New USC President Announces $100 Million in Gifts

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Accepting several students from such a fine private high school school does not seem a negative feature to me.

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<p>I didn’t say that it was. It’s an admission policy similar to other non-elite private universities in the country. And just so you’ll know, I don’t consider UCLA (or Cal) elite either.</p>

<p>If you read my initial post, I stated in reference to all the prior posts, something to the effect:</p>

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<li>Congrats on the donations.</li>
<li>Didn’t believe the average USC incoming frosh would have an unweighted 3.8, which is top 5% generally, and at others top 10% definitely.</li>
<li>Could believe that USC reports a median/mean SAT of 2100, because of superscoring and cherry-picking, fishing, etc, for those with high scores along with a lesser regard for class rank and gpa.</li>
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<p>(Elite) Private schools have lower enrollments -> If a university accepts and enrolls many from these hss, the u would have to dip into class-rank significantly -> enrolled students from these hss at the u wouldn’t have anything near a 3.8 uw gpa being that a 3.8 would probably be a very high ranking student. Now, how they would mix with the other students from public schools and their quals would be the question. As Georgiagirl stated USC takes > 40% from private secondaries. Let’s do some simple algebra:</p>

<p>40% from privates average gpa, say, 3.5 uw (just a guess, could be wrong on the minus side)
60% from public schools, average gpa X
100% students, average 3.8</p>

<p>What gpa would public school grads need for the whole student body to average a 3.8 uw? Answer, 4.0 in the above scenario.</p>

<p>Doing the same except, the average uw gpa for private-school kids, is 3.6 -> average gpa of public school kids would have to be a 3.93 uw, which I wouldn’t see as being feasible for 60% of USC’s public-school class.</p>

<p>A 3.6 at a typical private high school would be ~ 65-70th percentile if my eyeballing statistics seems reasonable based on a normal curve (I don’t think private hss would have a flattened out curve and grade distribution would seemingly be pretty tight, no real lows like public hss, eg, 2.0’s, etc…) and a mean gpa of, say, ~ 3.4. The 3.6 could possibly where USC lives for most private hss, and I really do think this would be reasonable and at some high schools topside if they are elite.</p>

<p>Private hss would dole out more high grades, but wouldn’t have the A/P that public hss would have, so there’s a trade off - higher unweighted grades at private hss, but lower weighted for the very top and down to those who are allowed to take AP at public hss.</p>

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My student, however, did not attend a private school - hers was a very ordinary public school. I don’t know how you will interpret that (one has to assume you would feel that was a wonderful feature, since you view students from top private schools negatively), but rest assured she achieved outstanding test scores and was valedictorian of her class, as well as having many other fine accomplishments of which I am very (understandably) proud.

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<p>‘(one has to assume you would feel that was a wonderful feature, since you view students from top private schools negatively)…’</p>

<p>I don’t understand where you received that notion. I’m having to repeat myself often, but, the only thing that I could have said that might have even slightly been construed as negative towards them is my stating that they have a huge advantage in many cases buying their high sat scores becuase, again, there’s a high correlation between having wealth and scoring well. ‘Buying’ becuase the large increases in score improvement can be readily attained by, say, an SAT tutor, even if the student hasn’t really upped his/her scholastic aptitude. A person who is at the top of his/her class would naturally score better generally without the need of expensive help, so therefore he/she would show forth in a naturally high scholastic aptitude.</p>

<p>Regarding your daughter:</p>

<p>You should indeed be proud of her, especially if she’s a first generation, which is the impression I would guess by the way you speak of her. But by all means, don’t feel compelled to answer this.</p>

<p>Ellebud:</p>

<p><a href=“everyone%20knows%20that%20the%20real%20%22failures%22%20at%20LA%20prep%20schools%20go%20to%20ASU,%20Boulder%20or%20%22small%20LACs%22…not”>quote</a>

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<p>I’m not referring to the true bottom dwellers.</p>

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And, as one who graduated from UCLA and remembers well the lockstep political and social mentality, I definitely get where you’re coming from.

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<p>Lol, whatever…</p>

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But I think that one’s inability to either thank someone for the information (should it prove helpful), leave the subject alone rather and read on rather than the immediate snarky retort(s) says much more about you than the OP, USC, your education and upbring then the subject at hand.

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<p>It was posted on the general board, not USC’s. Therefore it’s open season on this post and any subsequent post propping USC. You don’t see any other posts run through unscathed when the OP chooses to prop his or her school do you?</p>