USC vs. Washington U. in St. Louis?

blbk
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:36:28 +0000

Also, I say think really hard about where your daughter wants to be post-graduation. For me, I knew I wanted to be in California. I was a shy engineering asian male student who went to USC. I did consider UCLA (but didn’t have the program that I wanted to study) and Berkeley (did not apply). I was able to use USC’s on-campus recruiting to land a six figure job in finance in Cali. Sure, Berkeley has more prestige and I REALLY don’t like the image of USC being some party school full of rich jocks (I was on a pell grant = poorest household income), but the perception is slowly changing. I landed a dream job that I love so I can’t say anything bad about the opportunity USC provided for me.