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My daughter attended USC and the number of applicants versus places in a class is something like 50K apply and only 5K are accepted. She was an Honors and International Baccalaureate student in HS and between her Junior and Senior year in HS she went to UC Davis for a summer semester with a full class load.
Her academic credentials were top flight and she was accepted not by anything I did to help but by her full resume of achievement which had been her hallmark to that point. USC is a private school and well known around the world for the quality of the education you receive and it is not cheap. Are there cracks in the system where people do underhanded things to get their little darling into a prestigious school, Yes.
Your comment about USC is poorly founded, it is a strong school indeed by reputation for academics and sports.

So what?

I attended a High School in Chicago called Lane Tech and it was a selective application school where academics were required to be the best in the city to even apply. If you did not maintain at least a C average by the end of your Sophomore year you had to leave and go to a regular Chicago HS in your district. We were known as the School of Champions and our sports teams had racks of trophies but none of the athletes there got any special treatment. Look it up, there are more graduates with PhD’s from there than any other school in the country. This is how it needs to be, Academic Rigor and a pursuit of excellence at all levels. I did not raise my daughter to be “popular” girl, it starts at home and she graduated with a major and minor degree in 4 years and She did it with her own hard work.

The problem to me is the fundamental change in the K-12 school system which has devolved into Indoctrination versus Education. Common Core and other garbage is meant to help “condition” the students along the way and fundamentals of Phonics and other foundational concepts have gone by the wayside. TO others who talk about Khan academy and others I say Yes, they have a place indeed and are hamstrung in many cases by the State as they have in many cases handed over “Education” to a system outlined in their constitution to provide it. In many cases Charter School funding has to pass through this system to feed the Charter Schools. Khan is as it needs to be a “Private” school along the lines of Parochial and others where parents are willing to pay to get the best education for their children even if they are also paying taxes to support the one present in their state no matter how bad they are.

So in closing and in response to your comment about USC I am proud my daughter went there and she received a great education. And to the football side she also was in the Marching Band and was blessed to go to Australia and other venues as a member, and those experiences cumulatively helped her to be the woman she is today. The alumni organization for that school is global and a degree from USC is a door opener but so is the expectation that the degree means something. So it is no surprise that folks are willing to try and wedge their child into the school and graduate from there. The stature it provides can get you a look, but once there at a company the expectation of performance and your actual skills tells the tale.

Education from bottom to top has to be reclaimed from the insidious system that in plain site is depriving our children of that which they are entitled to allowing them to to become the leaders of the future. And in this writers opinion it is obvious that this is a battlefield chosen by the Left to despoil all who attend with poisonous mindsets that have them coming out “entitled” and not enabled to have success. Life, Liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness is built upon this foundation, and if denied then the results speak for themselves. The Edutocracy in place today must go and fundamentals replace them, and the devil be damned if they whine and stomp their feet it must be changed NOW!