Congrats!!
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You too!
S25 accepted with merit. Nice to see the acceptance letter had such personal touches
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accepted with merit too! Congratulations to all!
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S25 accepted with merit and honors. Congrats to everyone!
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S25 accepted with $32k merit & honors, moving Clark way up his list. We’re going to spend a day visiting a class, having lunch with a student, etc. next week. He’s excited!
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Let us know how it goes! We are overseas so cannot visit but I am hearing lots of good experiences related to Clark when I share the news
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May I ask how you arranged this visit? Is there an option through admissions that I don’t see or did you reach out for personal arrangements? Also eager to hear it goes! DS was accepted but even with the merit it’s a bit more than we wanted but seems like an amazing fit. Also still hoping for the presidential scholarship but wasn’t chosen for first round so thinking it’s unlikely 
if you go to their regular visit page and mark you are an admitted student in the form, additional options pop up. For days school in session, it lists individual classes you can attend, specialty tours and lunch with a clarkie!
I don’t think you can see this unless you select that “admitted student” drop down.
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Yes, this is how we did it—there is a link in the recent accepted students’ emails also.
A really cute acceptance packet from Clark arrived yesterday with a pennant and temporary tattoos!
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Thank you! We will take another look!
Did you have the visit to Clark? Wondering how it went! We keep getting messages including a survey to see what we are thinking about Clark. Would need more money but still waiting on a few other schools too.
Yes, we had to reschedule our first visit but went earlier this week. It was a great visit. He went to a class (sociology): interesting professor, students were engaged & actively asking/answering good questions. He said “people seemed to have done the reading.” Then we had an arts-focused tour–we couldn’t actually access most of the spaces, which was disappointing, but the school has clearly invested a lot of resources into both fine & performing arts. Our student tour guide described a school with performances happening all the time & easy to get involved. Then he had lunch with a first-year student, which he found very reassuring–they said that by the end of their first month, they saw people they knew everywhere they went & felt like they had found their social space. The students in the admissions office were friendly & down-to-earth & spoke passionately about their academics.
He feels great about Clark right now, but it is still a little more expensive than his other options. He’s not ready to commit yet (wants to revisit a few more of his acceptances & see what March brings), but if he had to choose today it would be Clark.
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Resurrecting an old thread – but I’m taking my D26 to visit Clark and WPI this summer.
I would love to know if your student decided to attend Clark, and if not, may I ask what some of the deciding factors (for or against) were?
I think it might be a little small for my D26, and the fact that it doesn’t have a pep or marching band is already a strike against it – but I’ve heard Clarkies are allowed to march with the Holy Cross band. That may or may not appeal to my kid, unsure.
The UX/UI concentration they offer within game design is really appealing to her, though.
I would love any insight you’re willing to share!
Hi! My kid is going to RIT (WPI was in final mix!), as they decided they wanted to do a pure engineering major (there were some other potential majors in the mix back in fall including GIS which Clark has a robust program). Once they decided on that, Clark obviously fell off the list.
A couple of thoughts -i know a few families with kids at Clark and they all really love and one is now in the top grad program for their field. Only downside I have heard is it is a “small” after 4 years but I am not sure that is a downside for everyone;) Another kid who was not a particularly focused HS has really thrived and is really now pushing themselves and excelling at school. They love the classes.
Thank you for that! We toured RIT back in February, and she loved it – I’ve never seen the kid light up like that at any other school. It was freezing and gray out and right after a major snowstorm – we’re from the south, and it was more snow on the ground than she’d ever seen in her life, LOL. I do worry about her adjusting to the weather, but otherwise, RIT checked a lot of boxes for her.
The big fun hockey pep band – and a video game orchestra – were also hugely appealing. 
We’ll see what she thinks of Clark and WPI. I do think the “small” might be a problem – she’s at a small private school right now and has had trouble finding her people, and she worries that a small college will be more of the same. She’s a quirky kid. (But I get the sense that Clark is nothing like the conservative environment she’s used to – quite the opposite – which would be a good thing.)
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We love Clark, and it made it to our final three, but it came down to COA for us. I think the vibe at Clark is more of a match for my kid than the other two contenders (Connecticut College and Trinity). Clark was generous, but even with an appeal for more aid, which they gave us, they still ended up about 8K more.
Ah, gotcha. Glad to hear you loved the school itself.
The COA thing is hard – we have really good in-state merit, so if my kid gets into Georgia Tech, it will be tough to pass up the basically free tuition (and reputation/ranking), even though I think the fit isn’t nearly as good for D26 as other, more expensive out-of-state schools.
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Agree with that assessment! Clark will be very liberal and also lots of quirky kids.
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