Cutthroat, laidback school list

drax12
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:31:21 +0000

Btw, you can subtract a good .6 gpa point from those students I cut and pasted for their uw gpa’s.



if you want to choose random high schools to choose from, i can mention my public high school up in washington state.

out of the people accepted to USC my year (2006), they were also admitted to Emory, Northwestern, Harvey Mudd, Cornell, MIT, Georgetown, Cal, UCLA, Rice, etc. my experience in washington was that only highly qualified applicants tend to apply to USC from out of state because it is viewed as a fairly prestigious school. my guess is that this is fairly common for most OOS applicants. (except for MIT and Rice they all chose USC btw)



That’s a bit anecdotal for my tastes. I would rather see a high-school database similar to PV Peninsula’s, with listing of gpa, w and uw, scores; along with acceptances, denials, for each college, etc. But most high schools don’t do that obviously.



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my friend was chem-e at USC and the class averages on exams for all the p-chem and upper div engineering courses are regularly below 60%.



There’s an engineering prof at UCLA that flunks, I think it was, 80% of the students. Indian “gentleman,” pretty (in)famous.



i just really disagree with the derogatory statements some posters have made, calling USC students “slouches” and making claims that the school would never give out failing grades because they need to keep the students “for tuition”



Noted, re, first part, “slouches”… But it was my comment that some students didn’t pick up a book weeks into the term at USC. Sentiment stated that there are some students at UCLA that do likewise. I stated that it’s pretty hard to do this at UCLA because it’s only a 10-week term and much more accelerated. You stated taht you had numerous tests with two-week spacing. I’ll state here that I’m probably “speaking” of those outside of science curricula. And it wasn’t all encompassing, not at all… but I’ll be sensitive towards this.

Second part, re, keeping students for tuition… This is true of most private colleges but unstated obviously. Many private- college educated students would readily confess this. Drops late into the term…minimal or lesser progress- towards-degree reqs…higher median/mean grades, see Ivy League, 3.5 and above, as I leave the door ajar for sentiment…a lot less competition (I like this word better), less weeding out…generally taking in students that the school is dependent on in operating budget v being ultra-competitive and flunking some out and not having that tuition…and I’m not speaking of Cal Tech for this last part.