I"m not sure, I guess it all depends on how badly you want to attend Clemson. CU is my daughter’s 1st choice and she is adamant about going to Clemson.(Put it this way, she’s giving up some good scholarship) I was told that transition/transfer into Clemson is easier and you don’t have to re-apply. Look at the link https://www.clemson.edu/admissions/undergraduate/…/breakfast-presentation.pdf it gives you last year’s applicant numbers. Every year invitation to the Bridge program has gone up, this year they are offering 800 spots and it’s on 1st come 1st serve. Last year, the Bridge program filled up in 5 days. Now, with that in mind, my question is how many were invited to the Bridge program? Look at the link first…it,s pretty interesting.
S was admitted to engineering, but no mention of scholarship. Does that mean he is not getting a merit award, or might that come later with some students? OOS. Applied 12/20
Stats:
ACT: 36
GPA: 3.3 (3.8 if count only Jr./Sr. years–there’s an explanation); strong college prep
U.S. Presidential Scholar candidate
NMSF
Good EC and leadership
Check this link out, this may help. https://www.clemson.edu/admissions/undergraduate/…/breakfast-presentation.pdf
kb50help - Have a S that is doing the same thing (scholarships and Out of State tuition). He was deferred till Winter '18 and we are trying to decide what to do with that…
this link isn’t working now. Do you remember any of the stats?
I don’t know if this has already been answered but… when and where do RD accepted students find scholarship/financial aid information?? I looked online and couldn’t find anything.
Many found out about merit scholarships in their acceptance letter, but I did see on the website today that financial aid packages will be received by April 1. I’m not sure exactly what that includes.
Our scholarship package came with our admissions letter with the information that it could increase based on her major and so on. When did he apply? Scholars letters in the first batch were received in November.
The class will be around 3250 to 4000 when finalized. Did your daughter hear yet ? Also, they accept by major. What major is she looking at? Some of the majors like education take more in the class than say engineering.
TigerMom2021 - maybe you didn’t word this the way you intended - but there are FAR more engineering students at Clemson than there are education students. Stats available on the site for Clemson College of Engineering say that there were 1167 General Engineering majors in the Fall 2016 freshman class, while the College of Education has only 558 undergraduates (all four years) in the entire college. The education major at Clemson is pretty competitive to get in just by virtue of the smaller number of students it takes.
It actually depends on the number of applicants for spots available @honeysucklerose . If there were 5000 applicants to engineering for 1167 spots, but if only 600 students applied to education major , it would not be more competitive .
I see the point you’re making. If you assume that 1/4 of the 558 College of Education undergrads are Freshman, that would be about 139 spots available for new incoming students. 600 applicants for 139 spots is roughly the same ratio as 5000 engineering applicants for 1167 spots. I just think you needed to pick a different number. If there were only 200 applicants for those 139 spots then your point is better made.
@Another-HS-Senior ~ My son is also OOS and was admitted January 20 to the Computer Science program. He was offered “an out-of-state academic scholarship valued at $60,000 ($15,000 annually).” He did not apply until just after the new year (was deferred from his first choice) and we were surprised to receive an acceptance so quickly. His stats are as follows: ACT - 34 (36 Math); SAT - 1510; unweighted GPA 3.95; National Merit Commended Scholar, National Honor Society, 4 years marching band (1 yr percussion section leader), no athletics after 10th grade but was in almost every high school theatrical production and is currently in his second local Civic production. He has never been to South Carolina - we have a visit planned for the second weekend in April.
The hell is ur son doing at Clemson? Send him to Harvard