Clemson 2024 - come share your results

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have stars but my DD’s bff was just deferred. Who knew Clemson was so selective.

I did. I swear this board is so provincial and yet elitist, posters are always making fools of themselves over these southern schools.

How is a school ranked in the 80’s so selective? And why is my question elitist?

USNWR does not consider acceptance rates. Clemson had roughly a 36% acceptance rate last year. The business school was about 8% acceptance. Those are significantly lower (i.e., more competitive) than a number of schools ranked higher than Clemson. So while USNWR may have them ranked in the 80s it is not indicative as to how selective Clemson has become.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have stars but my DD’s bff was just deferred. Who knew Clemson was so selective.

I did. I swear this board is so provincial and yet elitist, posters are always making fools of themselves over these southern schools.

How is a school ranked in the 80’s so selective? And why is my question elitist?

Tell us you haven’t been paying attention to college admissions without telling us you haven’t been paying attention to college admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:Like what one of the earlier posters said - a lot of kids with very competitive stats (1400s plus and over 4.3) were getting deferred. A few kids with slightly lower stats actually got in (but who knows what the situation is - legacy, donor, athlete, geographic diversity, etc.). I read that 35% got in early action. I think many of the kids that got deferred will be very competitive against those applying regular decision. I thought that Clemson was relatively easy to get admitted to not too long ago - I wonder what happened?!

Welcome to the new reality of 2023. The upside of all this wokeness, is that what was considered as second tier schools like Clemson are now destination schools for all those Duke, Vandy and UNC "rejects."

Oh, I see. You’re dumb. That’s sad.

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Sheesh, brutal year. My daughter said it's all over TikTok, kids sharing their high stats and Clemson deferral.

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Anonymous wrote:It has to be marketing. If you are a slave to the USNWR rankings, Clemson is ranked 86. My DD got accepted to a school ranked 60th with an acceptance rate of 88%! GPA 3.78/4.4, 28 ACT. Why the discrepancy? She clearly wouldn’t be in a Clemson, yet it’s ranked higher. I don’t get it.
Just for reference DD also applied to several schools >T100 so we aren’t slaves to the rankings either but it’s the only point of reference I have to compare schools.

Clemson has an acceptance rate around 30 percent for EA. And less than 40 overall. It’s just more popular than the school ranked 60. Just one of the reasons not to put much stock in rankings.

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Anonymous wrote:No students from Potomac School accepted.

I know of several who were admitted from Churchill- maybe they get more commitments from public school kids?

My dd got in last year from private, high stats kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious that no one has claimed "yield protection" yet, as they do (in spades) when rejected at certain other schools...

My guess is that because it's early action - and it seems that every who did not get admitted, got deferred. I haven't seen any denials.

Yield protection is often very common with EA and deferrals--because it's easy. You defer high stats students, if they get in to their first choice ED, they withdraw their application it doesn't count as an acceptance. If they don't get into their ED choice or they didn't apply anywhere ED, they are moved to RD where they will be likely accepted.

Clemson doesn’t yield protect, took highest ranked kids from my kids’ schools that applied last year (two privates) and deferred everyone else. Some deferred kids were admitted in the spring.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have stars but my DD’s bff was just deferred. Who knew Clemson was so selective.

I did. I swear this board is so provincial and yet elitist, posters are always making fools of themselves over these southern schools.

How is a school ranked in the 80’s so selective? And why is my question elitist?

Tell us you haven’t been paying attention to college admissions without telling us you haven’t been paying attention to college admissions.

What a stupid response.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious that no one has claimed "yield protection" yet, as they do (in spades) when rejected at certain other schools...

My guess is that because it's early action - and it seems that every who did not get admitted, got deferred. I haven't seen any denials.

Yield protection is often very common with EA and deferrals--because it's easy. You defer high stats students, if they get in to their first choice ED, they withdraw their application it doesn't count as an acceptance. If they don't get into their ED choice or they didn't apply anywhere ED, they are moved to RD where they will be likely accepted.

Which college says this?

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Is it fair to assume that many of these high stat kids will end up at a higher ranked school? And therefore kids with stats more in line with typical Clemson admits (I.e. not 1500 SAT) will be the ones eventually admitted and enroll?
Feels like Clemson has passed over many of their target students and admitted these high stat kids for which Clemson is a safety?

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Anonymous wrote:Is it fair to assume that many of these high stat kids will end up at a higher ranked school? And therefore kids with stats more in line with typical Clemson admits (I.e. not 1500 SAT) will be the ones eventually admitted and enroll?
Feels like Clemson has passed over many of their target students and admitted these high stat kids for which Clemson is a safety?

No. Big southern schools are no longer safeties.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it fair to assume that many of these high stat kids will end up at a higher ranked school? And therefore kids with stats more in line with typical Clemson admits (I.e. not 1500 SAT) will be the ones eventually admitted and enroll?
Feels like Clemson has passed over many of their target students and admitted these high stat kids for which Clemson is a safety?

IMO it’s such a crap shoot everywhere, that kids apply to various schools not really knowing if a safety ends up where they will attend out of necessity. Schools are getting harder to get into. High stats kids are getting rejected from the schools that kids with their stats used to get into. As a result, they are applying and attending lower ranked schools. That boosts the stats in the common data report for those schools.

In short, Clemson may be an intended safety for some but some of those kids will be going there because their high targets and reaches reject them.

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Wow! You mean privileged, full pay kids who are legacies and getting in ED? That’s amazing!

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! You mean privileged, full pay kids who are legacies and getting in ED? That’s amazing!

You just wrote this on another thread, didn’t you?

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I feel like too many kids are now applying to the same big universities, mostly in warmer weather states. The students from these schools, (and there are tons!) post about all the fun they have on social media. The smaller schools don’t have as much free advertisement, so fewer kids apply. Then, it is just a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Also, could it be that some popular-queen bee type girls applied to Clemson a few years ago, and that made it a “hot” school? I did read something about that during last year’s admission drama.