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A comment on L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal. Parent comment

Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by HighValuation on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:36PM (#19803286)
If you aren’t familiar with the US education system, it’s a school ranked in the top 20 with an 11% acceptance rate, only twice as high as Stanford’s with a body 4x as large. It's a large school with a massively beneficial and incestuous network. Based on LinkedIn numbers, 1 out of 4 people in SV that didn't graduate from Stanford went to USC. Go around talking misinformation about that school in particular and see what wonders it does for your career.
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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by cycrutchfield on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:43PM (#19803328)
Top 20 in letting applicants bribe coaches to get them in, maybe. Any rag with USC as a top 20 university isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by HighValuation on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:50PM (#19803383)
Well I went to Berkeley, it’s questionable why we’re even ranked in the top 25 with an acceptance rate 30-40% higher than UCLA or USC this year whom like you said, don’t deserve to be in the top 20. Imagine what it would be without EECS. Berkeley grads need to pay attention to what’s happening with the school, it may be the only college in Californi where applications have been going down for the past 3-4 years.
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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by jwilbs on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:00PM (#19803452)
Google says the acceptance rate is 17%. Would love to see your source on 25% of non-Stanford alumni SV people being from USC. Anecdotally, I’ve met one.
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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by asdff on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @10:20PM (#19803983)
Google cites the rate from 3 years ago. From the horses mouth on the 11%:

https://dailytrojan.com/2019/03/28/usc-fall-acceptance-rate-...

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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by awad on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @10:52PM (#19804177)
Not sure where you are getting that wild number. There are 4,206,862 people in SF Bay Area on LinkedIn and 28,676 have USC listed on their profile. That's....not 1 in 4.
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