<p>To me, its a real toss up. Ill start with the cons of you coming to USC. </p>
<p>I doubt that you’d find yourself as comfortable at USC as you seem to be at UC Berkley. Berkley is heavily liberal; USC is split 50/50. You’ll meet die hard republicans just as often as bleeding heart liberals. That’s one reason the Occupy movement failed here: that doesn’t work when only 50% agrees with you, and a small fraction of that will join you. </p>
<p>You also said that you don’t care about sports or school spirit, but thats an integral part of being a USC student. Now, you can ignore all that stuff, but you’d be missing out on a lot. Just for an example, and because you mentioned Occupy Berkley, this last week (from the USC-Oregon game until USC-UCLA) Tommy Trojan and the Campus Center have been camped out by students. These students were on Tommy watch, protecting the statue and showing school pride. This went on 24/7. Occupy USC, on the other hand, lasted maybe 2 days, and didn’t ever reach a night shift. </p>
<p>That said, USC offers much more than Berkley in terms of outreach to at-risk community. We never bus in or house at-risk kids, mainly because the at-risk neighborhoods we work with are within walking distance, not even 5 minutes away. I live across the street from a low-income elementary school. You’d probably have more opportunity to work with outreaching at USC than any where else. </p>
<p>If you really want to talk, PM me.</p>