<p>USC VS Tulane?????</p>
<p>Ummm, that’s pretty vague. What is it you would like to know? If you mean in a football game, USC wins.</p>
<p>You are correct it is vague. I was accepted to both and I’m trying to decide between the two. I really loved Tulane when I visited and I like its size as well. I have not seen USC yet.</p>
<p>S2 was accepted at USC and chose Tulane. He thought USC had too isolated a campus after visiting a friend several times. He felt the frat system played too important a role in the social life of the school since leaving campus was not easy. He has nothing against frats, he joined one at Tulane. He thought academically they were about the same and both had programs he liked. Both offered him merit awards, so that was not determinant. He simply resonated with Tulane and New Orleans, and is very happy with his decision.</p>
<p>Adding my 5 cents to idad’s comments, USC has twice as big a freshman class. It isn’t like a big state school, but it does have more of the large lecture classes and TA’s teaching than Tulane. USC is a bit more selective academically, although both schools are way up there in the big picture. USC has certainly made major improvements over the last decade, as has Tulane since Katrina. </p>
<p>It really depends on what you are looking for. Both are great schools with lots of opportunities. On paper there seem to be a lot of similarities, yet the schools have a really different feel because of location, size, and the campuses. It is hard to describe, but you know it when you are there. Just one of those situations where if you can visit both, you should have a pretty good idea which you like better. Kind of like the LA restaurant scene vs. NOLA. Both have world-renowned places, but the offerings are very different. Here, academically the offerings might not be so different, but the atmosphere of the “restaurants” really are. USC is more urban feeling and a “busier” feeling place, Tulane more elegant and intimate.</p>
<p>One other thing that may or may not be important to you is that with USC, it is harder to change majors if you decide you get interested in something offered in a different division than where you started out, if I understand their system correctly. At Tulane it is easier to try many things off the menu (to continue to torture the analogy) and completely switch from meat to seafood. OK, I have gone too far.</p>