University of Southern California Top Questions

My answer would be that I'm happy that I was not told much before I came to USC. The time I took to figure my way here, to sort out the mess, to adapt to the new lifestyle was all a part of your freshman experience, and I felt those imperfect experiences may have actually made my freshman life more memorable.

How many opportunities I have for research and volunteering

To not bring a new looking bike, because it will get stolen.

I wish I had known about the relevance of real-world experience. I feel like most of my classmates including myself agree that school in general doesn't teach you enough to get you out in the real-world and prepared for a career. What is more necessary is to pick up an internship or job on the side to teach you real world lessons.

I wish I had known a little more about requirements because I would have likely had a better idea than freak out during orientation and have someone else choose. Not that the classes were terrible, but there were better options for me. I also would have liked to have known how college isn't hard academically, but time and managing it. It is so easy to underestimate what you can do with all that "free time". Lastly, I wish I knew more about the services my school offers because it's something I'm now pursuing as a sophomore.

How dominant the greek system is. While you don't have to be Greek, a large amount of the school is involved in it.

I wish I had known the level of stress and pressure placed upon students who are following Pre-Health career pathways. Competition is fierce amongst the brightest Pre-Health students in all of my science classes.

How much extra time you need to devote to studying outside of class. Yes, you expect USC to be hard but some classes have very large loads of reading that I was not expecting. Other than that, it is exactly what I expected.

I wish I had known the the school had provide various scholarship for transfer student and all the deadlines for scholarship program. Also, I wish I had known the campuse environment as well.

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