I move that USC be placed in the list of top universities!!!

[JW_Muller]

<p>I too started a thread on College Admissions, that was quickly relegated to the the obscurity of “Forum and Community Issues.”</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/community-forum-issues/633481-why-isnt-usc-cc-top-university.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/community-forum-issues/633481-why-isnt-usc-cc-top-university.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I have links for the data, at the original thread.</p>

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Why isn’t USC a “CC Top University”?
Could someone please explain why USC isn’t a CC Top University? Based on any number of measures, it has as much validity as a top university as do several others.</p>

<p>If you match USC next to other private CC Top Universities, such as Carnegie-Mellon, Emory and Vanderbilt, USC appears to have equivalent 25-75% SAT’s, and this among a much larger student body.</p>

<p>USC has significantly higher SAT’s than top CC publics UCLA, UNC and Michigan. USC’s SAT’s even edge out UC Berkeley, and no one is going to be pushing Cal off the top university list.</p>

<p>Even though the USC Subforum is relegated to the obscurity of S in the Alphabetic List of Colleges (found only after not finding USC in U or C), USC still manages to be a CC heavyweight in number of posts.</p>

<p>USC: ( 62,093 Posts | 5,696 Topics )</p>

<p>Carnegie-Mellon: ( 21,662 Posts | 2,470 Topics )</p>

<p>Emory: ( 19,964 Posts | 2,353 Topics )</p>

<p>Vanderbilt: ( 14,128 Posts | 1,777 Topics )</p>

<p>So, if there is a rationale other than inertia that USC is not a CC Top University, maybe someone can make the case, based on objective criteria. As far as I can tell, either Carnegie-Mellon, Emory, Vanderbilt, UNC, UCLA and Michigan don’t belong on the list, or USC does.

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