Is USC on the rise academically?

phantasmagoric
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:47:42 +0000

And some Berkeley people like to claim that it has X times the number of Harvard-level students, etc. That’s simply not the case. Some 50,000 students last year scored above a 2100 on the SAT; something like 16,000 scored above a 2250 (can’t be bothered to look the actual number up). The overwhelming majority of these students are not Caltech- or Harvard-caliber. It’s not particularly hard to enroll high-scoring students (there are so many of them), esp. when you offer them money for scoring high.