Clemson 2024 - come share your results

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

made up theories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is my takeaway from the entire process.

[Anonymous]

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

I'm a PP with a kid who got in from a local public. DC is privileged by virtue of the fact that we own a home in the DMV, and DC has two parents that both work full-time and hold advanced degrees. We are a donut hole family and are not full pay OOS at Clemson. My kid is unhooked, not full pay, and not a legacy. DC has a strong profile, but was by no means a lock for admission.

We don't know if Clemson is DC's first choice or not, but we did not consider it a safety. DC wants to see all admission results and will make a decision from there.

[Anonymous]

Listened to a webinar recently (Harlan Cohen—author of 13 Mistakes Kids Make When Selecting a College)—anyway he specifically mentioned Clemson deferred 15,000 applications last year from EA to RD. He only mentioned two schools when speaking about deferrals so my take away was that Clemson deferred more than most schools. Our high school’s college counselor also warns students they maybe deferred but still have a chance to get in so don’t panic yet if you aren’t accepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listened to a webinar recently (Harlan Cohen—author of 13 Mistakes Kids Make When Selecting a College)—anyway he specifically mentioned Clemson deferred 15,000 applications last year from EA to RD. He only mentioned two schools when speaking about deferrals so my take away was that Clemson deferred more than most schools. Our high school’s college counselor also warns students they maybe deferred but still have a chance to get in so don’t panic yet if you aren’t accepted.

Any insight from last year on how many of those deferrals were admitted RD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listened to a webinar recently (Harlan Cohen—author of 13 Mistakes Kids Make When Selecting a College)—anyway he specifically mentioned Clemson deferred 15,000 applications last year from EA to RD. He only mentioned two schools when speaking about deferrals so my take away was that Clemson deferred more than most schools. Our high school’s college counselor also warns students they maybe deferred but still have a chance to get in so don’t panic yet if you aren’t accepted.

It seems that about 100% are deferred. Clearly all 100% won’t make it in with RD.

[Anonymous]

Clemson has a fairly low yield at only 20% (2022 information, so not sure what the data looks like for last year's class). I also read an article where the Clemson AO said their OOS yield is even lower.

My takeaway is that you really want to impress upon them that Clemson is your top choice, especially if you are applying OOS. Having top stats is great, but I would imagine Clemson would prefer to accept an applicant with good stats that really wants to attend Clemson vs. the high stats kid that shows no special interest in the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

made up theories.

Every theory was made up by someone. This one seems reasonable and well thought out.

[Anonymous]

I’m betting they are hoping that some kids withdraw their application because of ED results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listened to a webinar recently (Harlan Cohen—author of 13 Mistakes Kids Make When Selecting a College)—anyway he specifically mentioned Clemson deferred 15,000 applications last year from EA to RD. He only mentioned two schools when speaking about deferrals so my take away was that Clemson deferred more than most schools. Our high school’s college counselor also warns students they maybe deferred but still have a chance to get in so don’t panic yet if you aren’t accepted.

Any insight from last year on how many of those deferrals were admitted RD?

No he didn’t go into any more specifics. The other school he mentioned was USC deferring 30,000 last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listened to a webinar recently (Harlan Cohen—author of 13 Mistakes Kids Make When Selecting a College)—anyway he specifically mentioned Clemson deferred 15,000 applications last year from EA to RD. He only mentioned two schools when speaking about deferrals so my take away was that Clemson deferred more than most schools. Our high school’s college counselor also warns students they maybe deferred but still have a chance to get in so don’t panic yet if you aren’t accepted.

It seems that about 100% are deferred. Clearly all 100% won’t make it in with RD.

My child was accepted (OOS very high stats)—I have to think that stats and teacher/counselor recs count for a ton since they don’t have supplemental essays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listened to a webinar recently (Harlan Cohen—author of 13 Mistakes Kids Make When Selecting a College)—anyway he specifically mentioned Clemson deferred 15,000 applications last year from EA to RD. He only mentioned two schools when speaking about deferrals so my take away was that Clemson deferred more than most schools. Our high school’s college counselor also warns students they maybe deferred but still have a chance to get in so don’t panic yet if you aren’t accepted.

It seems that about 100% are deferred. Clearly all 100% won’t make it in with RD.

My child was accepted (OOS very high stats)—I have to think that stats and teacher/counselor recs count for a ton since they don’t have supplemental essays.

To clarify child was EA/not a legacy, URM or athlete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clemson has a fairly low yield at only 20% (2022 information, so not sure what the data looks like for last year's class). I also read an article where the Clemson AO said their OOS yield is even lower.

My takeaway is that you really want to impress upon them that Clemson is your top choice, especially if you are applying OOS. Having top stats is great, but I would imagine Clemson would prefer to accept an applicant with good stats that really wants to attend Clemson vs. the high stats kid that shows no special interest in the school.

For EA, it’s pretty strictly stats driven. For RD, a strong letter of continued interest might make a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

To be fair, when you look at Clemson's common data set from this past year, it seems that a lot of these kids with high stats should have gotten in. Also, kids are applying to far more colleges this year (even compared to last year). In the end, when final decisions are made (i.e. when the students make the final commitments), I think that a lot of kids that were deferred or waitlisted will get in.

I think you don’t understand what’s happening outside of the DMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

Clemson is a southern school with mostly whites. If you got deferred it has nothing to do with the racial drivel spouted on Anonymous forums.