I took Sample's famed "MDA 365: The Art and Adventure of Leadership" class while at USC, and one particularly memorable class session involved Sample laying out his strategy, in retrospect, for raising USC's academic profile. He said, and I paraphrase, that attracting brighter students has a compounding effect. read more
Perception catching up to reality. USC's average incoming freshman SAT score exceeded UCLA's at least as far back as 2001. read more