<p><a href="http://www.studentsreview.com/CA/USC_u.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.studentsreview.com/CA/USC_u.html</a></p>
<p>a very helpful site, especially if you're having difficulty choosing between universities. but for anyone, i think you'll find a lot of things said about usc and other colleges very very interesting.</p>
<p>Just so people know, sites like that are always very biased. Often people with very extreme- and most often negative- opinions will post on a site such as studentsreview. Also, you don't even have to be a student at a school to post about it. I would take everything with a grain of salt. I remember looking at that site three years ago before coming to SC, and it freaked me out. The reviews were very harsh, and I got worried about coming here. I've found that those people are in the minority with their opinions. I've never even met an unhappy person here. And, of course, there are 130 reviews of the school. 130. There are 30,000 students here, and countless alumni. Just a heads up, so that people don't take it all too seriously. You should never let a site like this to help you decide between schools.</p>
<p>Yeah, I took one glance at that site and I could tell right off the bat that some of the students who posted comments didn't even go to USC. They might possibly be bitter rejectees. I don't belief half of the stuff they say; I can tell that many of the student reviews are very biased. All the negative comments haven't changed my mind one bit about USC.</p>
<p>How truthful is that site?</p>
<p>not very true at all...</p>
<p>listen, let me bring your heads back down to planet earth:</p>
<p>the marshall curve sucks, i know. listen to me when you read this, really listen: the more people successful alums i meet, the more and more i realize that GRADES DO NOT MATTER IN LIFE. did u get that? i could explain the reasoning behind such a bold statement, but that would ential me having to write a novel, which i may do ata later time. now, back to the marshall curve...if you are biz student interested in grad school, then they are really only two kinds oif grad schools you will really be interested in: b-school and law school (y would you wanna do med school after studying biz?) i have seen the processes for both, my cousin went to ucla's anderson school for mba and my current g/f will be attending harvard law next fall. lets briefly discuss both:</p>
<p>b-school- my cousin graduated from uc irvine with a 3.3 gpa and 580 gmat score with no impressive ec's. yet he just wrapped up his graduate education at ucla's prestigious anderson school of biz. 'how?' you say? very simple, my frend....its called 'work experience'. dont expect to get admissions to ANY bschool without it. atlaeast 5 yrs, minimum. dont believe me? fine pick up any bschool app for a prestige bschool program. look at the essays you wiil have to write. there will be around 5 short essay questions that say something like, what have you learned from your last job (not school, JOB), what was the most difficult problem you faced in your last job(thats right, JOB), job this, job that. bschools seek to foster managerial growth from individuals, but you NEED practical experience in your field or you will not be able to manage in your field. the avg mba student is around 28 yrs old, with atleast 5 yrs work experience. my cuz graduated at 30. so what did he do to be so special? he was a SENIOR tech consultant at microsoft by age 25, a position most at microsoft dont reach until 45-50, in fact he bossed 45-50 yr olds ffrom haravrd, yale, mit, cal tech, you name it. how did some punk form uc irvine accomplish all that? very simple, people listened to him. he was extremely sociable and a great communicator. great listener too. he was 'middle management material' so to speak. and thats what supplemented his low gpa and gmat score. o, btw, a high gmat score suppliments a low gpa too. gm,at is CUPCAKE, my g/f scored 680 on her first try with no practice. oh ya, if you studied biz as an undergrad and are planning to goto b-school as grad student, you obviously are not very bright. you wanna know what a grad b-school education is? its an undergrad b-school education without ge;s and electives. still doubt me? my cousin and i often used the very same text books for similar subjects...imagine that. check for yourself. why would you spend 4 yrs studying biz and then go back to study some more? u didnt get it the first time? why arent there a more bschool majors applying? oh ya, b/c they dont need it, thats why they get rejected. who needs a bschool education more, a biz major or an engineering major? when you get on with your careers youll really find ut how pointless grad school is. seriously, i wanna give up and PAY MONEY to go back to school and learn what i already know rather than working in the field and advencing my career and MAKING MONBEY for 2 yrs. smart. bschool apps are down, btw, so its getting less competetive, good for you.</p>
<p>law school: my g/f is going to harvard law, she was acepted to every top 20 program she applied too, pending yale. yes in know the hell of law shcool apps. i also know what it takes. my gf had a 3.7 lschool gpa and 173 lsat score. every book we read together about law school admissions stated pretty much the same thing: lsat score is the deciding factor, about 90%. gpa, essays and experience are 2nd and 3rd 4rth respectively. an excelent lsat score will more than suppliment a poor gpa. check out the ranges for law school admits, its wild. from 3.0-3.9 for some schools. its b/c lsat supplimented those low ballers. last is a VERY challenging test, but i think law schools realize it as the best 'ruler' for judging applicants. again, the avg law school applicant is around 30. dont plan on looking very competitive out of college unless you have my g/f's stats. in fact, in her lsat prep course, she was the only college student. oh ya, she also graduated in only three yrs, she will be sttending haravrd before she truns 21, ha. now let me tell you about what i have learened about law school. my girlfriend and i did the smart thing by talking to as many lawyaers as we could. they all said the same thing: 'dont become a lawyer, or you will regret it'. hmmmmm mmmmmmk, why? 'b/c it sucks'. most of them were under payed and over worked. its true, the poor suckers are. so far, law school is not in my near future, unless i can get a 173 lsat score and get into harvard. the only reason my gf is doing is b/c she hated her undergrad experience and hopes to compensate with a 'real' education. plus, how could you turn down haravrd law? law school apps are down as well.</p>
<p>in my frat, we have a little saying: 'dont let school get in the way of your education'</p>
<p>i couldnt have said it better myself.</p>
<p>also, nyu implements the very same curve marshall does. take a look at their reviews...no negative commenets of any such curve.</p>
<p>also, a lot of kids are complaining about the pretentious greek system... well, 70% of USC's population is non-greek, that means you have something in common with 70% of 16000 undergrads if your not greek...figure it out.</p>
<p>Oh no no no, that site is the worst site you could ever go to. I really doubt that many of those reviews were written by people who have spent more than a day on campus...</p>
<p>yikes! sorry guys! i thought it actually had a lot of positive things to say, mostly everyone gave positive grades, and i was discounting the obviously bitter entries. i didn't mean to offer a negative and untruthful site. sorry!</p>
<p>yeah, be wary of sites like this. I didn't know about this site up until now, but it looks like the system is pretty open, so a lot of other students from other schools (like UCLA) can post false information.</p>
<p>If you want an example of biased, try looking up USC on UrbanDictionary.com. Then look up UCLA. That's a site where we're not well liked for some reason.</p>
<p>I read the info on this site and on urbandictionary.com and didn't come to the conclusion that UCLA students wrote the comments! Get a life. Not everyone see's USC through your rose colored glasses. There are good and bad points to USC. The majority of you attend USC because you were rejected by your 1st choice, most of the time that was Berkeley or UCLA.
By the way, I was accepted to USC. It's my safety.</p>
<p>CA2006: "The majority of you attend USC because you were rejected by your 1st choice, most of the time that was Berkeley or UCLA."</p>
<p>What evidence do you have to support this statement? If you read earlier threads, there has been much talk about this, and the acceptance rates for UCLA and USC are nearly identical (in fact, USC's is LOWER). I personally was accepted to Cal, UCLA, and USC, as were many people on this board. There are so many differences between a public and a private school (especially one as great as USC) that many would choose USC over the two you mentioned any day. Some didn't even apply to the UCs.
In fact, a lot of students who were rejected from USC are going to UCLA. This is the opposite of what you're saying.</p>
<p>As you said, there are good and bad points to USC. Sure, just as there are to any school! I don't agree with your statement and there is no evidence to back that up except past stereotypes about the
schools. But the times, they are a'changin.</p>
<p>CA2006, obviously an outsider who does not attend USC will berate it all they could. Why don't you come attend some classes, as I guarantee you will change your outlook.</p>
<p>I hate it when people think they know more than they really do :mad:</p>
<p>Oh, and to prove your point wrong, I was accepted to every school I applied to. And I turned down UChicago and UVa, two schools ranked higher than USC on USNews ranks, for USC.</p>
<p>Haha, I was really scared when I read those at first, but then I realized that the people who weren't saying you would get raped and mugged every second (yeah right) weren't even complaining about my intended major. In fact, several of the negative reviews actually mentioned that cinema/comm school is good, but everything else sucks. I like the fact that even in an overwhelmingly negative comment I still see things I like about the school!</p>
<p>yeah... everything bad was about Marshall.</p>
<p>and use common sense: youll get raped if you WALK ALONE AT 2AM</p>
<p>I never understand posts like this. They just show now naive people are. I turned down Berkeley to come here, and I didn't apply to UCLA because I didn't like it there. </p>
<p>And of course not everyone at USC is in love with it. You're not going to find 100% satisfaction at any school. But sites like that have a concentration of unhappy students, so we were just trying to warn people that they do not represent the entire student body correctly.</p>
<p>amen sister.</p>
<p>got into usc and ucla...picked SC, duh.</p>
<p>"trojan for life, bruin for 4 years," right?
kidding. totally kidding. ;)</p>
<p>"trojan for life, bruin for 4 years."</p>
<p>nice, kristiina.</p>
<p>I was just on that site...and pretty much scared sh**less about the mugging and crime...is it really that bad? When I visited, the campus itself was filled with wandering students...no homicidal psychotic bums...</p>
<p>haha my dad told me that one!! </p>
<p>and just be smart, that's all.</p>
<p>hmm, which would you rather believe: your own experiences from WALKING AROUND CAMPUS or a website filled with anynomous comments from possibly COMPLETE STRANGERS WHO MIGHT NOT EVEN GO TO USC (or worse, they go to UCLA).</p>
<p>USChicka is right. Even I've found aspects of USC that I wish were different. But I don't think going to a different college would've fixed everything.</p>