<p>To reject USC’s prominent status is to reject reality… No, it isn’t on Cal’s level yet (though a few programs are!), but neither is it a third-tier-toilet.</p>
<p>And I apologize if the vast majority of my posts portray me as a USC ■■■■■; I think it just appears that way as often my posts are in defense of a USC program or the school itself. You’ll never find me advocating that one should choose USC humanities or USC liberal arts over either of the top UC’s. In my Jeopardy! Teen Tournament episode where I was interviewed by Alex – this is before I visited USC – Trebek, all I spoke about was the strength of UCLA is virtually every academic discipline, leading Alex to say. Berkeley and LA are fantastic, amazing schools that, especially in the case of UCLA, often do not get the recognition they deserve on the East Coast. Also, UCLA’s meteoric rise form being founded in 1919 (or was it '21) is in my opinion, the greatest feat in American Higher Education. I have enormous respect for it.</p>
<p>I simply take offense to comments such as “UCLA is KING of it’s domain,” because no, UCLA is not lightyears ahead of USC as many would like to think. And to call it small and mostly regional when it’s 31,000 students (comparable to Berk) and has the highest enrollment of international students of ANY American U? </p>
<p>Statistics are statistics, facts are facts, and I use these to try to get people to understand that the historic disparity between the two school’s prestige has significantly narrowed, especially very recently, to a point where one really has to consider the program/major. </p>
<p>And for the record, had I gotten into Berkeley, I would’ve chosen it for Haas. But in the meantime, I’m damn proud to say “Fight On!”</p>