<p>[USC</a> - Commencement - Commencement Speaker](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/specialevents/commencement/speaker.php]USC”>http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/specialevents/commencement/speaker.php)</p>
<p>I’ll be back.</p>
<p>His daughter, Katherine, is a freshman at SC. She graduated from the Brentwood School.</p>
<p>I guess this proves that USC is totally better that the decimated UC system. Note: I didn’t just include the other school across town. Political correct: Send your child to a UC. Educationally correct: Send you child to the best school possible. (and Brentwood is a TOP private prep school). :)</p>
<p>wow, that’s awesome!</p>
<p>Regarding the UC system, were you aware that Michelle Obama is speaking to the first graduating class at UC Merced?</p>
<p>So? Are her daughters planning on enrolling in the future?</p>
<p>ellebud:</p>
<p>I wouldn’t put my money on that! I read that the students had an email writing campaign to convince her to come.</p>
<p>I give the kids of Merced many points for initiative. However (since you live in California) we are all aware of how bad public education (k through 12, college and university) truly is. Many kudos to Katherine and SC for mutual selection. It is a tragedy that California education, once a hallmark of our state is in such disrepair. (My kids attended public school btw, albeit a good district. The district is good, but not nearly as good as it was when I went to the same school.)</p>
<p>My daughter, a USC freshman, said that her largest lecture hall is around 200 people. Her friends who go to UCLA sit with 1,000 other people. What a shame!</p>
<p>In the meantime, I’m thrilled for the class of '09 at USC. What an exciting graduation they will have!</p>
<p>^ I attended a public California high school and I am quite jealous of my peers who attended private boarding schools.</p>
<p>The schools raised them on proper values such as integrity, fairness, honor, and respect. I think this is something you can’t put a price tag on.</p>
<p>Watch it on youtube:</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Gov. Schwarzenegger Delivers Commencement Address at USC](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ZeIVPe5dg]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ZeIVPe5dg)</p>
<p>@ellubud:I guess this proves that USC is totally better that the decimated UC system. Note: I didn’t just include the other school across town. Political correct: Send your child to a UC. Educationally correct: Send you child to the best school possible. (and Brentwood is a TOP private prep school).</p>
<p>Did you confirm that his daughter was NOT rejected from UC’s? It is way easier to buy your way for elite folks in private universities. Does George Bush going to Yale ring a bell for you?</p>
<p>USC has a good history of helping protect the privacy of kids & family of celebrities…perhaps that is a consideration. Although, I don’t know if there are any issues with that in the UC system, I know there are celeb kids who go to UCLA also.</p>
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<p>I’m pretty sure there aren’t any classes at UCLA over 500. Only a few are over 300.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - UCLA = OWNED!!](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzndVHWC0Q]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzndVHWC0Q)</p>
<p>Check it out.</p>
<p>U.S. News Faculty Student Ratio: Using 07 data</p>
<p>UCLA 1 to 16
USC 1 to 9</p>
<p>Username: If you are at all familiar with Los Angeles prep/public schools you would know that kids who graduate from Brentwood have the grades/scores/and connections to go anyplace. Their only “problem” is that the kids are competing against each other for spots in the elite private schools. (ex: There could easily be 20 kids in the graduating class with perfect gpas and outstanding test scores. Brentwood does NOT grade inflate btw. Harvard, for example, does not want to say “We selected the number 25 kid in Brentwood’s graduating class…we want only top five.” No bragging rights here.) By definition I would imagine that 95% of their student body qualifies for the UC system.
And I wouldn’t hesitate to say that the govenor’s daughter fits nicely into that percentile.</p>
<p>I will add that my children did NOT go to Brentwood, nor did we apply there. If they had gone private it would have been to Harvard/Westlake. Brentwood has far too much academic pressure for my taste.</p>
<p>Our daughter’s back up to USC was a UC system school. She would have gone there and gotten a fine college education if USC hadn’t worked out. Fortunately with scholarships etc., the cost difference between the two was doable for us. </p>
<p>It is just undeniable that there are benefits to attending USC or any well-respected private college. Class sizes, more personal attention, scheduling ease, fewer grad school instructors…the list could go on and on. </p>
<p>Brentwood is a superb school. To suggest the governor’s daughter didn’t rightfully qualify for admission to USC is mean, meritless and a worthless assertation.</p>
<p>BTW Username: To compare a current USC admission to a Yale admissions of a middle aged man is nonsense. (I would say something stronger but I think you get the point.) Whether GW deserved to get into Yale…decades ago…is a moot point. IF you want to discuss whether people who have money/power/influence have a leg up, in school admissions, in job search, in admissions to private clubs whatever…we can talk about it on a GENERAL forum. But the facts are these: The young lady went to one of the best prep schools in the United States. You aren’t privy to admissions decisions but since Brentwood gets rid of students who aren’t succeeding we can assume that she did very well there. She applied to schools. She got in. Get over it.</p>
<p>ellubud, IMHO, the only one talking nonsense here is you. The way I see it is on two accounts: (i) I read the posts. username is not saying that Governor’s daughter got in UC or not. Merely asking you if you know whether or she got into a UC. I think that is a fair question. I for one got into USC but got rejected by Berkeley and UCLA. So I do not take it for granted that her UC admission was guaranteed. (ii) You bring up unnecessary points in the commencement thread. The thread is on a special guest that a fine school like USC is getting. So just enjoy and celebrate that. But instead, you drag UC’s and California economy into it. You could have started a new thread on it (plenty of those already around). When username questions you, you want to bail out and discuss celebrity admissions in a different thread. GW’s admission into Yale is quite relevant. So maybe you should get over that some people buy their education in private universities.</p>
<p>I was admitted to Berkeley and didn’t even apply to UCLA – still waiting on USC. Remember how subjective these things are.</p>