<p>drax12</p>
<p>Starting a post describing USC as “score hungry” exposes you as a ■■■■■ before one has a chance to critique what you said. Grade inflation in HS is rampant. I expect a study of private vs. public high schools, especially in California, would show substantially greater grade inflation in public high schools. Objective test scores become an equalizer.</p>
<p>Having read some of your other posts, your antipathy for USC and identification with UCLA is clear. Leaving bias for a moment,</p>
<p>you provide data from one public high school and attempt to generalize to the 41,000 applicants to USC and I believe about 60,000 to Berkeley. You also draw unwarranted conclusion about admission to USC, Berkeley and UCLA. </p>
<p>Any conclusions from such an inadequately small and unrepresentative sample would be unwarranted. There are likely numerous departments offering statistics, methodology and research design courses at UCLA that might be of interest to you in forming your future arguments.</p>