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A comment on USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur Space Record. Parent comment

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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