Is your iRoar information the same as your portal login?
no you have to set up a clemson username instructions are in the email sent out by financial aid on how to login to iRoar
I don’t really understand Clemson’s merit money strategy. I can’t imagine that the difference between $45K and $55K per year really would entice an extremely high stats OOS student to come to Clemson. It’s definitely a nice gesture and would be appreciated, but it’s likely only going to appeal to students who were already going to attend to Clemson. The merit money in no way attracts high stats kids, and their cost is almost always significantly higher than similarly ranked schools.
I compare this to a school like Alabama. For NMFs, they cover the COA for 4 years and will also cover a fifth year of tuition. This entices students who would not otherwise consider Alabama.
Without significant merit money, Clemson is on par with several private universities, many of whom have endowments to offer some students a reason to attend. I believe many high stats kids are choosing other schools because of the merit structure at Clemson.
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does anyone know when the stats of the middle 50% for this years admissions will come out?? their website still only has from 2019 and I feel like that’s no longer accurate data for juniors trying to gage their chances for next year.
It seems like it may relate to the article someone posted on the thread about SC shifting to prioritizing in-state students.
As someone from NC, I cannot complain because that is certainly what NC does. However, that strategy works a little better in terms of still being able to draw top OOS students when your state schools are highly ranked overall (i.e. includes a public ivy), plus very highly in some areas, or at least highly ranked in key disciplines like engineering and computer science. It’s going to be difficult to draw students to a >T50 school by charging T50 prices for OOS.
You are correct that they will find little success in drawing top OOS stat students with what they are offering this year. While this thread is a small sample, in this sample it looks like they are basically batting 0 from OOS. It may make more sense for Clemson going forward to be more strategic and offer bigger packages to fewer versus smaller packages to more students.
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I 100% agree with your last sentence. This is what my husband and I discussed last night - if the point is to draw top OOS students, offering bigger packages to fewer students is the way to go. No OOS student is going to commit to Clemson simply because they received a $2,500 scholarship, but if you eliminate 4 of those scholarships and add that $10K to the top existing scholarship, Clemson becomes a lot more compelling. We love Clemson, but the finances are going to make it hard, especially when my daughter will have several full rides from comparable schools.
If Clemson offered a full tuition scholarship for OOS (not National Scholars), we would be all in! Right now, National Scholars is the only way to do that, and there are less than 5 that go to OOS students. And that program is insanely competitive.
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My son just declined his Clemson offer and his 11,000.00 a year. In his decline form they asked what it would have taken from a merit scholarship for him to consider attending. Maybe if enough people answer that question they will reconsider their merit structure. It doesn’t make any sense for my son to go to Clemson over UGA in state with free tuition. At least when my older son applied they had a 20k merit scholarship for OOS which did make a significant dent in tuition.
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i haven’t been on this thread in a while-- but is the financial aid package I received a few days ago my “academic scholarship”??? it was not very much money at all, and i am OOS 
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Yes, unfortunately, that’s it.
oh wow, but thanks for the info
where can we view the actual tuition cost? not the fa
i used this from last yr but it’s not updated to 21-22 yet
Hope you are getting some clarity for both of your D21s - on this end, Clemson and USC are now both out for S21.
Any idea when honors decisions come out?
Thanks ! That’s interesting on your end. Yes Clemson is out for us too, but one D still very interested in USC.
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Tigerwife92-- We are OOS. My son has a 97.8 unweighted GPA, 101.3 weighted GPA, in top 3% of his class (rank 7 out of 338) and a decile of 1. All he was offered was the $5,500 loan. I don’t get it.
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Did he apply TO?
And did he apply before Dec 1st?
Same here, S21 (OOS from VA) will decline. To be honest, I really don’t feel like S21 owes them any sort of explanation on the form, just like they haven’t given any explanation for their decisions or merit offers. Not salty about it, as I get this is just how the process goes in general and esp. this year as an unprecedented circumstance for Clemson.
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I agree that he doesn’t owe them any explanation. However, providing constructive feedback about what it would have taken for your son to commit may help future applicants.
My daughter has shown demonstrated interest in Clemson, and she has attended a handful of recruiting events. They sent her a survey asking about the things that are most important in deciding where she will attend college, Scholarships was one of the options. I wonder if they are realizing that their merit aid isn’t working as intended.