Last year my son had a very generic common app essay and only recs from his high school teachers but was in top 10 of a very large high school and a high gpa. He was accepted EA and we are in state. I doubt they even read the essay.
I think Clemson highly values class rank and gpa - I know they really promoted it / talked it up during orientation sessions and parent meetings.
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Yea, we donât even have class rank in our school. All classes are either college prep, honors, or APs and we donât rank the kids.
Whatâs a a reasonable weighted GPA cutoff theyâre looking for in terms of EA admit?
Sounds like Auburn but TO. Strictly metrics driven. If deferred, then it changes to holistic.
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it canât mean that because there were 1,046 enrolled in the bridge program⊠and that has oos students also!
It just says they were invited to enroll; not necessarily enrolled.
My DDâs button just disappearedâŠ
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In state students accepted to Bridge doesnât mean they enrolled.
My school doesnât provide class rankings, would that hurt my chances of getting in if itâs something they value so highly?
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No, they know how to deal with it. Our school (OOS) doesnât rank and we send kids to Clemson every year.
I have a family member who was offered summer start last year, lots of honors/APâs (he was planning on majoring in CS, engineering maybe physics, so a lot of STEM). While he had a 35 act and 1540 sat, I think his UGPA was around a 3.0 (undiagnosed adhd, started meds senior year which helped a lot). Heâs at Pitt.
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91% in state was accepted but they didnât attend. So they may have went to other colleges.
Would he have been able to defer enrollment to fall or was it summer or nothing?
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Are all the buttons now gone?
I was looking at the historical data from our high school. There are charts for each university that plot admit/waitlist/deny. On one axis is test scores, and on the other axis is GPA. There are certain colleges where you can draw a perfectly straight line along the GPA part of the graph. Which means that college simply doesnât take a holistic approach. They take a numbers approach, and thereâs a cutoff. On the other hand, there are colleges which donât plot with straight lines at all. Those colleges really read the applications and consider everything. Incidentally, among the 2 or 3 dozen Top 100 colleges we looked at, one of the most holistic was U of Miami.
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Just now or a few hours ago? Iâm rooting for you!
As I mentioned we are in Georgia: about 2 miles from SC line. I do photography and was doing photos a couple months back and found out the family was from Clemson so obviously I brought up my daughters hopes for attending. Turned out the husband works at Clemson he works with some type of presidential scholar program or somthoen over my head. He was in admissions up until last spring- go figure, anyways so I couldnât resist spilling my daughters stats and wondering if going TO would hurt us. All her stats he was just listening to and then he asked what her class rank was- I said 9% (19 out of 246) and he went from nods straight o- yep she will be absolutely fine if itâs anything like it has been the last 7 years I was in admissions. SO what that tells me is that class rank is major for Clemson. Granted that was the last 7 years so that may mean nothing this year!
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Breaking news - the âedit term buttonâ has been removed in our household. This is all so fascinating. May the odds be in your favor! And remember, your kid will end up in the right place. Thanks for all of the good humor. Merry Christmas and good luck!
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They seem to promote their class rank stats over gpa
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