Congrats @kateb1213 ! Okay, now I understand what someone meant earlier about 15,000 and 7,500… Do the scholarships automatically include in-state tuition for OOS?
@feenicks No. You pay OOS tuition minus the scholarship amount. The 15K gets you close to in-state tuition thought.
My son got accepted today! So excited! We didn’t think Clemson sent out any acceptances until after Christmas.
If you guys found out yesterday, when did you/ your child apply? I applied early October and I didn’t get an email saying my application was complete until October 22nd. I got nothing yesterday.
@maryland604 My son applied mid-Sept and got a notice that his application was complete the end of Sept.
Folks remember that there are only a very limited number of acceptances that go out before Feb. 15 when the majority of the acceptances go out. Historically it is high stats kids with a batch of acceptances in Mid November and another batch in mid December. Last year my daughter applied in mid October and got admitted in the December batch of acceptances.
Good luck to you all
@maryland604 My daughter applied late September and also got the complete email on October 22nd. No acceptance, will let it go and hope for her for next month.
Do later acceptances also include merit aid?
Last year people posted that they were receiving acceptances in January with merit aid. Search “You are Tiger Town Bound”.
Such a great attitude @excitingtimes - will definitely let it go and hope for the best. For all those waiting for their decisions, remember that it’s a numbers game and a timing game…it’s no reflection on you. Clemson, in particular, seems to be more random than other schools with their notification dates and rhyme/reason for when they let certain people know over others. My son applied August 1st, got his email confirming his application was complete on October 8th, is in the “high stats” category but did not hear yet. Maybe it’s our region? His major? Or a number of many other factors that did not get him in that coveted first round of decisions. It doesn’t mean he (and all of you patiently waiting) won’t hear in the coming months. Good things will happen!
D got acceptance letter today for Nursing. She is quite excited!! Letter also stated she will be getting Merit scholarship money, but didn’t say how much?
33 ACT
3.98 UW GPA
Multiple AP classes
Varsity athlete and Captain
We live in South Carolina and easily recall the days when Clemson was just a good home-state school that everyone went to (except those that went to Univ. of South Carolina). But since the school won the football championship, it’s all of a sudden the go-to reach for people all over the country. Honestly, I don’t see why. And all of these out-of-state kids are pushing up the SAT scores and grades. So while it used to be a pretty easy school to get into for our local kids, now it is difficult. Most of the Clemson students I know are starting off as students at a local community college with the understanding by Clemson that they will be admitted their Junior year if they keep up grades. So my question is: why Clemson? It has a good engineering program and some good research, but there are tons of other universities just as good. Plus, students find it difficult to graduate in four years because Clemson (purposely?) makes it impossible to get all of your required courses on time. Certain classes always have more students who need to take the class than available seats. A college financial adviser told us this how some colleges get more money out of students/parents because all financial aid ends after the four years. If your triplets do not get accepted – don’t worry. They probably will find something even better.
@SCTwinsMom I do not believe this is the forum for venting your negative frustrations, assumptions, rumors. There are a lot of parents and students on here who are very excited about the prospect of attending Clemson University. Please take this elsewhere. Thank you!
@SCTwinsMom As a parent of a child from PA who is a current freshman I can tell you there are tons of things that make Clemson a very attractive place to go to school. Lets start with the fact that the campus is beautiful and the weather is great. It has a great alumni network, and its career placement is ranked 1 or 2 every year. As a national public university it has a wide variety of programs and majors.
With the honors college it gives the high stat kids a small school feel in a large public university. It accepts tons of AP credits for college credits, So contrary to the idea that they make it impossible to graduate in 4 years, my daughter if she wanted could easily graduate in 3 as she started as a freshman with 35 credits. Finally with merit money the price is right. I would have to pay $65,000 to $70,000 for private schools like BC, Villanova, Lehigh, Lafayette etc. With merit money my OOS daughter is paying the same that it would cost for her to go to in state Pitt or PSU.
And then of course there is the major college sports programs including the football team. My daughter loves sports and going to a school with major college sports teams was important to her and Clemson certainly fit that bill.
As you probably knew despite the uptick in out of staters about 2/3 of the students are still from South Carolina. As a South Carolinian you should be proud that Clemson is now a national school and kids from all over want to go to school there. It can only help the school and the state to have this influx of talented young men and woman from all over the country coming to South Carolina.
@burghdad Well said!
My son, a freshman this year, was attracted to Clemson because of the excitement surrounding the football program, but chose it for the additional qualities he found appealing: a good math program (he’s a stats major and Clemson just carved out a new School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences out of the College of Science, making math more than just a department). The milder weather was also a plus for him. We live in Missouri and though he could’ve gone to college close to home with little out-of-pocket expense, he wanted to experience college in a different part of the country AND be part of a big (not massive) school with an exciting sports program. The OOS merit aid he received from Clemson made that dream possible. LIke burghdad’s daughter, he’s in the Honors College and came in with 27 college credits, so he is looking to graduate in 4 years.
While he’s looking forward to coming home for Thanksgiving, he’s thriving at Clemson and while we miss him, seeing him thrive has been very rewarding. One thing I found interesting: he pledged a fraternity and in telling us about his pledge class, he said, “Guess how many of my pledge class of 11 guys are from South Carolina.” I guessed 7. He said, “One.” The rest were from Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Colorado and Missouri. He’s enjoyed meeting people from South Carolina AND all over the country. I think that that kind of pull speaks very highly of Clemson.
Does anyone know if a GPA of 3.63 is too low to get in from OOS? My school does not weight. However, I did calculate my weighted GPA of 4.2ish. My school offers only about 12 APs and we are only allowed to take them Junior and Senior year.
@kgracey17 absolutely not, depending on test scores and choice of major!
^ And Class Rank if your school does rank
Yep. My rank is 51/321 so it’s about top 15-16 percent