What was your reasoning for choosing USD???

student430
Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:19:58 +0000

Yea academically, it’s ranked 101 vs the mid-UC’s (UCI, UCSB,UCD) which are all ranked at 44. I don’t know how US News does the ranking but for 50k a year I better be getting some value for money…And I don’t want to blow 200k and then not get into the graduate school of my choice becasue my school wasn’t known for having hard classes. So much to worry about nowadays:( BTW, just for reference I want/wish to go to USC for graduate school hands down. I dont’ want to be a bookworm though, which is why USD appealed to me, but I don’t want to complety slouch either.