<p>they are just helping this girl out to going to the better school, which is of course USC :)</p>
<p>it is better in her situation, from what she had provided to us and academically is better
and the alumni family is amazing!</p>
<p>^ thank you :)</p>
<p>Either school is great</p>
<p>Really, it only depends what program works better for you. I’m not a huge USC fan, but I would love to go there for grad school (i’m a new bruin).</p>
<p>The whole USC>UCLA and UCLA>USC is just to keep the rivalry going, but seriously either school is a great school to be coming from. All those damn rankings are pretty ridiculous–very subjective. </p>
<p>oh, and at Grey, mr. future USC man–Go Bruins!</p>
<p>haha in all good fun.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your help. Lol, but I think I’m still on the fence. Maybe if I visit both schools while some students are there I can get a better feel. It would be awesome if I could go to UCLA for undergrad and then USC for med school! Then I could get both the UCLA and USC experiences!</p>
<p>missanab, get a sense of humor.</p>
<p>Do finances play a role? If so, think carefully since cost of attending without aid can be quite different, especially if you’re a CA resident and don’t get any aid.</p>
<p>One thing about acceptances, I know of a transfer who didn’t get her offer until mud to late July & was accepted for January of her sophomore year. Since you haven’t heard back from USC yet, I don’t know when they will notify you.</p>
<p>How the hell can you guys have problems figuring out which school is better?</p>
<p>UCLA has better job placements, better reputation, harder to get admitted.</p>
<p>UCLA > USC</p>
<p>UCLA does not have better job placements AT ALL. Also, if you had the sense to look at the first page, you would see the admitted students profile and would hesitate before saying that UCLA is harder to get admitted to.</p>
<p>UCLA might have a better reputation, but what does that have to do with how preparatory USC’s health promotion and disease prevent program ([USC</a> Catalogue: The Schools: Keck School of Medicine of USC: Department of Preventive Medicine: Undergraduate Degree](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2008/schools/medicine/preventive/undergraduate.html]USC”>http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2008/schools/medicine/preventive/undergraduate.html)) </p>
<p>versus UCLA’s psychology program ([Psychology</a> B.A.](<a href=“Study Area - New Student & Transition Programs”>Study Area - New Student & Transition Programs)) is for med school?</p>
<p>Thanks Grey_Syntactics. THe degree at USC looks really interesting to me. However so do the psych classes at UCLA. It doesn’t really matter what my major is for med school but it would probably be helpful to get my undergrad from the Keck School of Medicine. </p>
<p>One other question. I qualify for the honors program at UCLA. Does USC have something similar. I only saw stuff for the College of Letters, arts and Sciences.</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Honors Programs > USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences](<a href=“http://college.usc.edu/honors/]Undergraduate”>http://college.usc.edu/honors/) has information about the honors programs at USC. Neither of my kids have been in this program at USC, so don’t have any personal experience about it.</p>
<p>One thing that is attractive to many about USC is that it encourages students to double-major in divergent fields. [USC</a> Renaissance Scholars](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/programs/ugprograms/renaissance/index.shtml]USC”>http://www.usc.edu/programs/ugprograms/renaissance/index.shtml)</p>
<p>This would allow you to double-major in both fields you’ve written about–psych as well as preventative medicine, if that’s something that interests you.</p>
<p>Good luck in figuring out your path. My kids have been happy at USC–things that appeals to them include the compact campus size and small class sizes.</p>
<p>for sure loopy!
& I have a sense of humor, but I’m pretty sure you usc students were getting quite upset. You need to relax grey, seriously.
For the record, I have nothing against usc…I just didn’t apply there and I was just giving my honest opinion.
I still believe that ucla is a better school…
shoot me! hahahaaaa :)</p>
<p>UCLA can suck it, they only care about GPAs and Sat scores.</p>
<p>UCLA is a huge, bureaucratic public school. You’re just a number on a data sheet, and you get lost in the crowd. At UCLA, you are pretty much on your own in the mess.</p>
<p>I grew up in Westwood, and know many people who went to both schools. People at UCLA tell me that it’s nice, but they were expecting much more, because of the rankings. UCLA is overrated, and gets its rankings because they admit on numbers, so the stats look better. UCLA also has some good graduate schools. Otherwise, at the undergraduate level, UCLA and USC are definitely equal.</p>
<p>USC is smaller and private. You are part of the Trojan family that helps you the entire way. The alumni network will have you get so many opportunities all over LA and CA. The free, amazing mentoring/tutoring programs at USC will not let you fail, and your GPA will benefit. At USC you are a person who is guided the entire way at one of the best universities in the world. You’re not a number on a paper, you’re part of a successful family.</p>
<p>I would only go to UCLA because it is cheap. If you can pay, USC is definitely, definitely the better option.</p>
<p>flyingllama, I really think you’re right. UCLA is all about numbers. I had some horrible family circumstances my first year of college and managed to get above a 3.0. I explained the situation too in detail in my app. Once the situation cleared up my second year, my gpa went up significantly. UCLA didn’t care though at all about my situation. I agree that at USC you’re not just a number . . .</p>
<p>If your aim is medical school like me, perhaps USC would be a good choice, since getting high grades does not mean you have to be the top 7-8% of the class.
I heard most UCLA courses are competitive curve–this is not promising for a good GPA.
UCLA > USC in terms of life sciences undergrad, but med schools don’t care about undergrad too much. More GPA and MCAT scores.</p>
<p>USC fails compared to UCLA.</p>
<p>UCLA fails compared to USC.</p>
<p>Now where does that leave us?</p>
<p>To ponder on why I say so. 
I have reasons.</p>
<p>So do I. Now what? :)</p>
<p>:o So you concur with me?</p>