<p>anybody applying to clarkson this year (CC-ers)?</p>
<p>ya i am applyin to clarkson. wondering if clarkson can be considered a safety school?</p>
<p>it is hard to tell.. i have contacted them several times asking for info etc and have recieved no answer... maybe they look regionally and not wider... they have a nice website but they dont communicate well</p>
<p>I have been receiving info from clarkson since freshman year, as with other schools and I would consider them to be a safety school, however I am not applying there this year.</p>
<p>I'm applying to Clarkson this year but I'm asking if it's a safety school. I'm an international student and I made a mistake while sending a mail to them. I referred to them as another university instead of Clarkson, don't know how. How much of an effect will that have on my admission?</p>
<p>I applied in November using the "unconventional" application. Does anyone know when we're supposed to hear from them??</p>
<p>On collegeboard's website, it says they start releasing decisions from february 1st on a rolling basis.</p>
<p>i got my acceptance today. "your future is inside" was written on the envelope The card sings when you open it haha It was pretty exciting. But there wasn't anything about a scholarship :(</p>
<p>I think they said decisions in February, financial in March, so maybe they don't tell you scholarship info until then?</p>
<p>...and although not officially admitted, they left a message last week wanting to discuss the honors program, so I'd say that is a good sign!?!</p>
<p>I received my acceptance letter from the aeronautical engineering department like three-four weeks ago. good luck!</p>
<p>Clarkson seems to have a pretty good demographic spread. </p>
<p>That 30% of the Eng. MECH men drop out after Freshman year is rather worrisome. (The women seem to stick, but they still hover between 10% and 15% - too low in comparison with other eng schools.) </p>
<p>The AERO class seems to hold steady at 30 to 35 men:4 women. Daniel Webster College has historically feed them a fair number of Junior and Seniors. That will take a hit now that DWC has its own ABET-certified AERO program pending. Less then 40 students in a major is awfully small. (data source ASEE 2008 database)</p>
<p>Toadstool, can you tell me where on ASEE you seen that 30% drop out of mech. engineering? I can see the class sizes listed for each of the years, but how do you know how many they started out with?</p>
<p>Does anyone know when financial packages go out>?</p>
<p>ASEE data by major by year by ethnic group - freshman number vs sophomore numbers.</p>
<p>I consider retention a key metric in any college selection. Why work to get into a college, only to be part of the 1/3 that washing out, crushing your soul. </p>
<p>Always look for a college modeled on success, not institutionalized failure and maineing.</p>
<p>But how do you come up with 1/3?
I’m lookinG at the same site … in Aeronautical:
Freshman (total) 40, sophomores 39, juniors 30, Seniors 35.<br>
So, the Jrs have the lowest number… A) How do you know they started with more than that… maybe they only started with 30! B) Even if they did lose 10, that’s not 1/3!</p>
<p>toadstool…I don’t agree with your assessment of Clarkson… first of all a lot of ppl have this idea of college as wild party something to do every second… Potsdam is not a city… it’s rural and I think a lot of ppl have inflated or unrealistic expectations… when the college doesn’t measure up, then those students have nothing but whining complaints… if they wanted city lights and a city that comes alive at 11pm, then they should have gone to nyu or Columbia. So there are going to be a whole bunch that come from metro areas that won’t make the adjustment to rural… so they transfer out after one year… an then there are those who party their way thru the first year and blame everyone but themselves for bad grades and transfer… and then you have the bunch that can’t handle living away from home…and move back home an go locally to school…go on **************.com and yu will hear your fill of whiners as well as those who love the school they are in…Clarkson is one of the top 100 schools for engineering with a 98% job placement for grads… you have to consider variables when you are looking at stats.</p>
<p>on my way, how right you are.</p>