Welcome to USC

This video made me cry, I love seeing people get to live out their dreams. I want to major in film production at USC and will be applying this year. I visited once and absolutely fell in love, I never wanted to leave, and it felt like home. Hopefully I will get to move in next fall, fight on!

It's still my dream school 🥰✌️🏈 After I finish my undergraduate work at Cal Poly Pomona #Amat,#USC,#Chargers

I am a UCLA undergrad student, but am admittedly unhappy with my decision thus far instead of attending Berkeley. I may opt to attend USC for grad school over UCLA if accepted to both....or even just go to Berkeley as I should done in the first place. I feel like UCLA has treated the students poorly in comparison to what USC students experience. Often, it is just a lack of resources more so than rudeness. Sure, UCLA generally has more academic prestige, but USC has numerous programs in the top 25 and even top 10 (including mine) and often the customization of the USC programs makes them more appealing, particularly for grad school. If you are struggling between UCLA and USC, just go to USC. You will have a better overall experience and do just fine in your professional life. Don't listen to all the overly biased UCLA folks who bash USC as being inferior. If money weren't a problem, I would transfer to USC right now.

I did a Master's and a Ph.D. At USC 1962-66. It opened my intellectual horizons. My profs were great academics and very hospitable to us foreign students. However, the funniest memory is about a group of students ( men) going to President Norman Topping and demanding that the weekend curfew on the dorms should be extended from 12 midnight to 2:00 am. Prof. Topping looked at the boys over his reading glasses and said: "boys what you could not achieve by 12 O' Clock, you would not by 2 O' Clock." This made the front page headline in the Campus paper. By the way there were no co-ed dorms at USC then and once in a while if a girl invited a man to her room ( day time only) she had to walk in front in the corridor shrieking on top of her voice: " Man on the floor, Man on the floor." To date a Sorority sister one had to appear before a "Judicial".

ever since i could say usc i have wanted to go here so far all i can do is study and pray

You'll love USC. Graduated awhile ago, the school has come so far and is improving things all the time. My first piece of advice is don't forget why your're there, to learn and experience as much as you can. Welcome to the family!

Just got my acceptance letter yesterday!!! I'm a finalist for a half tuition scholarship and I'm soo excited :D

I can’t believe this was on my recommended. I WILL ATTEND USC AND LIVE MY DREAM. I hope the same happens to all of you 😀

when your from Houston, you don't get homesick!

I'm UCLA student, and I have to say that I envy your dorm room. Oh well, I live in apartment now. Much better than any dorm. Congrats for her getting in her dream school.

I'm from North Dakota so I understand the dark and cold winters! I have only been there once and I loved it. It's way different than what I"m used to because my entire state only has about half a million people, but I loved the diversity! It was also my first time seeing the ocean which was amazing to me and I loved loved loved the weather.

Me and my friend are from UK and we are applying this year for Fall 2014 :)

Deciding whether to go here or NYU for the film program

@allyz04, USC is amongst the top universities in the United States, and perhaps even in the world. They expect grades that amount to 3.7-4.5 GPA's, not only because of the university's prestiege, but because of the high competition applicants face. Good luck!

USC is great! I attend there now for grad school and we are the best...FIGHT ON!

got accepted yesterday to USC.. might be going here next year!

Sounds good the social life for the english unis ive applied to is fare good. Do you tend to go into LA much like the city side? I was thinking about a scholarship but it will be difficult to get a golf one considering I haven't played in a year and getting to 0 handicap in less than a year will be even harder, but it's maybe worth a shot? What have you applied for? I want to study economics or econ and finance. UCLA said you need high a levels but didn't say the entry requirements, waaaaaa :(

I'm thinking of applying next year, I'm from the United Kingdom (England), is Cali really as good as everyone makes it out to be? Need some sunlight from the dark weather here!

That's so cool. I'm only still a sophomore in high school but I'm planning early and ahead. But I gotta ask, what did you do and how were your grades when you applied? I live in Hawaii and I've been living here all my life, and I can't exactly do what I want to do if I'm stuck on a rock for the rest of my life. Lol.

Argh this is making it difficult for me, the weather and everything seems so cool. What's the social life like in Cali? Is it hard to get into USC though? I want to apply for economics but in the UK we do A levels I cant find anything on the USC website about A level entry grades.