It’s not instant, it can take a few weeks.
We got it linked. After a more careful check of spam, the email was discovered in there!
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Any idea how to find out which of the majors are competitive? My son is applying to sports communication as his first choice major (which we were told on the tour is competitive), so he was hoping to pick a less competitive second choice but I’m having trouble finding that information on the website.
Thank you
My senior is a finance major/math minor, she was talking with one of her advisors last week who told her business is now the hardest to get into, with finance having single digit acceptance rates. One of her freshman sorority sisters did not get into the business school but got in with communications.
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Interesting. I watched their video about applying and it said if applying to a competitive major, it would be wise to list a second choice major, but it didn’t say how to find out which majors are competitive. I don’t want him to choose a second competitive major. Although, on the other hand, if he would only go if he got into one of those two majors, maybe the right thing to do is just put what he actually wants rather than trying to play the game.
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Sports communications is a closed major so not guarantees of being able to transfer in, majors like business and engineering are competitive majors.
Not sure how up to date this, by Tri County Tech (has the Clemson Bridge program) said the following…… The Clemson University closed majors for the 2023-2024 academic year are: Architecture*, Communication, Construction Science & Management, Health Science, Landscape Architecture*, Language and International Health, Nursing, Psychology*, and Sports Communication.
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Do the closed majors only apply to transfer students or trying to transfer into them after being admitted to 2nd choice, or both?
Thank you for sharing this, my younger son is OOS, 3.9 GPA before AP and honors math and science, regular English, etc. Your info is helpful
You’re welcome! Let me know if I can be of any more help! Clemson was always my dream school, but unfortunately I couldn’t make it work financially! I believe the highest amount I saw last year for merit for OOS was $10,000 but most were between $3,000-6,000. Knowing I have graduate school and either med school or a Psy.d program ahead of me, I just couldn’t see paying $200,000 for undergrad! I fortunately got a full tuition scholarship to Stetson University with a direct admit into the Master program in clinical psychology. I’m happy where I am, but I would’ve loved to be a Tiger!!!
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Closed majors apply to all categories.
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Applied (Finally)
Decided to do TO - Hope it doesn’t bite us as we didn’t really understand the closed majors and selected those.
OOS
This is our Second College kiddo, have a Freshman at WFU now. But our 2025 is applying to different places and this is our first Clemson App.
thanks - ended up going TO - guess we can always decide to submit later? idk
SAT (took once) 1230
OOS
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Sports Communication is the most difficult major at Clemson to be accepted into. They accept under 60 students per year and the majority of them are scholarship athletes.
Well, that’s unfortunate since he certainly isn’t a scholarship athlete 
Oh well, I guess you never know!
Clemson recently had a virtual meeting about their communication majors, specifically sports communication, and they said they are growing the program to over 130 this year and plan to continue to grow it over the next few years.
That’s great news, thank you for passing on the information!
Does anyone know if Clemson stacks scholarships? D25 will receive Palmetto Fellows (if admitted), but could she also qualify for school-specific scholarships?
Yes, but Clemson doesn’t usually give much additional to Palmetto Fellows for instate. I have two that were both Palmetto Fellows and they got a few thousand more from Clemson for Palmetto Pact and departmental scholarships.
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Thank you for that info! Just a few thousand may be the difference in choosing Clemson vs. another school. The private schools are actively recruiting her, scheduling interviews and multi-day tour options. It will be an interesting few months!