<p>I've hear of a couple, like the film nerds, the beautiful spoiled blonde children, the international kids, and the frat boys who's dad's bought their way in, but that's all so negative! While I'm sure that there are kids like that who go to USC, I don't think it's the clear majority. Like, there are bound to be artsy types and super Christian types and hipster kids and flamboyant boys and hippie kids and anime fans and skater boys and what not, right? I'm just wondering what's prevalent. I'm trying to go someplace different from my ugg boot, true religions, juicy couture velour wearing high school when it comes time for college and unfortunately, I've heard that USC has got a lot of "those types". I don't mean to judge people my their appearance or clothing or whatever, it's just that 30something dollars is an awful lot of money and I'd rather not have my parents pay for an experience that I don't want to repeat. Really though, as long as there's a decent number of kids that aren't buried in drama and sleeping with each-other's exes every other weekend, it's all good. I just want to know.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/768730-get-into-usc-do-i-need-provide-headshot.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/768730-get-into-usc-do-i-need-provide-headshot.html</a> (This is the same poster.)
You clearly have such a low opinion of everyone at USC, I can’t imagine why you would even want to apply. I suggest you apply elsewhere.</p>
<p>well basically… you make friends with whoever you want. There are HUNDREDS of clubs… so if you join a vocal one, a Christian one, a sports one, etc those are the people you will meet. In my experience those are the best friends I’ve made, but you meet a few friends in classes as well. You say you don’t want to pay that much for a bad experience… not to sound cliche, but college is what you make it.</p>
<p>there are all types of people but since arriving here this fall, ive seen that ppl dont like to diversify (for both race and personality)</p>
<p>“To get into USC do I need to provide a headshot? (This is the same poster.)
You clearly have such a low opinion of everyone at USC, I can’t imagine why you would even want to apply. I suggest you apply elsewhere.”</p>
<p>that was a joke. i’m sorry that you’re a miserable, frumpy old middle aged woman whose husband doesn’t love her any more…shouldn’t have let yourself go, dear, and shouldn’t have gotten rid of that SENSE OF HUMOR. i suggest you go to a gym. i suggest you find something more fufilling to do with your life than tell me what to do with mine. i suggest that you go to neimans and buy some makeup, go get pretty, maybe then you’ll have a higher opinion of yourself and won’t feel the need to take the negative energy produced by your self loathing on other people, younger people, who are actually trying to do something with their lives. thaaanks!</p>
<p>back to the point though, with the race and personality thing, what do you mean by that? is the school basically segregated???</p>
<p>whoa— torinoway— I think you blew it for good here. </p>
<p>I truly hope you are only a jerk online and you are a nice rational person in real life. I also sincerely wish you luck in your self-realization and in your college hunting.</p>
<p>hey torinoway - Last post, I extended you credit under a presumption that you were really trying to be funny and clever. I thought your “headshot” question was a joke and some of the responses were funny. (Especially the “submit your sex tape” one.) </p>
<p>Now you’re being mean, small and ignorant. You have a sharp, biting, knee-jerk response instict that is going to cause you a lot of pain in this life if you don’t learn to curtail it!</p>
<p>Did you know it’s common to ridicule what we fear? (and you’re doing it both through your humor attempts at not getting in/getting accepted by USC and your response to alamemom calling you out on them.) You’ve got a long life ahead of you. I hope you grow up nicer than this… You owe alamemom an apology.</p>
<p>From a member of the Trojan family (and a frumpy, middle-aged woman) . . . the good news is that you are NOT the kind of person who can be found at USC.</p>
<p>Torinoway: You seem to have an amazing amount of hatred directed toward everyone who isn’t you. I would have answered your question honestly that there are all types of people who populate USC. But it would seem that you prejudge everyone, perhaps due to your own insecurities. And I am being polite here. I would say something else, One of the many challenge I see you confronting, be it at SC or anywhere would seem to be your inability to control yourself. </p>
<p>To cc411, doame, and IMHopeful: Game, set and match.</p>
<p>honestly, what i find sad is the fact that a bunch of forty year old internet ■■■■■■ feel the need to gang up on a seventeen year old in the first place. yes i insulted two of you, but i’m not insecure. as for my insult on this post, it’s because i felt like i was asking a legitemate, honest, non-comic question. the fact that alamemom felt the need to be the first poster and basically announce that i’m again, joking, and that i have no real desire or place at USC was absolutely unescesarry. So that got me upset. People will read her post, go by what she says, and that would discourage people from giving me an answer. Now that was rude, and although I know that two wrongs don’t make a right, I decided to be just as rude, right back to her.</p>
<p>Also, on my clever, funny “headshot” board, someone said that I called my mom an ignorant moron, which she is NOT. I said that it would take her an hour to TYPE three scentances, and I said that because she’s not very good with computers and is a slow typist, not because she’s dumb. My mom is a doctor, thank you very much, and I think of her pretty highly. I’m on this website because I’m going to be applying to schools within the next three months, and this is a place where I can get answers to specific questions that my college counsellors can’t help me with. I don’t want my ability to get an answer hindered by a joke that some fortysomethings took out of hand. You won’t see me again, because I’m making a new username. Have fun being frumpy, goodbye.</p>
<p>Sorry, alamemom, also included in the above. :)</p>
<p>torino - I hope you don’t miss the irony of your situation. alamemom called you out on your tendency to stereotype and hate the students you think must be at USC. She didn’t say horrible things about you as a person, but merely pointed out icky behavior. You responded by blasting middle aged women who need more frequent gym workouts and better makeup in order to be good enough to breath your rarified air. You pose as this vibrant, open-minded person, claiming to be worried about surrounding yourself with people obsessed with looks and appearances, yet your posts are riddled with exactly that. Nobody here would begrudge you an answer to a legitimate question, but you have to learn to play nice at some point in your life. And that includes graciously accepting input from people you might think are somehow less worthy of your respect because they are middle-aged, or overweight, or need makeup, or type slowly. What is your problem that makes you lash out with all this craziness???</p>
<p>And what do you have against film nerds, anyway? (Just joking, really!)</p>
<p>Wow - I’m feeling quite flattered! I am actually well over a decade past being a forty year old internet ■■■■■. I almost feel like I was carded – made my night! I am reminded of a phrase my husband it quite fond of . . . “often wrong, never in doubt.”</p>
<p>“I’m on this website because I’m going to be applying to schools within the next three months, and this is a place where I can get answers to specific questions that my college counsellors can’t help me with.”
If you want to be taken seriously by posters who DO know a lot more about USC than you do because our kids are students there, then I suggest you ask questions without trying to be a “comic”, and you might get some serious answers. But if you are going to “blow off” knowledgeable posters, just because we are older than you, then believe me, you won’t get many responses from students who are now too deep into Fall classes , research, community service projects, etc at USC to waste their time trying to talk you out of your preconceived notions of what USC students these days are really like. Come back when you are ready to show you are ready to be respectful to others regardless of their age. Maybe then you will be mature enough to fit in at USC. USC is no longer the “U of Spoiled Children.” Those days were over long ago.</p>
<p>To all older posters:</p>
<p>Please keep in mind that most of us greatly appreciate all your help! Don’t be thrown by this jerk off. I am applying to USC this fall and hope that you are here when I need you for certain types of questions. Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>torinoway - Sure you can create a new user name and start over. The problem will be, if you pepper your legitimate questions with biting humor, sarcasm, gross stereotypes, put-downs etc. it will be difficult to get the information you want whatever your user name.</p>
<p>This is a USC thread area. The posts come from students, parents, alumni, business folks- you name it. You are putting people off by the tone of your questions. It’s just not a successful approach…</p>
<p>USC is in urban, integrated, multi-cultural LOS ANGELES. It is more diverse than almost any university in the country. I have no idea where you are coming up with your presumptions, but the best I can suggest for you is to read the admissions stats on schools you are interested in, really scrutinize their websites and go on campus tours. I hope you find a good fit. </p>
<p>As you can see, we at USC are “family”…a well-known, famous TROJAN FAMILY. No matter your reasoning, it’s not polite to go into someone’s “house” and behave like a brat.</p>
<p>May Post from Torinoway: </p>
<p>Stellar UW grades could get you into an Ivy grad school, right? </p>
<p>Like, an amazing UW GPA and some sick extra curriculars and reccomendations and whatever else those grad school people want could toootally get someone into an Ivy grad school, right? Such as… Stanford? For a URM female communications/broadcast journalism major?
I’m trying to devise a plan. I’m going to be a senior in three days, and although my parents are hellbent on me applying to Ivies right off the bat, I don’t have the grades or the desire. I wanted to go to USC at first but even that would be a reach (shorter reach than an Ivy, but a reach none the less) and my parents won’t let me visit because they’re so against me going anywhere in SoCal. I just don’t feel like I can go to a school that I haven’t visited! UW, on the other hand, I’ve lived walking-distance from for the majority of my life. I love Seattle, DEARLY, but I don’t want to end up on local acess cable or anything like that, so I want to go someplace ultra-respectable for that masters degree.</p>
<p>Is my plan feasible? </p>
<p>Wow, am I the only one that thought Torinoway was a guy? As a USC freshman at Annenberg at USC who isn’t blonde, spoiled, etc. I am amazed at the intelligent, funny, quirky and entirely amazing people at this school. If Torinoway wants to be in Broadcast Journalism then USC would be an incredible place for her…but with her attitude and idea that “frat boys father’s” can buy their way in, I doubt she’ll ever be accepted. USC is very selective these days and she hasn’t posted her stats but above she says it would be a stretch. So I don’t think we have to worry too much about her coming to our school.</p>
<p>torinoway-
Don’t assume all here are just “old” internet ■■■■■■. “Worst” case is at least some are moms of smart kids- USC admissions is HIGHLY selective with the latest Freshman Profile showing admits with a mean unweighted GPA of 3.8 and a middle 50% SAT composite of 2095.<br>
<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/0910/FreshmanProfile2008v3.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/0910/FreshmanProfile2008v3.pdf</a></p>
<p>Honestly, most here ARE really trying to help you (tough love, you could call it.) Instead of brushing off the comments, PLEASE re-read the posts in this thread. Yes, mostly responded harshly but read your posts again and hopefully you can see why.<br>
You discouraged people all by yourself. You didn’t need any help. I am sure you will blast me but you will do much better to improve your chances at ANY college by not trying to be rude back and just trying to learn something about yourself from all this.</p>
<p>About your original question- I will address it:
You said you heard about film nerds, beautiful spoiled blonde children, frat boys who’s dad’s (sic- s/b whose dads) bought their way in. (You have to know that is unfairly stereotyping and it would incite a defense.) USC is a large school in a big city and has just about every type of student. There is no prevalent type on campus. There will however, probably be a prevalent type when you look at YOUR friends because you will pick friends that you like- whatever that may be. You WILL be able to find your type at USC, guaranteed. tumbleweed32 gave you the correct answer:
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<p>There is no way to really know the ages of those posting here but most of us have been 17. It’s a tough age and we are very lucky to have a nice group here volunteering their time to help other 17 year-olds like you. </p>
<p>(Good luck to you, jax90291. Please feel free to ask any questions.)</p>
<p>Dear torinoway,</p>
<p>I really must apologize for posting a link to your other USC-student-bashing thread to give context to this new one, I had NO idea you were so embarrassed and ashamed by it. </p>
<p>Maybe it will cheer you up to know I showed this thread to my husband and he found it quite amusing. </p>
<p>Sincerely,
A lame mom (clearly I am back to lame, cc411!)</p>
<p>P.S. Thanks to the other parent posters and to jax90291 – hope to see YOU here next year!</p>
<p>Torinoway – Go back and take a good look at your post #5. Really look at it. Perhaps you live in a world in which it is OK for people to lash out in that sort of hateful, out of control way. Or perhaps you have so much hostility within that you can’t be crossed without exploding. But I very much hope not. I hope that, instead, you are able to take a look at the vitriol you spewed in post #5, step back, and think about it. </p>
<p>Ask yourself if this is the way you want to come across…even to anonymous strangers on the Net. Is this really who you are and the way you want to be perceived? What were you feeling that made you go off the deep end? If you had wanted to tell the preceding poster that you were hurt or offended, could you have found another way to do it? If so, why didn’t you modulate your response?</p>
<p>I don’t expect you to respond to these questions here, but I do hope that rather than going for the knee jerk reaction that I must be a fat ugly hag with cellulite to call you on your behavior, you’ll take a deep breath and try to figure out what set you off and how to control your reactions. Please don’t deflect with the answer that you were just trying to be funny and no one has a sense of humor. Look at post #5. It isn’t funny.</p>