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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clemson will definitely take some deferred kids in the spring.  However, last year, the [b]overall acceptance rate was below 40 percent,[/b] 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).[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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