Q: What do Democrats and USC Trojans have in common?Muahahaha :)
A: They both blame Bush for all their problems
The entire Bush chronicles are a nasty reminder about the level of money in college sports. It is, after all, not the first time, nor will be the last time, for such stories. What I don't get is how the world of higher education and the public go on pretending that college athletics aren't about money ... Perhaps such a behavior is consistent with everything else: we don't seem to be concerned about the debt, or the war, or the power of corporations, or ....
Maybe it is time to rename the country, the United Apathy of America ... oh well ...
Anyway, back to USC, I hope their sports suck for the next few years. Why? The last time USC football was in the dumps, in the Larry Smith years (which is when I was a grad student there) and after, USC started focusing on academics. Now, USC's academic ranking has picked up like crazy. USC's academic reputation is now on par with UCLA, and its freshman acceptance is selective--though not anywhere as selective as Harvard or Stanford.
The entering undergraduate student body at USC is the most academically talented in the university’s 130-year history.I hope this is no plateau, and that the university will continue to enhance its academic standing under the leadership of the new president.
Average standardized test scores for the incoming class are in the 96th percentile. More than 85 percent of incoming freshmen were in the top 10 percent of their high school class and around 10 percent of them were valedictorians. The average GPA of the group was 3.7.
USC received 35,794 applications for 2,972 places in the fall 2010 freshman class. With this year’s applicant pool, USC’s admission rate was 24 percent.
Fight on, Trojans--in the classrooms and in the labs, that is.
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