Critical Thinking - Extra Credit

 Critical Thinking - Extra Credit

Critical thinking action steps: analyzing my decision to attend USC

  1. Write down all the alternatives you had

    1. Full ride to University of Wisconsin Madison

    2. Full ride to University of Colorado Boulder

    3. Partial scholarship to USC

    4. Partial scholarship to UC Berkeley

    5. No scholarship to Boston University

    6. No scholarship to NYU

    7. No scholarship to Duke

  2. Write down why you chose one over the other

    1. I chose a partial scholarship to USC because it was my top choice, I resonated with the tour the most, I wanted to be somewhere warm, and the business and international relations program was my top choice.

  3. Were these reasons based on facts you researched, or assumptions?

    1. Facts: strength of my program, information I learned during the tour.

    2. Assumptions: better work-life balance, better school culture, more fun school culture, more prestige than the other schools I had scholarship to.

  4. What assumptions informed your decision

    1. Although the tour provided me some factual information, I also resonated a lot with things I had heard and assumptions I had made about the school. Things such as fun, culture, work hard play hard culture, and overall trojan network were things I had heard or assumed from media or sources online. These things wouldn't necessarily be measured so I just assumed their weight.

  5. How do you know the assumptions were true? Have you examined their validity?

    1. I researched online, watched videos on the school, and talked to a family friend who was the dean of admissions at a similar university and was familiar with university cultures and reputations. One of my dads friends' daughters also attended and I spoke to her.

  6. Do you make many of your decisions based on unfounded assumptions? Give examples.

    1. Despite really weighing my options heavily since this was a very big decision, I did unfoundedly assume that my life would be better in LA than in Madison, Boulder, Boston or North Carolina. U had only been to LA once but I truly believed that California was the place for me. Luckily, 3 years later, I can say that I was probably right. But, I had no real genuine reason to think this at the time besides a figment of my imagination and a fake future that I had created.

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