RightAwaySir
No sorry, I meant USC feels like it supports its students all around as in both the undergrad and grad student population will support anyone who went there based on the school spirit versus UCLA where it seems less strong? If you went to USC, regardless of what you majored in, I feel like a USC alumni will try to pull you in.
Thank you. Got it. I think the Trojan network is a nice thing and I think it’s a great brand. However, I don’t think it’s that much superior to the network that most of the business schools would provide. I feel it’s very well marketed and presented as a clear message. I think it’s awesome but I don’t think USC graduates respond at higher rates than Chicago booth graduates for example or Fuqua or UCLA. I would guess that some schools may have even stronger networks. I don’t mean to say anything negative… heck my cousin went to undergrad there 😂 but I don’t think it’s a secret society of some sorts. Funny enough, he networked for a job using his high school friends. He has stronger connection with those than his undergrad folks but that may be because he’s up in Seattle.
One interesting pattern with Business schools at highly prestigious undergraduate institutions and this includes even schools like Yale. Is that the caliber of undergraduate students is so high and so competitive that none of them would ever go to the business school in the same university. If you went to Yale, you don’t go to Yale MBA and similarly if you went to USC, you go to Stanford or Booth or Fuqua.
I can promise you that you will be salivating at the employers who come to recruit on campus for the undergraduates. There will be Google, Microsoft, Accenture, Goldman Sachs, and every possible star player. That will not be the case for the business school.
The undergraduate students who graduated 10 years ago or 20 years ago who would potentially be network opportunities for you, may not be very active in alum network anymore and they usually know that it’s a lot easier to get into the part-time program then the full-time program and they know that even the full-time program requirement is 85th percentile on the GMAT. They had to get 99th on SAT and this past year USC even waived test scores for many. Anderson did not (not sure about this year). Obviously it also depends on how much time and effort you put into networking. If you expect people to drop everything and help you out, then obviously that’s not going to happen. At the same time if you do homework and you are persistent, people will respond.
I think USC has a good thing going with the Trojan brand. However, it’s a huge net work and the bigger the network, the less responsive people tend to be which is just a human nature. It’s nothing against Trojans, I’m taking a swipe at humans

and I wanted to set realistic expectations
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