<p>Damn it! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>[The</a> Daily Bruin - Bruins beware, Trojans ranking on the rise](<a href=“http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/nov/21/ibruins-beware-trojans-ranking-risei/]The”>http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/nov/21/ibruins-beware-trojans-ranking-risei/)</p>
<p>Well at least the UCLA name is more international. Ask anyone in Asia, if they’ve heard of USC. :rolleyes:
I always thought USC was University of South Carolina until 11th grade.</p>
<p>fortunately that’s an op ed, not a fact</p>
<p>Actually they are both just as famous. If I say USC in Mandarin, almost everyone will know it. If I say it in english, then I don’t think so. But then almost everyone knows UCLA.</p>
<p>I think it’s mostly a Taiwanese thing. There are a lot of Taiwanese people in Los Angeles and a lot of Taiwanese people know of USC. I’m Taiwanese and a lot of my family knows USC too.</p>
<p>True, but there are also a lot of Koreans, Vietnamese, Chinese, (Japanese?) and other of Asians that live around Los Angeles lol. Just as many of them go to USC as Taiwanese ppl do. Why would their family not know USC?</p>
<p>Back east everyone thinks USC = South Carolina and if you do mention Southern Cal the only response you’ll get is to football. When I told friends I was applying there they said “isn’t it like ASU…big party school?” UCLA holds some credibility at least…and I doubt usc will pass ucla in the next 5 years.</p>
<p>i’d rather keep the 100k in my pockets</p>
<p>US News is considering putting in some elements of social mobility and stuff into their calculations. Considering the amount that SC students have to fork over a year, I doubt they’re facilitating much of that. I hope we can break top 25 decisively eventually though >>;;</p>
<p>when i went to china this summer, no one knew what USC was (in english)</p>
<p>good read.</p>
<p>btw, how do you say usc in chinese? -_-'</p>
<p>USC’s chase after test scores (NMSF’s earn an automatic discount) has been one of the prime reasons why is has moved up in the rankings. WashU has played a similar game.</p>
<p>While the UCs have essentially dropped participation in the NM program, perhaps its time to at least superscore the SAT.</p>
<p>USC has far less name recognition in Japan, by the way.</p>
<p>However, I doubt that USC will move up past UCLA in five years. They’re not going to manage to displace G’Town or any of the other top 25’s. There’s so much momentum in this, and it’s not like UCLA’s scores aren’t increasing at the same time.</p>
<p>USC is South California University in Chinese.
UCLA is California Los Angeles University.<br>
Pretty straightforward translations.</p>
<p>南加州大學-usc
洛杉磯加利福尼亞大學=ucla</p>
<p>^Hmm, I saw something different for UCLA then. The again, they didn’t have much room to write it in.</p>
<p>Here’s what I think. People in Asia know UCLA more becuase nobody will every say UCLA in an Asian language, it’s just too long. It’s like who says I go to the university of california los angeles? There’s not really any abbreviation for UCLA in any language. But then for USC, in Mandarin it’s “Nan Chia Tah”, which is nice and short. But then obviously the fact that UCLA has a bigger population and more Asians contribute to the fact that they are more popular in Asia. So I just think it’s these 2 factors that UCLA is more “heard of” in Asia.</p>
<p>Or maybe the fact that one of Taiwan’s most famous celebrities went to USC helped raise USC’s image haha.</p>
<p>Taiwaneseterror,</p>
<p>UCLA in Korean and Japanese is usually just hangulized and katakanized versions of the word “UCLA.”</p>
<p>I think you’re just thinking of Chinese.</p>
<p>Really? I asked my Korean roomate and he said he couldn’t think of an abbreviated Korean version of UCLA.</p>
<p>When I was at LG, people just said “UCLA” and it was well-understood.</p>
<p>I certainly know it’s the case in Japan, however. UCLA is just “UCLA.”</p>