<p>I apologize if my perception hurt your feelings or sounds wrong. Of course, USC does not want only “rich” kids. The university impresses me as looking for a wide variety of highly intelligent kids interested in different areas of study from around the world. What I meant to say is that there appears to be enough wealthy people in California to be able to afford USC education despite the terrible economy. I did not intend my statement to mean that USC only wants rich kids. My husband and I started out buying a very small two bedroom house on a half lot. Despite my working two jobs, and my husband working as a full time engineer, we decided that we just could not save enough money to buy a 3 bedroom house and moved out of state. Thank you for correcting me that Californians are all millionaires is an incorrect assumption, although I wonder how it is that starter homes are asking over one million dollars.</p>