This is the official thread for those applying to the Honors College at Clemson University. List your unweighted GPA, any SAT/ACT scores, and ECs. What majors are you going into? Ask your questions, the CC community is here to help!
I understand decisions will be released in the next few weeks. Does anyone have any idea on when exactly the decisions will be released? I think they released February 1st last year but they changed it to mid Jan this year but am unsure.
Parent of boy/girl twins planning to attend out of state schools, with son headed to Indiana University, thus, the member name. However, daughter was recently accepted into Clemson Honors and was curious if admission to Honors College traditionally results in additional scholarship opportunities for her?
My daughter was accepted to honors.
In state
UW gpa 3.9
ACT 32
Plans to major in genetics with a plan to eventually be an ob/gyn
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Hey, congrats to your daughter for getting accepted into honors! I was also accepted into honors at Clemson and offered a merit scholarship. There was an extra line in my normal decision letter to Clemson saying I received a scholarship and would know how much I would receive in March/April. The scholarship was not attached to my honors college decision, so read each line of the normal Clemson acceptance letter again and see if it says anything.
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Much appreciated and congrats on the merit scholarship as well. Curious, if you don’t mind, what your stats were as I’ve read elsewhere merit scholarships at Clemson are very limited and while yours came with regular admission, the honors college scholarships are even more limited. My daughter is coming in with 3.9 UW GPA, 33 ACT and although EC likely didn’t have much impact on regular admissions, those likely helped with her Honors App review as she was quite active across many areas in HS. She plans to major in Business with intent to design an Entrepreneurship / Leadership focused curriculum where possible.
I’d be happy to. Here are my stats:
OOS (VA)
4.5/4.0 gpa, 3.9/4.0 UW, 1530 SAT
6 AP classes (most possible at my school)
Volunteer EMT in grandfather’s rural Idaho town during the summer
Elective research on rural healthcare access
I play the piano and sing holiday tunes at nursing homes each Christmas
Head of student-led a cappella group
Head of chess club
Piano lessons since Kindergarden
School jazz band pianist and singer
Varsity lacrosse and lifting
Strong essays (I forget the exact prompts for Clemson but I wrote my common app on playing in a big piano concert with one hand because I broke the other wrist, my other essays were generally about cool stories from being an EMT and how I plan to use my research to help my grandfather’s town).
Clemson was one of my safety schools. I’m probably going to go to UNC of Vanderbilt (accepted UNC, deferred Vanderbilt).
I also want to go into medicine, specifically trauma surgery.
Your daughter has very similar stats to me. Assuming she has some solid extracurriculars, she should be in good shape. Good luck to her; with those stats, I know she will do great things and end up in the right place. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask them.
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Just trying to understand or see some light on why I was denied from Honors. I have a 4.72 weighted GPA, 4.0 weighted, 1400 SAT, work 2 jobs, I’m an eagle scout and do countless hours of community service through scouts and NHS. I do club DH mountain biking outside of school, played Unified Bocce for the school, 6 AP’s where I got three 5’s, two 4’s and one 3, 5 dual enrollment college classes. I also am bilingual (I’m white) and received the Seal of Biliteracy from the department of education in my state. I’m also apart of countless clubs, and had extremely strong letters of recommendation. In my essays I talked about how I went to mexico by myself at 16 years old for 3 weeks and how that changed my life. I applied early action and was deferred, then denied at regular decision. I appealed the denial using the reconsideration form, and was just denied again. I honestly think that they simply did not look at my application, because I am just thinking that there’s no way. Although I’m disappointed, I keep my head high I want to know what I can do so that when I apply next year, I can hopefully get in.