<p>University of Southern California is actually rather notorious for having snobby, stuck up kids. They have huge chips on their shoulders because many USC students were rejected from UCLA and Berkeley (and Stanford of course). So USC kids tend to degrade other schools that are lower ranked than them in order to inflate their own ego and make themselves feel like they belong to the elite crowd. USC students and alumni have a very elitist attitude and believe that they are truly an elite university that rivals the Ivy League. USC students and alumni also have this twisted mentality that making fun of lower ranked schools somehow means they will be accepted as elite. </p>
<p>Some USC alumni I know personally even claim that USC is on par with Stanford (they constantly tout Stanford AND USC as the Ivy League schools of the West Coast).</p>
<p>Boston University students are probably the unhappiest bunch of kids I’ve met. They’re not mean per se and certainly not elitist, but they have even bigger chips on their shoulders. In a way, I feel bad for BU students. Boston University isn’t really considered an elite university at all; the problem though is that it’s a very expensive school yet their academics and brand name reputation really are not all that much better than your local state school. A Boston University graduate will not have a leg up against his state university competition.</p>
<p>Boston University has actually always been seen rather pejoratively as a school with an “Ivy League price tag, but community college educational value.” </p>
<p>In terms of ROI, Boston University is probably the worst out there. Some may argue George Washington University has a lousy ROI (again, another overpriced school with an academic reputation that isn’t even better than University of Maryland), but at least GW has excellent internship opportunities and a decent alumni network (so I hear).</p>