<p>@BassGuitar:</p>
<p>Let me repeat again:
“and of course, even top state schools see as their mission serving all segments of their state population, which brings down their test scores”.</p>
<p>Yet look at the percentage of high achievers from both schools, however (the LinkedIn rankings as well the WSJ ranking and Forbes alumni achievement subrankings).</p>
<p>Furthermore, it’s not as if USC is a bad school.</p>