<p>orangeish, my child loves USC. Move out was today and she was sad.
After two semesters however she burned out of premed. Biology was going okay but chemistry not as much. I haven’t gotten the sense USC is cut-throat competitive as far as the students who are aiming for medical school (unlike UCLA where she also was admitted, and where we heard current students tell us is definitely that way). Premed is a lot of work, and hard, and it only gets harder. There is a lot of support and a dedicated team for prehealth advisement. But as others have said, be prepared to focus on your grades to the exclusion of all else.</p>