Update: Currie Hall is now housing some clinicians...

Update: Currie Hall is now housing some clinicians from Keck who may be coming into contact with COVID patients, and has only recently made residents aware of this change after pressure from the school of medicine to do so.

Pros:
Currie Hall is an okay housing option for those attending USC on the Health Science Campus. They offer single, double, tipple, and quadruple housing options. In each apartment, you have your own room and bathroom, but share a kitchen and living room with your other housemates.

Because you are so close to HSC, you can leave minutes before class and still arrive on time. The convenience is hard to beat. The common areas have a pool, pool table, ping-pong table, jacuzzi, fireplace, and study area. The amenities are great.

The staff is also great; both front desk and maintenance. They are always friendly and try to help.

Cons:
Rent is fairly expensive for what your getting, and they seem to raise it around 80-90 dollars each year. Units seem to cost around 1100-1400 per month, excluding the cost of electricity (15-35 per month). Given this high price (and rising) other options such as an apartment in Pasadena or Alhambra are starting to seem better. Although, this would mean a commute, you would be paying hundreds of dollars less for rent.

As I mentioned, the amenities are great, however there are commonly issues with them. Pool cues are missing and tips or are broken (except for 1 or 2), there is free printing, but it is common for there to be no paper, and the sauna breaks many times throughout the year leaving it cold.

Additionally, mail pickup is only during weekdays business hours, this means if you are working a clinical rotation for your program and cannot get to the office during the week, you can't get your mail, unless you have a friend get it for you.

Parking is also an issue, it costs hundreds of dollars a semester and parking in adjacent neighborhoods could be dangerous.

It is generally, not safe to walk outside of the campus here, meaning if you want to do something you need to Uber or drive somewhere else (check crime maps for yourself). There have been shootings and gang activity outside the campus area here.

Lastly, and the biggest concern, the noise level at Currie is much too high (during the day and night). Currie hall is right next to train tracks with a crossing. This means, there are regular loud train horns throughout the day and night (yes, even at 3am). The trains will also idle on the tracks and screech as they pass. (See the attached figure).

This noise is compounded by the new construction projects even closer than the train (which go all day and continue into the weekend), loud helicopters landing at hospital and at the LAPD headquarters, noisy park events. And one thing especially important to note, Currie hall will be building a new location even closer to the train crossing (20 feet away). I feel bad for anyone that has to live there. Be cautious when signing the least. They will likely not tell you what unit you will be receiving until after you sign (then giving you an undesirable unit, close to trains, with a high turnover rate).

NOTE: Currie Hall has made this review hidden from yelp.