I’m curious if anyone knows of students that were accepted to the Honors College, but who are likely to not attend Clemson after all. My S didn’t apply to the Honors College until after the deadline and will only be accepted as space becomes available. Do most kids who take the time to complete the Honors application, write more essays, etc. tend to attend Clemson if they are accepted? Just trying to gauge the chances of getting in late.
@LuvsLabs my son was accepted and is not attending. The application was just like applying to another school. I think some will choose to go elsewhere.
DD also was accepted to Honors and she narrowed her options after hearing from other RD schools, so declined Clemson through iroar (?) over the weekend. On Tuesday, she received a separate acknowledgment of withdrawal from honors program, so it is clear that Honors is monitoring yield of offers. Good luck!
Hi was wondering if you have heard from Lyceum? I have not seen anything posted here in CC or on the Lyceum website. Thank you @KW
@DutchXC I could be wrong but I seem to recall you only hear something about Lyceum if you get in. @Baxter126 would know for sure as I believe his son was accepted into Lyceum.
Thank you so much for replying my son was really hoping for that incredible opportunity. Congratulations to @Baxter126
I am so confused. How do I view my decision to the honors college? I applied on the December deadline, but I never got an email telling me to check my decision. When I try to look at the application on ApplyWeb, all it tells me is that my application is submitted. What am I doing wrong?
@DutchXC My son is actually a sophomore in the program. I do not know if this year’s acceptance is have gone out yet. Every year has been a little bit different in terms of how they’ve notified. Last year, they took great concern and time to vet and select applicants Due to the fact that the year before many of those who were awarded initially declined the offer for another school later. So they had to basically go back and select much of the cohort. I think they were working hard to determine who truly wanted to be at Clemson and was right for the program.
Due to that, some were not notified until April and May.
I’m not sure how it’s gohng this year. You might want to have your student send an email or call to find out how or when they will be notifying.
Clemson was an interesting experience for us. Perhaps @Baxter126 or @burghdad can chime in on this, but here are my thoughts.
Clemson seems to want to lure OOS talent to improve the university, but they don’t seem to want to say exactly that. So they have a big honors program, National Honors, Lyceum, Eureka, etc. Those programs are out there, but they don’t quite want to say that the right student might be able to snag them all. So the student who might be able to snag them all comes along but never really gets the right lure from the university to make it happen. Clemson perhaps avoids offering those programs to kids who really would value them the most to avoid the rejection when those kids do get accepted at higher prestige schools.
My daughter got her dream school and some solid back-ups, but she also got some anxiety-inducing waitlists and a couple of uncomfortable rejections. Fair enough; it’s up to the admissions committees to suss out the right fit and accept the students they think will actually accept. She applied to close to 20 schools, so the odds were with her on acceptances but she can only attend one. Had we decided to save a thousand dollars and limit her applications, she might have ended up with much more limited choices. We did view Clemson as a safety, but our interest was sincere. I think that she might actually have gone that way if her only other choices had been our state schools with the thinking that a smaller pond might give her more opportunities to shine.
Her high school is a large city school with some very good magnet programs. I can’t overstate the value of how those smart, motivated kids drive each other to greater achievements. I wonder if Clemson would benefit from that model with an upper tier in their honors program along the lines of what schools like Oklahoma and Alabama have done.
So there she is, rejected for National Honors and Lyceum (an email earlier this month) and heading to her dream school. It could easily have gone differently.
My son was accepted and is Tigertown bound. So excited for him. He is wondering… does being in the CHC put him in Core Campus as a freshman or is that a lottery. Is it space available or do frosh generally matriculate through. thanks!
@ncengineer123 It’s totally up to your son where he lives. He can choose to live in the Honors College, which is Core C or D, but he doesn’t have to. The majority of the honors college is freshman, with a smaller number of upperclassman living there. If he lives in the Honors dorms, his roommate does also need to be honors.