Clemson 2024 - come share your results
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Clemson will definitely take some deferred kids in the spring. However, last year, the overall acceptance rate was below 40 percent, this is lower than Vatech, Pitt, and others that the dcum crowd is more familiar with. Clemson also admits by major, so harder admit for business, psych, and nursing, as those are most popular majors.
Three cycles ago, Clemson started taking the common app and application numbers doubled. They went up another 10,000 in the following two years. There is a lot of demand for this school. My high stats student got in last year and did not attend. However it stayed on her list until the end due to its medium size, great weather, and good sports scene. She had an older friend there who loves it. About half the kids we know who got in EA last year attended (we are in Maryland). |
Anonymous
Have them look into joining the CUBS program and living in Douthit |
Anonymous
It’s worth it at the schools where a merit scholarship might only be possible for applying early, but otherwise, my kids essays would have been better written in December. |
Anonymous
Thank you so much for the information! I had no idea this program existed. Definitely a great fit for her. We did not think she would get into Clemson EA so I have not done a ton of research on the school as of yet. |
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I don't mind giving space - but it's now the next day and she still "hasn't gotten around to looking." I told her that based on what I have seen, she will most likely get deferred (she has a 4.4 and 1470) - so she is prepared for what to expect. But for some reason, she doesn't think that it's a big deal to check. For her last decision it took a couple days as well - ugh! I think she is just feeling apathetic about the whole college process. |
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| When do we hear about merit? |
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It has a pretty broad range of stats too in who it accepts--which means a much larger population of students feel like it's a target--this is a thing that brings down acceptance rate percentages too. ( In contrast, if a school's 25th percentile is a 1400 SAT, 4.2 GPA there are not more than 5% of the entire college application population in range). If a school want to keep that broad range (and some public universities do--for instance, they want to serve their broad state region and don't want to create a climate where the in-state students tend to have much lower stats than out of state students) their acceptance criteria may become more holistic--esp for out of state students. So all this is to say, stats/hs course rigor aren't always the best predictor of who gets in--they may set an threshold for the stats they are looking for and then focus on other criteria for the group that meets that threshold--diversity of academic interests, personal qualities in the essays etc. |
Anonymous
| DD, FCPS, 4.1w/1300, 9 APs with good ECs was deferred. |
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DS FCPS
3.8UW/4.2W GPA 1350 SAT Strong LORs from core teachers Strong Leadership and summer jobs Business Major Deferred Out of 7 HS friends only 1 was accepted. All others were deferred. Accepted student had 1450 SAT and 4.5W GPA for engineering major (according to DS. Apparently kids all share their stats). At least one of the other deferred students has a keen interest in UVA so makes we wonder how the rest of the application process will go. If Clemson is off the table UVA seems like an even bigger reach despite this kid being very high stats. Agree that the whole EA process seems like a bit of manipulation from universities if they mostly defer OOS students to RD, even if they have the stats. Several schools in FL are a bit more transparent and say they have an EA deadline for submission from OOS but won't release decisions for those til mid-Feb. So the admit they really reserve the EA decision timeline in Dec for the IS students. |
Anonymous
If you were given merit, you would be told that in acceptance letter. Clemson won’t tell you amount of merit until March. |
Anonymous
new poster here I'd be irritated about that too. I mean, you paid the application fee, not her, right? And you paid for her to take the SAT/ACT? And presumably you'll be paying her tuition/housing costs/meal plan, etc.? The least she could do is take the two minutes to look at her portal. Personally, I'd be having second thoughts about how much money and effort I'm willing to put into a student that behaves the way your daughter does. |
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My son did not want to look at the portal yesterday either. I totally get that. It’s like Schrodinger’s cat, it’s still 100% alive until you open the box.
This whole college process is awful and stressful, I don’t blame the kids for wanting to avoid it |
Anonymous
Oh come on--she's got excellent grades and test scores so she's obviously worked very hard in school. She's likely just nervous about the acceptances (and the whole college process) and is trying to play it cool. Or she hates all the drama around telling people where she got in or not and wants to delay it until winter break at school. |
Anonymous
i have it on a good source that this round is strictly stats and legacy based. only in The RD round will they review LORs, ECs and essay. |
Anonymous
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