USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur Space Record

Re:USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur S... by potato3732842 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:04AM (#42307637)

>Their main competitive advantage

Their advantage is institutional buy in and resource allocation.

A collegiate team that has to piss a huge fraction of their man hours on overhead tasks and fundraising has no chance of success.

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Re:USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur S... by jeffbee on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:11AM (#42307725)

Isn't their main advantage that every student at USC is rich AF? It's one of the wealthiest student bodies in the land.

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Re:USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur S... by asdff on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @12:28PM (#42308683)

At schools like that a pretty decent amount of students are on partial or full rides from scholarship or financial aid fwiw.

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Re:USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur S... by jeffbee on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @12:41PM (#42308840)

Somewhat but it's still such a wealthy student body that if everyone in the photo was from a family worth millions that would not even be a very unlikely statistical anomaly.

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Re:USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur S... by asdff on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @11:52AM (#42319350)

Apparently at USC the proportion of people on some form of aid is over 2/3.

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