USC reality show, concerns about reputation

menloparkmom
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:53:22 +0000

oh please.
Under the sun and snowdog
USC is a very different U than even 10 years ago.
Less than 17% of students join frats or sororities.
It is NOT the case that “greek life is dominant on campus”.This is an old wives tale at this point.
DS, who was accepted at many top U’s, including 2 Ivys, Chicago, Wash U, Pomona, etc, etc, chose to go to USC and has not regretted it for one moment. And no, neither he nor any of his friends there joined frats or even associated with kids in frats.
He received a great education at USC, graduated last year and is now at Caltech in a PhD program.
His former roommate is a Churchill Scholar at Oxford.
The other roommate is now at MIT.
The valedictorian is at Harvard Med School.
There are MORE National Merit Scholars at USC than at any other U except U of Chicago[ which enrolled 1 more] . Even more than HARVARD.

the USC / UCLA rivalry is alive and well as this immature video shows.
Your nephew should visit USC during one of the Explore events to see what USC is REALLY like. And as for this statement-
"maybe because the surrounding area is not so good "
the same can be and is said about U of Chicago and New Haven.
Like Chicago and Yale, there is a sketchy area south/ east of campus , but most of USC’s campus is surrounded by apts full of students.