Why Do So Many CC Posters Dislike USC?

gyrase777
Sat, 26 May 2018 17:58:59 +0000

Going back to the OP, I suspect USC attracts many bashers because of the attitude that USC defenders here promotes, which can be interpreted, rightly or wrongly, as this: “we are a rich private school, with rich students and alumni; therefore we deserve to be up there in prestige along with Stanford and the rest of them”. It’s a sense of entitlement based on the flawed belief that somehow money buys prestige. There are many other richer schools than USC that do not provoke the same animus. My personal example is the University of Notre Dame (to which my daughter got accepted but did not attend because she liked UCLA more), ranked higher than USC and much much wealthier. Yet ND doesn’t give off the same arrogant vibe. It is a humble school.