<p>I have a dream, blah, blah, blah. College is not about taking an assembly line worth of courses to obtain a degree. If you want to obtain a degree and nothing more, go to Phoenix.</p>
<p>schools like USC, Stanford another good private schools offer high achieving students an opportunity to experience 4 years of studying, maturing and interacting with both students and professors to achieve a well rounded and excellent education. the experience a student obtains as a freshman at an elite private school like USC cannot be replicated at a community college or correspondence school like Phoenix. that is why going to college right after high school is so critically important for a serious high school student.</p>
<p>to those who cannot afford or otherwise attend a four year school, the California public college system offers them places to achieve their goals. USC is not public and has no obligation to cut its classes in half between transfers and regular admittees. USC should not copy itself after the University of California. USC should reserve itself only for high school students and a very small number of exceptionally worthy transfer students, most of whom are from regular four year colleges.</p>
<p>if you truly must go to USC, then go there for graduate school. but don’t claim that simply because you are a transfer student from Community College, you are on par with those who went to USC directly from high school. unless, of course, none of your credits are transferred and you basically start from the same basis as USC freshmen.</p>
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