<p>LegacyMom:</p>
<p>If your sons would prefer USC to NU, then good for them. But to say that USC is harder to get into is really pretty laughable, and I don’t know why you think that USC has a lower acceptance rate, because it doesn’t. Northwestern’s acceptance rate (18%) is lower than USC’s (23%), and their SATs are substantially higher. You’d have to really love sports to pick USC over Northwestern, because the latter is quite clearly academically superior.</p>