USC vs UVa Opportunities

Hello,
What’s the relationship between the area surrounding the universities listed above and students wanting jobs, volunteering opportunities, or simple experience.

For example, would you say undergrads would be able to go to the hospitals associated with UVa or USC and be able to volunteer or get some other sort of experience?

While staying at UVa, I realize how small the surrounding town was, with one mall and little availability for opportunities other than UVa’s hospital. One grad talked about how she had gone to NY for an internship because she couldnt find one near UVa. However, while I have not gone to USC, the area of LA holds more options in terms of doing more outside of class.

What are your two cents?
Thank you.

USC is smack dab in the middle of the city of Los Angeles – there are tons of opportunities to have fun, volunteer,get internships with the huge Trojan network,and experience life in a really big city.
There is no comparing the two as far as what life as a college student will be like at USC vrs uVa,

I agree completely. My daughter faced the same choice, but after visiting both school’s, she quickly eliminated UVa from contention. She is now a sophomore at USC and loves it. She is very thankful that she made the decision to travel from FL to USC. The opportunities at USC and within the greater LA area are almost endless. The USC alumni network is also amazing. To me personally, I would have only encouraged my daughter to potentially consider Stanford, Yale, Princeton and Brown over USC. My younger daughter, now a HS junior, has already decided that USC is her first choice. And I am very thankful regarding her decision. As a parent, my impression of USC has only grown over the last two years. They are excellent at all of the things that are important to parents… from communication to financial aid to all of their various online portals related to registration, assistance, tracking, housing, etc. They are just quite simply a well-funded and well-oiled machine. USC has mastered the college experience, in my opinion, including everything related to the exchange of information. My final suggestion would be to look at the survey details provided by students themselves comparing the two colleges at https://colleges.niche.com/rankings/best-colleges/ I have found their rankings and parameters to be far more useful than other college ranking services. Good luck with your decision…