So I have a high gpa (4.852) but low sat scores my dad graduated from Clemson but do I have any hope I only have an 1170 sat but I am vp of my schools nhs played 4 sports and was active in 5 clubs
Went to tour school in Oct, was shocked to hear student had already applied.
Applied in Nov.
SAT 1420
GPA 4.2
AP/IB 8
Ethnicity Hispanic
NY
Numerous EC
4 year Varsity Sports / Captain / Regionally recognized
Summer employment
Prospective Engineering student
Still waiting. We didn’t think they sent anything yet. When anyone admitted’s letter came were they big envelopes - or letter sized?
Fingers crossed
Daughter accepted last year in December with large envelope.
Anyone receive an envelope recently?
Not yet…keeping fingers, arms, legs and eyes crossed!!!
Does anyone know if Clemson gives any weight to letters of recommendation from Alumni?
does clemson give weight to applied students with older clemson siblings ?
May I suggest that you make an appointment with an admissions counselor and ask them your question. Unless we have someone here on the forum who currently or previously worked at Clemson, it will just be a guess. You should also look at Clemson’s Common Data Set (if you haven’t already) as it tells you what is important to Clemson. Good luck! We are counting down the days until decisions are released the week of 2/15.
For those who may be interested…there is a way to see what mail/packages are being delivered by USPS where you can see a photo of your mail. The link for it is below. It will beat running to the mail box. Its called informed delivery and its an easy sign up
https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action
We have informed delivery an so far none of the large acceptance envelopes received to date from other schools have shown up in the daily email of scanned mail.
I don’t think we will hear anything for another month, sadly…
Last year, after a wave of acceptances in November for ultra high stats students (1500+ SAT), then a wave of high stats (1400+) in December, it looks like the majority received notification letters around February 12.
It could be different this year, but that’s how it was last year.
I’m with DCNatFan regarding informed delivery. They do not scan large envelopes so you will not get a pic of them. It will tell you however, that your mail includes items and envelopes they couldn’t scan SO you know something larger is coming -including catalogs, etc.
@clemsonfan101 I was told by an admissions counselor at spring blitz last year that a sibling who attends Clemson does count as legacy, and yes it does help. The counselor did not say how much it helped, but he did tell me it helped. I’m in the same boat with a daughter there now finishing her last semester before graduation, and a senior in HS waiting for his acceptance :).
@sweetFreedom - Good luck!!! I have three seniors who are just DYING to go to Clemson. They don’t even want tio talk about their second choice. We are OOS and one of them is in scholarship range, one should get in based on SAT/GPA and one is a stretch. I’m dying. Does anyone happen to know if OOS kids are ever invited to Bridge?
@camcam2022 I just pulled my son’s package from last year. EA OOS applicant and letter is dated 12/07/17. I have twins (one applied) and funny they were talking about the Clemson tour just last night. It was spring 2017 with nice/enthusiastic guy. My son isn’t there though, too expensive OOS, popular in the Northeast.
I was wondering if anyone knows whether or not Nov 1st submissions qualify in the pool of “January Wave” applicants. I just learned about this “wave” thing today and now I’m even more anxious since I submitted a month before the Priority deadline. Thanks!
I’ve read about how class rank is very important. And that if a school doesn’t rank that Clemson has a way to figure it out. I am concerned because my school changed the weighting scale for honors and AP. We are the first year and our GPA’s our significantly lower than last year because of the change. Do the Admissions officers know this?
Would it be wrong to email and ask?
Your high school transcript should clearly reflect how honors and ap classes are weighted. You might ask your high school counselor whether the change is reflected in any other documentation that they complete. I thought there is some sort of school report that they may file as well?
@NcAb11 Good point. They do submit a school report. I guess my concern is that the admissions team might be used to seeing certain #ers from this particular school (private) and our class will have lower #ers. They devalued the weight of AP and honors starting with our class. Since we don’t rank it will be harder to tell for them. I’ll ask my school counselor about it. Just overthinking things. I just posted after reading last years admissions forum which really emphasized rank.