Why Do So Many CC Posters Dislike USC?

simba9
Sat, 26 May 2018 07:13:45 +0000

Please re-read the brilliant comment #4. USC has long been one of the most hated universities in the country. Many people associated with rival schools hate seeing it rise up through the rankings, so they feel the need to convince themselves, and others, that the rankings aren’t justified.

USC’s endowment is almost double the size of UCLA’s, yet it only manages to tie UCLA and UCB for 21st place in the latest US News ranking. How pathetic is that?

Public universities don’t need to focus on endowments the way privates do, because the publics get taxpayer money. Up until the last six or seven years, when it started a large fundraising drive to raise $6 billion, USC has only had a modest endowment. The UCs have had much more money available to them than USC has had.

That said, I do often cringe when alumni, or parents of alumni, work so hard to puff up the school to others. We’ll know USC has arrived when the people associated with it have enough self-confidence in the school not to feel the need to do that.