<p>Why would a mom bother to write such a nasty post? I just don't get it. My daughter did get into UCLA with honors and chose USC. Most USC kids have lots of choices as you can tell. Some kids choose UCLA and that's fine too--lot's of choices in the world. But the nasty part, (especially for a mom) just surprises me.</p>
<p>Well, maybe dragon (and some others) went overboard discussing the reasons for turning down USC acceptance....</p>
<p>However, some USC guys (i.e.QW553) are doing exactly the same.
This type of threads "What schools did choose over school X?" is pretty common on other forums. Nobody on the Stanford forum feels threaten by discussion that some students declined acceptance to Stanford University and decided to go somewhere else.
Here, on the USC forum, such question is considered "really stupid" (see post by QW553). Why is that?</p>
<p>TanCat, what thing did I do makes me the same like dragon? I was merely responding to his nasty comments towards USC, a defender, not offender. I never degraded UCLA for what it is, I even recommend some majors to go to UCLA instead of USC. The thing is, I felt like I know dragon's background therefore I know where he got the attitude, and why he behaved like that. And that is the exact kind of thing I dislike.</p>
<p>Let me tell this again. Your orig post is not the reason for this thread to get to the toilet. It is a fair question, and some curious minds want to know. I didn't see people here getting upset about USC being rejected. Anyway USC's yield rate is about only 30~40%, so more people rejected USC than accepting it. It's a fact, why can't people talk about it. I was calling you stupid because you could not tell why there was this "war" under this normal subject and who should be blamed for starting it. And you still don't get it now. You deserve the honor;)</p>
<p>I don't have an opinion on whether the thread should be deleted. I have just been very surprised at some of the truly mean comments on the thread. I perfectly understand rivalry between schools, but personal attacks really seem uncalled for. The thing I was MOST surprised about was moms joining in! That seems really strange to me, as I think parents should not be chiming in on low insulting comments. That's downright UNSEEMLY!</p>
<p>It is ok for me either to delete this thread or just leave it here. I mean you can't prevent gullible people from being gull. They get abundant chances in this internet era. As a trojan, we gotta grow some more skins:)</p>
<p>Some may not understand there is this little rivalry thing underneath. I didn't when I first came to US 3 years ago. In my community, UCLA is revered more than USC. For some reasons I didn't even consider UCLA, but got rejected badly by Berkeley (Grad school prestige is totally different than undergrad's, and CAL is like mecca for most of majors) . It is OK, they both are still fine schools to me, let alone I have so many friends going to CAL and UCLA, some are teaching there. </p>
<p>Starting from browsing this site, I grow dislike to bruins day by day because some are just not honest people. First it is socalpatty, who faked to be a USC alumni, has a host of family members going to USC. But she hardly knows USC at all, and wait for chances to spread lies about USC. Ever since several people here confronted her, she never appears again. Now there was this CA2006, who said his mother went to USC, and his girlfriend got a free ride to USC film school but choose to go to NYU paying 40~50K more a year simply because Tisch is a better school. And it is not coincident that CA2006 attacked USC at every chance passing by. Then there comes this dragon17. If I stayed here longer I might have a longer list.</p>
<p>Probably I am from a different culture, but it still IS baffling why people would do this, for fun? for rivalry? I have learned to take attacks from rivals for granted, since it may be part of american culture, but can you do that without faking identities, or at least without blatant lies.</p>
<p>You know when I thought about it, I kind of figured it wasn't a mom. We are just not wired like that. That makes me feel SO much better. Being new to the site, (and honestly very trusting in real life), I usually take people for what they say. QW553 I agree that the lying on CC is just confounding. I don't get it. I hadn't thought about it being part of American culture, and I sincerely hope that's not true.</p>
<p>Don't be jealous because all the USC people are rich and have porsches, jeez. Just because people @ USC have things other people can't even imagine having that doesn't mean you can call people "spoiled children." We are not spoiled children. No. We are just better than the rest of you. HA (LOL semi sarcasm)</p>
<p>Though I rather goto University of Spoiled Children than "University of Custom Lowered Acuras" or "Under Construction Los Angeles"</p>
<p>To be honest I don't care who started the flame war in this thread; however, I think it'd be best if we dropped the subject and moved on to other topics. The longer we dwell on the negativity that's been slowly overpowering the legitimate intentions of the thread, the more entangled in the bickering we'll all be. This is not to discount the CC members who are defending their positions for legitimate reasons; I just think it's best to stop contributing to the rivalry before things get out of hand. Whether or not the deletion of this thread is necessary, I honestly don't know.</p>
<p>The majority of the members of CC I've been lucky enough to meet are reasonable, intelligent, supportive people; I hope we can keep these forums to a high standard that reflects the quality of these members.</p>
<p>I have not read this site for several days. Truly bizarre! We declined several excellent schools in favor of USC, but we would never have dreamed of going to their threads to denigrate the fine students who chose to go to those schools for an infinite number of perfectly good personal reasons. Could it be that those wasting their time making negative remarks about USC on this thread are actually angry because they would in truth prefer to go to USC, but can't for some reason (e.g., financial, family pressure, etc.)?</p>
<p>Turned down USC for UC santa barbara mainly because of the financial issue. NO WAY my family can afford 30,000 a year. Oh well.</p>
<p>I feel like I am in the twilight zone...am I crazy or have both of my posts on this thread disappeared? I know my last post was not at all offenisve and I really don't think my first post was either ...I am just not wired that way. Has this happened to anyone else?</p>
<p>I have found CC to be so exceptionally informative and just plain NICE most of the time....and the USC threads are really about the best!</p>
<p>My son turned down plenty for USC. But it's also interesting to see who turned down USC for (blank.) That's it. Interesting. End of story.</p>
<p>And, hopefully, end of any nastiness.</p>
<p>PS And I'm the Bruin Mom of USC bound son...Go Marshall!!!
(Can I say it that way? It is a little easier on me!!!)</p>
<p>no, but USC turned me down.</p>
<p>TalkItUp,</p>
<p>I saw your second post here which seemed to have disappeared today for unknown reasons. It wasn't offensive at all, so I can't understand why it was removed.</p>
<p>Maybe you should check with the administrators to see if this is a technical problem.</p>
<p>Jokebook
Thanks for confirming my post was actually here! ( I thought maybe I was losing it) I am not too worried about it, it wasn't anything profound :) Now that I know someone other than me saw it.</p>
<p>I thought i saw your other post about your posts disappearing before you wrote the one that's above.. hmm odd.. O_O</p>
<p>As of 10 minutes ago, I declined Rice to go to USC! biggest decision of my life, whew!</p>
<p>I enrolled at USC, but after getting in off the Duke waitlist, I will be turning down a presidential scholarship to be a Blue Devil. I just love Duke too much to turn it down.</p>
<p>Aww! That was me with Rice. I actually came down to Houston ready to confirm my waitlist acceptance, but then after spending the day there, I realized I would have such a better college experience at USC. Congratulations though gcards1!</p>
<p>Thanks ccbouncer! I actually turned down Rice to go to USC in the first place. USC just seemed better with all the opportunities they were giving me and for what I wanted to study (business). Have a great time there!</p>