USC is all about self-motivation to study and clinical skills. If you need somebody to spoon feed you..don't even consider SC. One of the posters mentioned the fact that the school is in the getho. This is one of the advantages of USCSD; while UCLA D-school students beg and almost pay their patients to show up at their clinic (Westwood = Very Far traffic wise), us, trojans, don't have to worry about patient pool....the clinic is always full. Looking at it on a strategically standpoint, we definitely have a huge advantage. What does this means? Excellent clinical training; UCLA is incrediblly good in NBDEs and residency matching (you have to be a brainiac to get accepted there, hence the excellent scores), but if you intention is General Dentistry, USC is definitely the way to go.