Another poster here - my son loved Clemson and we went for a special program they used to offer for juniors. I LOVED it. It was such a friendly, special, beautiful outdoorsy place. He got in Clemson in December and I thought we were done, but he decided to go to UGA in February. Better business school and he liked the town better, but i'm sure he would have been happy at either. He's a lifelong Dawg now working in Atlanta.

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Anonymous wrote:Other schools that accepted DS: Indiana (Kelly direct admit) U S Carolina capstone scholar w merit, Pitt (no merit), Jmu, William and Mary spring admit.

Hi, my son has similar stats and is considering U S. Carolina. Would you mind sharing the merit $$ amount your son got?

We’re chasing merit and I’m trying to determine if it’s worth the application fee.

U South Carolina gives automatic in state tuition for the academic common market majors.

This ended but my son was still offered in state tuition for business. He ended up at UGA

Why did he choose UGA?

Loved the town, vibe, people he met when visiting, knew a close family friend there, business school etc. he prob would have loved SC too - it just so happened we toured UGA the year prior. He never visited SC. He did get $ to Georgia and it's surprisingly affordable.

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Anonymous wrote:Other schools that accepted DS: Indiana (Kelly direct admit) U S Carolina capstone scholar w merit, Pitt (no merit), Jmu, William and Mary spring admit.

Hi, my son has similar stats and is considering U S. Carolina. Would you mind sharing the merit $$ amount your son got?

We’re chasing merit and I’m trying to determine if it’s worth the application fee.

U South Carolina gives automatic in state tuition for the academic common market majors.

This ended but my son was still offered in state tuition for business. He ended up at UGA

Why did he choose UGA?

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Anonymous wrote:Other schools that accepted DS: Indiana (Kelly direct admit) U S Carolina capstone scholar w merit, Pitt (no merit), Jmu, William and Mary spring admit.

Hi, my son has similar stats and is considering U S. Carolina. Would you mind sharing the merit $$ amount your son got?

We’re chasing merit and I’m trying to determine if it’s worth the application fee.

U South Carolina gives automatic in state tuition for the academic common market majors.

This ended but my son was still offered in state tuition for business. He ended up at UGA

It ended at UTK, not U South Carolina.

South Carolina has two majors with Academic Common Market (for VA residents).

And Clemson undergrad has also left Academic Common Market.
https://www.sreb.org/post/clemson-undergrad-programs-no-longer-available-new-students

Hi pp here. For u s Carolina capstone scholar my kid is getting $16k a year in merit. This makes the total cost $42k vs $58k oos. Same as the VA flagship schools, maybe a few k more for travel. Honors would be more merit.

It’s not the same as the academic common market in state tuition thing. he is in the business school. There are roughly 1600 freshmen in the business school, and the head of the school said that there were 16,000 school applicants last year.

DCA and IAD have direct daily flights to CAE.

DS is really enjoying his time there.

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Anonymous wrote:Other schools that accepted DS: Indiana (Kelly direct admit) U S Carolina capstone scholar w merit, Pitt (no merit), Jmu, William and Mary spring admit.

Hi, my son has similar stats and is considering U S. Carolina. Would you mind sharing the merit $$ amount your son got?

We’re chasing merit and I’m trying to determine if it’s worth the application fee.

U South Carolina gives automatic in state tuition for the academic common market majors.

This ended but my son was still offered in state tuition for business. He ended up at UGA

It ended at UTK, not U South Carolina.

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Anonymous wrote:Other schools that accepted DS: Indiana (Kelly direct admit) U S Carolina capstone scholar w merit, Pitt (no merit), Jmu, William and Mary spring admit.

Hi, my son has similar stats and is considering U S. Carolina. Would you mind sharing the merit $$ amount your son got?

We’re chasing merit and I’m trying to determine if it’s worth the application fee.

U South Carolina gives automatic in state tuition for the academic common market majors.

This ended but my son was still offered in state tuition for business. He ended up at UGA

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Anonymous wrote:Other schools that accepted DS: Indiana (Kelly direct admit) U S Carolina capstone scholar w merit, Pitt (no merit), Jmu, William and Mary spring admit.

Hi, my son has similar stats and is considering U S. Carolina. Would you mind sharing the merit $$ amount your son got?

We’re chasing merit and I’m trying to determine if it’s worth the application fee.

U South Carolina gives automatic in state tuition for the academic common market majors.

Doesn’t that mean you need a weird major?

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Anonymous wrote:Other schools that accepted DS: Indiana (Kelly direct admit) U S Carolina capstone scholar w merit, Pitt (no merit), Jmu, William and Mary spring admit.

Hi, my son has similar stats and is considering U S. Carolina. Would you mind sharing the merit $$ amount your son got?

We’re chasing merit and I’m trying to determine if it’s worth the application fee.

U South Carolina gives automatic in state tuition for the academic common market majors.

Anonymous wrote:Other schools that accepted DS: Indiana (Kelly direct admit) U S Carolina capstone scholar w merit, Pitt (no merit), Jmu, William and Mary spring admit.

Hi, my son has similar stats and is considering U S. Carolina. Would you mind sharing the merit $$ amount your son got?

We’re chasing merit and I’m trying to determine if it’s worth the application fee.

My DS applied to Clemson OOS (fcps) 3 years ago. Your daughter should be fine. Look at their common data set to make sure you meet their required courses. I think some amazing kids with high GPAs get knocked out because they didn’t take the right class/es.

My DD got in last year through EA. She went test-optional with a 3.9/4.5 GPA (in MCPS). She did know of a lot of friends who got deferred and I do not know what pushed her over, but I think your child has a great chance of getting in.

That said, even though my daughter loved the school, she ended up elsewhere where she was given merit money.

Anonymous wrote:Last year: DS, white, FCPS, not first gen college student.

Applied to Clemson business school, 4.1W gpa and 1380 SAT. 710 m, 670V

Varsity athlete 4 years and captain

Deferred and then waitlisted.

Luckily accepted at 5 other schools but this one was typical of what I was hearing for popular D1 large SEC ACC and Big 10 or state schools.

Also last year: DD APS, white, not FGLI.

Applied to business with a 4.0 UW (I can’t remember exactly what WGPA was at time of application; 12 APs in total). 1390 SAT.

Varsity athlete and captain.

Accepted EA.

30 years ago has zero relevance. 10 years ago also has zero relevance. Back then a 1200 SAT was genius level and everyone got into UMD easily.

It wasn’t as hard an admit 30 years ago.

All schools but particularly the big, state or sec schools are harder admits now.