<p>columbia_student: re Post #107, the "total support", am I to infer that that is the amount each school receives in contribution from all sources? or just alumni? </p>
<p>If so, this once again illustrates the misimpression that comes when combining private and public universities in the same table.</p>
<p>UCLA, for example, receives at least $26,000 for each student from the State of CA which allows them to reduce tuition from the prevailing $35,000 at peer privates to $9,000. That is a $26,000 contribution per student * 26,000 undergraduate students = $676,000,000 contribution from CA ... Therefore combining the $376M shown for UCLA in your table, with the $676M from CA, UCLA's total contribtution would be just about $1.05 billion per year, topping the table by a wide margin. Of course the same math holds for the other UC schools differing only by # of undergraduate students.</p>
<p>DunninLA, the table posted by columbia_student is for total donations to the schools, from alumni and other donors. The data should not be used as a proxy for revenues (it does not include tuition, endowment income, etc...), so public funding isn't relevant.</p>
<p>USC</a> President - Speeches and Articles - 2008 - Faculty Address</p>
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Moreover, during the past fiscal year, USC raised $470 million in cash
and in-kind gifts received (not pledges), which ranked us ahead of every
other university in America save Stanford and Harvard.
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<p>Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Apply to both. This should be a question for after you get accepted to both, which, by the way, is very difficult.</p>
<p>why is kenf so bitter? I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that he or his children didn't get accepted rather than the money "issues".</p>
<p>I'm OOS and had to decide between UCLA and USC. USC came through with way more financial aid. I love it here (can't imagine myself anywhere else) and the rich kids are actually in a MINORITY, as anyone who knows anything about USC would know. I wouldn't slam UCLA because it is obviously a great school as well. Get real, kenf. </p>
<p>Oh, and also for anyone who's refusing to apply to USC because it's "SOOOOO DANGEROUS," good. We don't want crybabies who decide whether or not to apply to schools based on so-called bad areas here.</p>