Is USC on the rise academically?

menloparkmom
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:40:14 +0000

This quote from Nikias’s 2011 faculty address jumped out at me:

“Our freshman class has three times the number of Caltech-caliber students that Caltech’s freshman class has! This is an extraordinary development. Caltech enrolls some 200 freshmen each fall. Meanwhile, USC enrolls some 550 students with the same SAT scores and grade point average as Caltech’s freshman class.”

[Annual Address to the USC Faculty | Office of the President](http://www.president.usc.edu/speeches/annual-address-to-the-usc-faculty/)