$c Commercial???
So, I switch over to u$c at OSU after our victory over the Ducks today, and hear a commercial... "What if we could choose students with the highest character, intellect, talent and a drive for the greater good? Students whose grades and SAT's tell only a fraction of their story. What if we could chose students who could go anywhere. At u$c we can and do choose these students. In turn, they've made this university better, rising farther and faster than any other in national rankings. For that we'd like to say thank you" Then some trOJan girls says "You're Welcome" WHAT? The only way $c could be rising "farther and faster in national rankings" is because they started so low to begin with. And what rankings are they referring to? Percentage of students with criminal records? I was laughing so hard tears almost came out. Are they serious? GO BRUINS!!!
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There is also the allegation of them
monkeying around with their SAT scores to inflate the avg. SAT of their freshman class. Have heard this story for years.
To be specific
The monkeying around, at least what I heard when I was an undergrad at UCLA (back during the days of the old SAT), was that U$C was cooking the numbers. While every other school took a student’s best overall SAT (from the combined 1600), U$C was taking a student’s best score on each section and adding those two numbers to reach an “average overall” score.
To illustrate. Let’s say a high school student took the SAT three times, once as a freshman, once as a sophomore, and once as a junior, with the following scores, respectively: 600/600 (1200 overall), 780/620 (1400 overall), 740/760 (1500 overall).
At UCLA, that student’s SAT score would be considered to be 1500 (I don’t recall the UC averaged each SAT overall or if they took the highest . . . for this, I’ll assume they took the highest).
At U$C, that same student, with the same score’s would have their SAT reported as a 780/760 (1540 overall).
Now that the SAT has three 800 point sections for a total of 2400 overall, it gives the chumps at “Admissions” at Second Choice even more room to f**k around with the numbers and pretend they’re something they’re not.
The SUCsters can cook the books all they want. We need only point to one number/statistic that again shows UCLA’s domination over Second Choice:
UCLA: most applied to college in the entire country. I think the fact more kids are beating down the doors of Murphy Hall to become Bruins speaks volumes.
Not sure that every other school did it our way
but taking each SAT sitting together has been the consensus general practice among major universities.
I don't think so
UC was excepting combined scores too. My sister got in to Cal with a combined 1270 from two tests. On my first SAT I got a 1270 but I went back for a second test to improve my verbal score. I did but I also improved on math so I didn’t have to combine two tests.
Combined scores were standard practice for almost every school I looked in to back in 1994. If SC was cooking the books, they did it some other way.
Its been around for awhile
This stupid commercial has been around for about a year and a half. It mostly is just a boilerplate “our university is great” commercial but the girl at the end’s “your welcome” is the sort of genius only a lowly trojan allstar could come up with.
I hadn't seen it before
and I was in SHOCK! I know it’s a boilerplate but man, its all so untrue. The highest charachter and intelligence? Ummmm… NO!
And for that lowly trOJan all star…
I haven't seen it, but have just one question
How many times do they show their most famous alum, OJ Simpson? As many times as Cheatie Petey had him on the sidelines?
Try the experiment. Don’t set anything up, just ask people to name the person they think of when they hear u$c, and the person they think of when they hear UCLA. I asked that of my golfing buddies a month or so ago, and got 3 OJ’s and a John Wooden and 2 Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s. (Granted this was while OJ’s latest trial was getting some headlines.) But I bet if you asked 100 people at random to name the face of justsc, OJ’s name would come up a significant number of times.
The part about character is hilarious
Never mind that this is the “school” of Orenthal James “I’m Still Looking for the Real Killers in Nevada Prison” Simpson.
Who cares that it is home to some of the dirtiest, most corrupt athletic departments in the entire country.
Forget that it is the definition of lack of institutional control.
Pretend that it doesn’t turn a blind eye to agents in its locker rooms.
If you took all of the aforementioned things and pretended U$C wasn’t guilty of that (and so much more), you’d still find the “highest character” reference hilarious. Why?
Well, all of us who are attorneys had to take a stupid test called the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination. Moreover, we all had to endure at least a semester of ethics/professional responsibility (where we were told revelations such as you shouldn’t steal from your client . . . what a shocker).
And who do we have to blame? I’ll let CNN tell you:
USC’s conservative label dates to the early 1970s, when several conservative Republican alumni, known as the “USC mafia,” served on President Nixon’s White House staff or in his 1972 re-election campaign, which was later tainted by revelations of “dirty tricks” as part of the Watergate scandal.
The U$C Mafia. Watergate.
Highest character?! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
"You're welcome"
Maybe it’s just me, but that sounds very arrogant. It had a feel that she really wanted to say “You are welcome to be graced by my presence” type of attitude.
Speaking of SC ads
At my local market there is a big Lite beer display with an SC tie-in. I have heard a radio spot as well.
Wasn’t there a rule against schools having beer sponsorships due to a large portion of the students being under-aged, or is that just a common sense policy most schools adhere to?
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