Anonymous
Post 05/24/2019 10:05     Subject: Clemson
It is not for everyone. The southern thing is still pretty big. It is in the middle of nowhere. Besides football, it is a pretty boring school with the same frat party/bar scene as the only weekend options. Not much to do outside of the school. Football games are fun, but those weekends are just crazy with the number of people the come in for the games. The student body is very religious for the most part, FCA is huge. You need to have pretty good stats to get in from the DMV, but when you get there the South Carolina kids are way behind. OOS brings up the stats.
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2019 09:43     Subject: Clemson
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We live in metro DC but I grew up and went to school in the south; wondering how a nice, open minded, friendly liberal northern kids fit in socially at Clemson? My DC wants a college with traditional “college life”. I have heard it can be a challenge socially sometimes for kids from the north to attend southern schools like Clemson.


I’m a northerner (more north than DC) that attended U of SC and loved it. Anyone can have fun and enjoy it. Don’t box your child into being a “liberal northern kid.” S/he can grow into whatever s/he wants to be whether it’s liberal or more conservative.


Thank you! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to box my child in, in any way. It’s been 30+years since I was in college in the south and I am interested what it would be like for her, coming there with a different upbringing that I had. My recollection of college was that there was a lot of uniformity. Very glad to hear your experience was very different, and that there was a mix of different opinions and beliefs.


PP again. I’m back up north again for 12 years in my home state, and some of my southern friends are still among my best friends. I know people around here have poor opinions of many southerners it I like how they’ve enriched my life. There are old money southerners, hick southerners, and southerners you’d never guess were southerners based on the typical stereotypes. Sure they don’t fit into the DMV’s definition of “diversity” but they have enhanced my life and shown me different cultural things I love and broadened my horizon in their way. As a northerner I was interesting to them too. I wouldn’t have traded my experience for the world.


I am the poster raised in the south, currently in metro DC to whom you are responding - thank you for sharing your experience! Ultimately, its about where she gets in and where she chooses to go, but mamas will worry.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2019 12:33     Subject: Clemson
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We live in metro DC but I grew up and went to school in the south; wondering how a nice, open minded, friendly liberal northern kids fit in socially at Clemson? My DC wants a college with traditional “college life”. I have heard it can be a challenge socially sometimes for kids from the north to attend southern schools like Clemson.


I’m a northerner (more north than DC) that attended U of SC and loved it. Anyone can have fun and enjoy it. Don’t box your child into being a “liberal northern kid.” S/he can grow into whatever s/he wants to be whether it’s liberal or more conservative.


Thank you! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to box my child in, in any way. It’s been 30+years since I was in college in the south and I am interested what it would be like for her, coming there with a different upbringing that I had. My recollection of college was that there was a lot of uniformity. Very glad to hear your experience was very different, and that there was a mix of different opinions and beliefs.


PP again. I’m back up north again for 12 years in my home state, and some of my southern friends are still among my best friends. I know people around here have poor opinions of many southerners it I like how they’ve enriched my life. There are old money southerners, hick southerners, and southerners you’d never guess were southerners based on the typical stereotypes. Sure they don’t fit into the DMV’s definition of “diversity” but they have enhanced my life and shown me different cultural things I love and broadened my horizon in their way. As a northerner I was interesting to them too. I wouldn’t have traded my experience for the world.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2019 12:20     Subject: Clemson
Anonymous wrote:And BTW. I agree— Clemson is a solid, respectable engineering school. But not fantastic. There are at least 50 better engineering programs. 2 are instate VA (VT, UVA) and one is instate MD (UMDCP).

It also depends on what area of engineering your kid wants. Different programs excel at different subspecialities.


Are you an engineer? Even have a kid go to college?

Outcomes for an engineering school at #29 will not be so different from #50.

What is your criteria for a “fantastic” school anyway?
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2019 10:43     Subject: Re:Clemson
For engineering or computer science, Clemson is great. I know many grads from there, and all are doing very well and graduated with very little (if any) debt. Some received good scholarships, too. The campus is isolated but nice, and there is a tremendous amount of school spirit, with excellent networking opportunities.

- Signed, A Georgia Tech grad who almost went to Clemson