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After completing my first year in college, I have found that USD has so much to offer in terms of academics. The classes are small which is great because it allows you to interact with your professor on a one on one basis. In my experience, their office hours are pretty flexible and the teachers are willing to help you. They understand that with how much students are paying to go to USD, their money should be worth it. To sum up, the academics at USD is GREAT...I just wish that this school would offer more varieties in terms of majors. You would think a private school would offer everything you could think of. Now as for the social life of USD...I am sure that pretty much every other school have this problem as well so here it goes. Many of the students at USD are extremely rich and they drive really nice cars (I remember seeing 5 hummers the other day). I personally could care less how rich the kids are just so as long as they don't have the typical "rich, snooty personality" that goes along with their wallet. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. During my time spent at USD, the people and my goodness...especially the girls tends to be "fake." Let's face it...most of them are in their own little bubbles and unless you have the wallet to match with their fake smiles...you are in. To be honest, I have tried to get to know those types of girls...keeping an open mind. Some of them gave little acknowledgement whenever I past by them around campus. (Oh, I forgot to mention that USD is such a small campus that you tend to see the same people over and over again...even if you don't know them.) However, it is amusing that when second semester rolls around and those girls find me in one of their classes...doors start to knock in my dorm room and my telephone rings constantly for them to seek "the smart asian girl" for help. It's pretty pathetic. Can we say "use and abuse??" But, despite how corrupted the majority of the student body is at USD, I have managed to find a couple of down to earth people...hey maybe all hope isn't lost. So to sum up, if I could change USD...it would definitely be the people and their so called "diverse population." It's so funny, USD people think that if one day, they were walking on campus and saw an asian girl talking to a black guy...the campus is officially diverse. It's pretty sad. Oh yeah, and another thing about USD is that the financial aid office do give generous scholarship package...thank goodness for me because there is no way I would pay $35,000 to go to this school and see that most of the money is being used to garden the campus every fricken day. The campus is already ridiculously goregeous as it is. I hope I have sum up my experience at USD well. But please, don't base your decision on what I have said even though it's TRUE. Apparently, I'm not the only person who thinks so based from other previous comments.

1st Year Female -- Class 2006

Campus Aesthetics: A+, Extracurricular Activities: B-