My family doesn't care for USC, and not just because of our half-dozen Stanford alumni.
My older son and I were discussing his college preferences and he listed half the UC's, Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Princeton and Georgetown. I said, "what about USC?" He screwed up his face, and said "I would literally rather attend a JC."
Four years later, his younger brother and I were returning from a tournament, and I said, "hey, why don't we visit USC? It's a good school." We parked and walked around for eleven minutes (by my watch, I had deposited for an hour at the parking meter), at which point he turned and started to head back to the car. I said, "we're almost at the School for Public Policy, would you like to see it?" Without breaking stride, he looked over his shoulder and said "You can go see it, if you want to. I'm not going here."
I have a very accomplished cousin who attended and was on the Dean's list at USC for one year, and absolutely hated it. I asked him why, and he said "I'll give you just one example. I was doing some photography work for the Daily Trojan. One of the sororities had a fundraiser for overseas child factory laborers. Their fundraising vehicle of choice? Without irony, their method of gathering funds was a fashion show...with clothing likely made by overseas child factory laborers." He transferred to Reed in Oregon, then grad school in HEC Paris, and Yale. He's founder of multiple Silicon Valley companies.
Without going into too much detail, there's a black sheep in our family related through marriage. All three of her kids attended USC...of course.
My older son and I were discussing his college preferences and he listed half the UC's, Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Princeton and Georgetown. I said, "what about USC?" He screwed up his face, and said "I would literally rather attend a JC."
Four years later, his younger brother and I were returning from a tournament, and I said, "hey, why don't we visit USC? It's a good school." We parked and walked around for eleven minutes (by my watch, I had deposited for an hour at the parking meter), at which point he turned and started to head back to the car. I said, "we're almost at the School for Public Policy, would you like to see it?" Without breaking stride, he looked over his shoulder and said "You can go see it, if you want to. I'm not going here."
I have a very accomplished cousin who attended and was on the Dean's list at USC for one year, and absolutely hated it. I asked him why, and he said "I'll give you just one example. I was doing some photography work for the Daily Trojan. One of the sororities had a fundraiser for overseas child factory laborers. Their fundraising vehicle of choice? Without irony, their method of gathering funds was a fashion show...with clothing likely made by overseas child factory laborers." He transferred to Reed in Oregon, then grad school in HEC Paris, and Yale. He's founder of multiple Silicon Valley companies.
Without going into too much detail, there's a black sheep in our family related through marriage. All three of her kids attended USC...of course.
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