There was for my daughter as well. She is the only student to attend Clemson ever from our HS. She applied to 20 schools chasing merit. If she had bothered to apply to honors she wouldn’t have had to worry about housing. It worked out fine, she felt CUBS was very worthwhile.
Yay! My daughter too!!!
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My daughter was accepted with a Merit Scholarship. Our school does not rank. 4.0, 6 APs I think, and she didn’t submit scores. Health Sciences. Three of her classmates that she knows of, also accepted. One was deferred that she knows of.
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My daughter is in state her stats (accepted to nursing) 4.0/5.25, top 4%, ACT 33, honestly that’s what they look at. She also has APs and DE classes
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Same here. No rank at all. No bands. And without class rank we ended up deferred when GPA and everything else is at or above the publish range.
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very similar story here from my S23 and now S25- which state are you from? S23 wanted to live in the shoeboxes, so priority probably wouldn’t have mattered anyways. S25 was accepted engineering but is likely going to switch to business. Which dorms does the CUBS LLC occupy?
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This is correct. App date was #1 now roommate group is #1 and app date is #2. So the date matters but also must be in a group. No singles taking spots, groups get priority.
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Yes. It appears the official decision had not yet been finalized when I was told app date didn’t matter. Luckily, DC still applied early!
before enrollment/matriculation it is easy to change majors within open majors - my S23 did this between biosciences related majors and my accepted S25 is likely going to switch from engineering to business. The ‘request change of major’ feature is already live on the applicant portal.
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We are from NJ, the 3rd largest population at Clemson! CUBS is in Douthit. She’s a finance major math minor going into actuarial science (4th exam coming up). Looking back, she would’ve most likely ended up in the shoeboxes and would’ve loved it, very social.
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My IS daughter was just accepted for nursing. She submitted a 1400 SAT. GPA/ 4.0/5.389. 10 APs, including 4 senior year (Gov, Econ, Bio and Stats). Don’t let off the rigor in senior year, especially if using the senior early dismissal that’s common in the Upstate.
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my d deferred OOS nursing as well. Much worse stats than yours. Not that it helps you, but your post made me and her feel better. She was probably closer to the defer/reject line than the admit/defer line so she is now happy she got deferral. Your DD must be close to the admit/defer line, so good luck in RD and the rest of the process.
IS Daughter also accepted into nursing!!
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S25’s high school does not rank. We are OOS. He was accepted last night and knows 2 girls from his school who were accepted last night, too. (He knows kids who were deferred as well). I wonder how they work around that? He is at a very strong public school - but they don’t rank.
Most schools that don’t rank have a way to let the colleges know what percentile they fall in. Our HS doesn’t let anyone know their rank, but it exists, and usually the top figure it out themselves. Two of my kids were chosen for scholar/athlete county awards and needed their gpa/test scores/class rank for the presentations.
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Thank you. Good luck for Clemson and in all opportunities!!!
Agreed. There are several behind-the-scenes indicators for schools that don’t explicitly rank - percentiles/bands, questions on counselor report, etc.
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UGA Is amazing!!! My kid is there-- you should be proud. Ton deferred
I am confused… so you can’t get “good” housing if you don’t commit by 2/12? That seems crazy when the deadline is 5/1. I have never heard of that. Most schools let you put down as deposit without committing-- some even before you’re accepted!
I meant to say that your child’s stats and resume are very good (as good or better than my accepted S25 (Engineering). I think this indicates 1) your child is a strong candidate and 2) the deferral was likely due to selection of a closed major. Based on my S23 who was also accepted EA (Microbiology with Biomed focus), my suggestion to your child would be to revise their major to a Biosciences major (at Clemson, that have Microbio, Genetics, Biochem, Biology but no Molecular Bio) instead of Health Sciences. He/she can still access health sciences advisors etc if their longer term goal is to apply to graduate health sciences (MD, PA, Pharm-D, etc etc). There is no need to major in health sciences - as long as the pre-reqs are taken, students can apply into graduate health sciences programs with any degree (including non science). I suspect this, combined with senior year rigor/success, current stats, etc will give a VERY good shot at acceptance RD. RD in February is still quite early and leaves plenty of time for decision making, housing, etc. Otherwise, as another poster said, UGA is a great option! My same S25 accepted EA to Clemson was deferred there, which goes to show you your child’s stats are well within threshold for acceptance, and any decision otherwise is likely due to closed major choice vs. college acceptance idiosyncrasies