from what I hear "on the street", the USC leave-on-the-weekends is still prevalent.</p>