<p>Hey! I’m from South Carolina and going to the University of South Carolina in the fall. =)</p>
<p>My school sends about one student a year to an ivy league and a lot of our students go to/are accepted to top schools. (Vanderbilt, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, WashU, UVA, W&L to name a few) That being said… these things happened:
- A girl who got into Wake Forest chose to go to Clemson.
- A girl who got into NYU chose to go to CofC.
- A girl who got into University of North Carolina, University of Virginia, and Northwestern University chose to go to Davidson.</p>
<p>I don’t think it had anything to do with money with these people. They just chose to go to a school that suited them.</p>
<p>Me, personally, I could have easily gotten into higher ranking schools, but I decided that USC was the school for me. It is in no means a bad school. It is what you make it.</p>
<p>As a freshman, I would never have seen myself at USC, but when I got to be a senior, I really changed my mind and thought that that was the school that fit my personality best and the school that offered me the most options. There are a lot of advantages to going to a huge university.</p>
<p>And BTW, USC is ranked #1 in International Business… so it does have some really good programs available.</p>
<p>But I would not recommend choosing a school based on its prestige. You need to choose a school based on your personality and what suits you best. And that’s probably going to change from freshman to senior year.</p>