<p>^Every single semester that I’ve been at USC, I have had at least one class with older adults who have children.</p>
<p>In my dorm freshman year, there was a 23 year old. I know a ton of super seniors and super duper seniors. You definitely would not be out of place on campus.</p>
<p>USC offers family and graduate housing… though I’ve heard it’s terrible. But the point is that it is available and USC does things to accommodate students such as yourself.</p>
<p>^^Best and worst things?
That’s really very difficult to answer. I think the best thing is the opportunities afforded to students here. You can major in practically anything. You can do research in any field if you’d like. You can study abroad all over the world. You can get a variety of internships. You can meet people from all over the country and world. (I have friends here from as far as California.)</p>
<p>The worst? I think that there’s a lot of bureaucracy you have to deal with here. It’s a large public institution so it really can’t be helped. But anyways, they’re closing the Woman’s Quad next year which is 500 beds when the waiting list for on-campus housing last year was 900. That means, the 4500+ freshmen coming on campus will take up most housing. There will only be 1000 on-campus spots for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. That isn’t very many.
Football games here are wildly popular, yet the ticketing system (which is supposedly new and improved) is extremely unfair. Students are put into a not-well-advertised lottery in the summer for tickets. If they get them then, great. If they don’t, then you have to fight every week for tickets. In addition, if the last home game is Clemson, someone can skip every other game in the season and know they have tickets to the Clemson game. A student who goes to every other game in the season but does not have guaranteed tickets may or may not get them. The loyalty system pretty much died with this.</p>
<p>Overall, I LOVE being at USC and couldn’t imagine spending my undergraduate career anywhere else. If you have any specific questions, please feel free to ask. It’s kind of hard to give a generalization because everyone is different. The things I mentioned may not even really affect you one way or another. (IE: If you’re not a sports fan or plan on living off-campus or just want to go there for the classes.) I don’t know a terrible amount about ROTC here though. I think I read that it’s grown tremendously as of late, but that’s about it.</p>
<p>Although Columbia is SUPER military friendly. Fort Jackson isn’t too far away. There are military discounts for practically everything.</p>