I’m not sure if that’s a trend at most of these schools, though. My high stats kid (1590, 4.0, homeschooled with 5 AP and 5 DE so far) did not want to apply to highly competitive schools for various reasons. Kid has gotten acceptances from Clemson, Auburn, Rose-Hulman, TN Tech, and UA-Huntsville. We actually applied to more schools that we should have needed to, based on concerns about how OOS admission rates and yield protection could intersect and be a problem, but so far it’s been fine. Caveat - spouse and I are Clemson alums so that might have affected Clemson, but not the others. I do always wonder if some of the high stats students rejected from good state schools applied later, once some majors were filled. We had our kid apply early everywhere in case this was a problem.
Top merit money amount in 2018 was 15K. In 2019 was 20K. Then in 2020 they dropped back to the 10K @Mjkacmom mentioned
I DIDim not sure amount but letter said academic scholarship
Accepted OOS NJ
1410 SAT
19/218
4.1528
female in my high schools selective pre engineering program
Bio major
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Congrats to you Daughter nursing is a very tough admit with the limited number they can accept.
any update on acceptance stats or percent of ea applicants that got in
I hope the Board here takes notice of this.
It’s flattering to get the academic scholarship “signal” via the recent admission letter….BUT
Do not expect large merit for OOS. I firmly believe your EFC plays into the awarded amount (a few exceptions).
Families pick Clemson because of the total fit and not just $. The board will light up in a few weeks once CU announces merit.
“South Carolina, Tennessee, etc offered XYZ and….clemson only gave us X.”
While my daughter gets a merit scholarship, I don’t think it has anything to do with EFC. My kids applied to 30+ different universities, never received a financial aid offer due to income, even with 3 in college at once.
Last year
At least back when my daughter applying and before test optional money was granted strictly on the basis of test scores and GPA. We never even submitted FASFA because we knew we weren’t getting any need money.
However you are correct that it is all about the best fit for your child and your families finances. My D18 had a higher merit offer at UDel (I think about 10K more) but she wanted the big time sports and the warmer weather so we okayed turning down Udel and its higher merit award. Clemson still came in about the same as our state flagships, Pitt and PSU.
D21 on the other hand got a significantly larger award at Miami of Ohio than at Clemson (I think 28K more). She wanted to go to her own place not where her sister went so she picked school that showed her the most love and went to Miami.
Different considerations even in the same family.
12K was max for HS grad 2020
This is happening to us too, we have a sophomore at Clemson, he loves it. DD was accepted for the same major no mention of merit and she has higher stats, higher test score, higher gpa and rigor, leadership and a great job.
She received great scholarships and attention from other schools, swag, shirts etc. all Clemson sent her was a magnet 
I would have loved having them at the same school
Daughter has no mention of Scholarship/aid in her Clemson acceptance. She already has 15k/year from Oregon, but she doesn’t want to go there. Live in NV, but she wants to go back east. She’s in at UGA, so hopefully they will offer something down the line. She is high stats, top 1.5% in her HS - 6 out of 505. Still waiting on UNC and VT to make a decision. Maybe, since we are so far away, they just assume we aren’t going to attend, and don’t bother with it? Who knows…
OOS Daughter deferred as well, all 5 applicants from her school deferred with stats that were high and low. Did make me think they didn’t look at all applicants yet.
Is anyone updating a resume or sending new recs for deferral?
The data I have seen from various sources (Common App and school counselors) is that applications (at least during the early rounds)spiked to schools with acceptance rates over 50 percent, as well as public universities. I think folks are chasing financial aid because of the economy and because of the sticker shock of a college education. My guess is that we will see those acceptance rates go down even at schools that once considered a “sure thing” for acceptance.
Has anyone applied to the Lyceum Scholars? I was just looking more into it since they’ve extended the date to January 10th to apply. I know any major can apply, but it seems more like something a philosophy, political science, pre-law major might be into. The $10,000 scholarship that comes with it is what caught my eye since I am out of state. I did get an academic scholarship but won’t know until late March/early April what the amount is, but based on threads from the past couple of years it seems like $5000-$6000 is about the average and I need to find a way to knock some of the sticker price down!
It’s still a chunk of change but just making sure you know it’s $10,000.00 over 4 years.
Yeah, I know it’s $2,500 a year which is about a semester of the dining plan for freshman year lol, but I’m thinking it might be worth it and will be an interesting group to be part of!
Agreed, I think the scholarship is to get people to check into it, but the program looks really enriching and rewarding for interested students. My son has no interest unfortunately.
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