|
There is nothing wrong with what Sam Lee did, it is great that he pointed those facts and figures out so that USC won't do it again and have the ranking it is supposed to have.
Another thing about USC that I feel to be really suspicious is their Undergrad Acceptance rate in US news which it is 25.3%. This is lower than school such as Carnegie Mellon (28%) and about the same as Johns Hopkins University (24.3%). In my opinion, Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins are far more selective than USC. I am not sure whether USC is generous to international students or not.
There were around 20 students from my country who applied last year to USC which I know of, only around 5 got rejected and most of the people who got in were just above average students (SAT in the range of 1700-1900). Out of these people, barely any one got into JHU and CMU. USC in the eye of students from my high school is a relatively easy university to get in comparing to other schools with similar acceptance rate and ranking as USC. So is it easy to get in just for International Students or US Citizens as well? Maybe they accept very few US citizens to make up for the amount of international students they accept to be able to result in 25.3% acceptance rate.
|