Clemson says by Feb 15
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When we were at Clemson in August ā¦the streets were all pretty and tree lined. Yes, the buildings are nothing special compared to some of the traditional southern campusā. The students and everyone in general were so friendly and happy which is why it felt right for my daughter. . It is a big school with a small school feel . Much like a private school IMO. Youāre right though about it feeling smaller than it is.
VT is HUGE and very spread out. VT does have a bigger downtown. Being at VT Saturday /Sunday before the students were back was odd walking around with no one on the campus. We went in a couple freshman dorms (my daughter had friends come back to VT EARLy). The dorms were depressing and hadnāt changed much since the early 80s but that is changing. All schools seem to be re -vamping and building new dorms especially schools in VA and POINTS SOUTH . All schools have been over admitting freshman with record number of applications the past few years. . My older daughter is at JMU and they are really revamping !! Clemson has more of the JMU vibe as far as student body feel but Clemson is more academic. Donāt get me wrong. VT is a great school with a lot to offer. Itās just a different vibe.
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We were able to finally visit Clemson last weekend and D24 loved the campus. We saw multiple groups of students walking around, playing sports, hanging out, very alive and energetic sort of feeling even on a holiday weekend. Her favorite campus now!
She also liked Virginia Techās campus, even though it was windy/cold and it unexpectedly snowed a bit when we were there.
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For anyone whoās child was accepted and was wondering about Merit and or aid, I spoke to someone at admissions today and they indicated early April for both . I know some kids had merit mentioned in their initial letters but it appears there is still hope for Merit for those of us who didnāt have it mentioned with a high stats kid
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I noticed the edit major buttons disappeared today
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The deadline to change has come. They will focus on reviewing applications in hopes to have answers by mid February
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Haha ābuttongateā 2.0 setting in for the RD applicants 
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My edit majors button is gone as well. But the button that matters is the withdraw button. But donāt expect changes till 3-4 days before decisions and they might have patched that bug.
Edit major buttons dissapeared. Does anyone still have them?
Did they mention tiers at all? Or max merit amount this year? Iām assuming they didnāt but thought it wouldnāt hurt to ask.
They didnāt mention it and I didnāt ask ā¦ we are high stats and didnāt have any merit mentioned in our initial letter so Iām hopeful after hearing this there may be something headed our way
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Fingers crossed and good luck! Thanks for the info.
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Us too. Daughter is ranked #6 out of 515 with 4.0UW/5.0W and had no mention of merit aid.
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Roughly 6% of the student body pays full price according to professor.
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Really?!? Where did you see that? We were assuming we were going to have to wait until the end of March.
Oh wait. It literally says it in the deferral letter. Never mind!
I think a lot of in state students get a merit award from SC.
I got merit OOS, āacademic scholarship,ā and my SAT is 1410, so it is considerably high but not crazy for OOS. Do they take into account anything else for this?
Would you share your GPA? Clemson seems to care about GPA the most
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I talked to someone in the aid department about it. I asked if they consider where the student is applying from for aid- we are from NV and do they view us as an unlikely, with the assumption we are going to stay on the west coast. Do they use aid to maybe entice students they view as a more likely commitment. I know they give out aid to applicants all over, but is it more common per capita for aid to be given to more local OOS candidates? The answer was no, but my guess is that is just the rote response. Itās like when schools claim they donāt admit by major. They all have to admit by major. If a school gets a disproportionate amount of STEM majors, they still need to admit and feed students to other departments.
She did say, like NJ mentioned, that they will still evaluate and give out some merit as they go along.
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