Did you get a vibe about USC

ArtsandLetters
Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:18:10 +0000

My daughter did. She’d met a recruiter at her high school and that lit the spark. She and her dad then did a road tour and visited five colleges in the area over several days . The affinity was pretty immediate. After acceptances we narrowed her choices down to two and visited the “other” campus first. There we met a student and parent who’d been at a USC admitted students reception on the East coast. Both girls liked what they saw and said they would have been happy at “the competitor’s” campus It was smaller, intimate and had a fabulous dedicated film building not open to other students on campus. Two days later I saw the same parent and child at USC during Explore and the father looked around and said “it’s a done deal, huh?” and I said - yep - the other school is now toast.

I really think it comes down to not every campus is right for every person. Sometimes you feel the vibe. Sometimes you don’t. Which is a valid way to figure out where you belong.