<p>Will USC grad school prefer to take students who got their BA from USC, or are they completely impartial, and a student who got their BA at let’s say LMU has just as much of a chance as a student who got their BA at USC. In other words, do grad schools at USC, (MPW in specific) admit fully on merit (grades, letters of rec, portfolio) or does alma mater have play?</p>
<p>Thank you for answering!</p>
<p>I don’t know, but just as a note, since grad admissions happen at the “school” level and not at the university level, this answer could vary a lot between different degree programs - that is, the MPW people decide who gets admitted to the MPW program, the completely separate engineering people decide admission to the engineering grad school, etc. So you can’t really make blanket statements about “USC grad admissions”</p>
<p>Many grad schools prefer to take students from other schools.
Undergrad reputation is taken into account so keeping everything else equal a student from lmu will have a lower chance than a usc undergrad. but a student who did their undergrad at stanford (or yale or harvard or whatever) has a greater chance than a usc undergrade.</p>