Help!!!! Which university should I choose

dblgraddad
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 03:19:04 +0000

While I don’t disagree with WWWard’s first post, both CADreamin and WWWard’s second posts oversimplify and miss the point of those earlier posts, which were not just complaining about not getting season tickets (which were actually still available the next week - just blacked out that gameday) but pointed to the $200 ticket charge and game day blackout as indications of a school that puts the business of its football program as paramount. In our view school sports should be about the students and the fact that tickets are highly sought after by the public should have nothing to do with making them available to current students - many private schools do so for free - such as Tulane - which was the school that as being discussed in that previous post. The public isn’t attending the school at $60K+ tuition and then being charged on top of that for tickets in a student section that excludes the public anyway. Likewise, the point was the dominating nature of the football obsession at USC and the similar dominance of USC social life by Greek life. I fully admit to being one of those who object to college sports programs that function primarily as a professional-sports feeder business. I also object to a Greek program that fractures the incoming Freshman class by conducting rush even before the first week of classes. In my view, permitting the Greek system to do so is abdicating what I see as the school’s obligation to foster a student community, rather than cede that role in a significant manner to the Greek organizations. Many if not most private schools appropriately restrict rush to second semester for that reason. While both responding posts point out the virtues of the large school-big sports program format at USC, I have seen posts elsewhere on this site disparaging USC as a regional school with a reputation based primarily on its football obsession to the exclusion of academics, not to mention its reputation as the “University of Spoiled Children.” Unfortunately, despite the school’s strides to improve the academic standing of the school, the traits that gave rise to that reputation seem still apparent. As the responding posters point out, some people prize these attributes. My post here merely points out that the same experience and education can be had at the better large state schools for less money.