<p>If you’re an in-stater for USC, you’re probably much better off heading there than Hofstra…and this is words coming from a native New Yorker. </p>
<p>It is not worth the high private school price tag from what I have heard from neighbors and friends who know about that school as it is less than a 50 minute drive from where I am in NYC. </p>
<p>Heard from a few recent full-scholarship graduates that the school views students/parents as cash cows to be milked, is mostly populated by academically average/mediocre rich Long Island kids who didn’t want to go to a lower-ranking SUNY, and that the university has been having some serious financial issues. </p>
<p>Also, check out nervoussenior10’s comments about Hofstra and other private schools in the Long Island area. His/her comments are really on the mark judging by what I’ve heard from neighbors and other New Yorkers:</p>
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