<p>"Oh wait--- weren't you the one that blew up at someone who said that Pitzer was a good school in comparison to Scripps? That Pitzer kids weren't very smart or hard-working and that you were insulted that they would be compared to Scripps? I think it was you. So you get over it."</p>
<p>If you'd read the post on the Pitzer board, and the ones following, you would have noticed that my roommate made that comment, not myself. I have met some amazing kids from Pitzer and have a lot of respect for the vast majority of them (just like I have a lot of respect for the vast majority of Scripps students, though not all of them).</p>
<p>"Since you're from a Claremont --Scripps-- I doubt you know what it's like to have people always criticizing and deriding your school-- to your face. So maybe it's harder to "get over it" than you are able to imagine." </p>
<p>On the contrary. Do you know what it's like to have no one know your school? Or to think that you are studying marine biology at the Scripps Institute in San Diego? People often look down on me for turning down more "elite" colleges to attend Scripps. They think that Scripps is either a community college or a haven for rich daddy's girls. They don't think it has a strong academic program, or see it as a competitive liberal arts college comparable to top women's colleges on the east coast (even though it is). None of the assumptions are true, yet that's the reality of the situation. I don't particularly like it but I get over it.</p>
<p>"Sure there are great and bad things about every school. But I don't see any other school's face getting repeatedly ground into all the "bad" like USC does."</p>
<p>I think that as a soon-to-be USC student your radar only detects negative information about USC. If you looked around, everyone complains about bad parts of every school. It is quite possible that USC gets the short end of the stick because of the strong University of California system, but many, many schools get railed on for some reason or another.</p>
<p>"I didn't know caring to inform people of a few of their misguided opinions was considered flaming. In fact, I thought it was rather grown-up of me to take the effort to explain why certain ignorant opinions were wrong."</p>
<p>If that's what you were really doing, then I would believe you. But you keep picking fights with people and almost demanding that they believe what you tell them. I think that some of the points you bring up are good, but many are just bait or off-the-wall enough to strike a nerve.</p>
<p>I don't mean to be offensive or degrading or anti-USC or harsh. I'm just stating my opinion, just as you have been doing throughout the thread.</p>