Clemson University Early Action for Fall 2024 Admissions

If it isn’t specifically mentioned in the acceptance letter, your student didn’t get merit.

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Also ranked #2 in class of 430+
All core classes outside of AP were Honor courses.

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My son’s friend was denied. He is devastated as it was his #1. He would have loved a deferral.

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My daughter applied EA to Clemson

OOS
4.4 GPA weighted
top 10% of very large HS class
9 APs
1410 SAT
Varsity captain and competes at the national level for the past 3 years
admitted to Clemson Nursing

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Son was admitted to CS. No note about scholarship.

Weird thing - the confirmation email from when he applied said RD, so we figured he messed up somewhere on the app. We thought we were waiting till March for a decision and didn’t play button astrology. But he got a decision on the 14th, same time as everyone else.

Computer Science
Large competitive HS in GA
3.7UW/4.2W
36 ACT
9 completed APs (including Calc BC, CSP, CSA) and 2 in progress
HS does not rank

We declined already as he has an acceptance at UGA. Hope that opens up a spot for someone else! Good luck everyone and hang in there.

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What is the deferral form people are referring to? My child did not see a form or link in her deferral letter. Thanks.

This has been reported before. It seems like this EA round was very by the numbers (no review of essays or anything) so they may have admitted everyone above a certain grade threshold no matter when they applied.

No. I know someone with higher stats deferred and lower stats accepted.

Then that was fluke. If you scroll up and look at all the posts you will see a very clear boundary of acceptance vs defer in both GPA and test score.

The difference could be the major.

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I guess. I only know about 4 data points. The deferral was the outlier.

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Got into UofSC with in-state tuition. Classmate who got into Clemson didn’t get in-state tuition, he applied TO with 4.5 W. I’d assume Clemson just auto-admitted high class rank/UW GPA students without considering test scores/essays/LORs/ECs

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Clemson is straight forward on their criteria: GPA, rank, test scores, rigor of class work.

The essay, LORs, and ECs don’t matter much….if at all. It’s not that they don’t care, it just not how they evaluate.

Those things matter more to a UNC

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DS has a friend that was rejected from Clemson and accepted at MIT. Go figure.

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++major selection. That’s part of the strategy too. Have to know the capped majors and factor that into your approach

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I didn’t mention a deferral form…did you mean to reply to another post?

Interesting you say this. We have only gotten back acceptances from state schools so far -and it seems they are looking at gpa, and maybe test score and moving on. Not even sure if they are all looking at rigor. interested in seeing where my 3.8 gpa kid stands with tougher schools when they consider the all around student -including essay, LOr’s, EC’s etc.

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If that kid was accepted to MIT and not Clemson, it might be part of a trend I am seeing from online posts where really high stats kids aren’t getting into schools which they would consider “safeties” or targets, and wondering why. Some people are suggesting that these lower tier schools know they are a kid’s safety and are rejecting them outright because they know they will probably not be attending, thereby freeing up the spot for others who may actually want to attend. It could be a new way colleges are dealing with the avalanche of applications, but again - that’s just a theory going around. I haven’t heard that from any admissions folks.

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It is in her portal

A lot of people did get in early, but the EA acceptance rate is much lower than the general acceptance rate. It’s competitive. And they do look at the entire application, so one can’t judge just based on scores. Last year in our high school, most students were deferred to regular round and then accepted. This year about five got in on EA, and one was deferred. Those five are top of the class.

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