<p>Spring admits are not unique to USC. UC Berkeley is one university that also offers spring admissions. In any event, 200 or so spring admits added to the fall class of 2800 is about 6.6% of the total freshmen class so perhaps too much is being read into it. After almost 28,000 kids will receive “sorry” letters, I just hope the few that do get the spring admit offers realize they are worthy Trojans.</p>
<p>USC’s dramatic rise in the USN&WR rankings is noteworthy and there seems to be hard feelings about such schools, I can’t imagine why. One could argue the rankings all day, including the fact that faculty-peer ratings are heavily weighted, which disadvantages rising schools while some older institutions a bit past their glory days still get high ratings on the score. But, you know, this is all beside the point.</p>