<p>I am currently a freshman at Clemson majoring in Economics (Pre-Business now). If you have any questions feel free to ask them here, or over PM if it is more personal. </p>
<p>My background- I am from Louisville, KY and I choose to go to Clemson because of the experience and the scholarships I received. I am a member of the honors college, but I do not live in the dorms. Currently, I am set to graduate in 2010 with a major in econ and minor in finance.</p>
<p>how is the weather?</p>
<p>The weather has been really nice. It was a bit too hot for the first few weeks (~90 degrees), but other than that is has been amazing. The past few weeks have been around 60, so that has been nice. I have always liked having seasons, but that quickly subsided when I thought of walking across campus at 10 degrees. We have been in a drought this year, so we haven't even had much rain. The only time I was really uncomfortable was 'camping' outside for BC tickets (you only need to camp to get good tickets). It went below freezing at night, and we didn't bring a tent.</p>
<p>I'm a senior from NH thinking about the school and i wandering how Clemson i socially for out of state kids? Are all the SC kids only with their friends from high school or town? And i also got into Elon and was wondering a few reasons of why to choose Clemson over it.</p>
<p>There is a lot of stuff to do for out of state students, but it is a state school and a lot of students are already in groups. Most of my good friends are from out of state. If you join a fraternity, club, sport, etc you should have no problem meeting people. The SC kids tend to hang out together, but they are friendly to new people. Overall, the campus is very friendly. </p>
<p>I had the awkward experience of having housing somehow mess up my application, and I ended up in the student apartments with three other freshman (One being my requested roommate from home). Even though I haven't had that group of people you know immediately from your hall, I have still been able to meet a large amount of people. I have never felt like and outsider being from out of state, but a lot of people do know each other beforehand and hang out in their high school groups. </p>
<p>Clemson seems to be a very different school from Elon. I have a friend at Elon and he absolutely loves it. I recommend visiting both if you haven''t already and compare the schools firsthand. Although Clemson is a larger school, all of my classes this semester have had 20-30 people, except one class. My larger class had ~100, but the professor was amazing, and the class had a lab section of 20-30 students in addition to the lecture. As far as why to choose Clemson, it has great school spirit, athletics are more than amazing, friendly campus, great teachers, and a beautiful campus. I can see how some people would prefer another school over Clemson based on their tastes, but I don't think anyone would be unhappy at Clemson.</p>
<p>Hi I just had a quick question regarding golf at Clemson. Does the golf course right next to the Clemson campus, The Walker Course, offer any membership plans for Clemson students. Thanks</p>
<p>James</p>
<p>I know the course offers a discounted rate for students, but I am not sure what they do for memberships. Give them a call and I'm sure they could tell you.</p>
<p>could you pick your top 3 pros and your top 3 cons about clemson?</p>
<p>Pros- Atmosphere, faculty, students</p>
<p>Cons- Recruiting for what I want to do</p>
<p>I can't think of any other real cons right now. I wish I had joined more groups (I put all my time into trying out for a club sport that only took one freshman because more than a few seniors are doing a 5th year), but that is nothing against the university.</p>
<p>thanks for all your answers! it is nice to hear such positive feedback!</p>
<p>No problem, keep the questions coming.</p>
<p>I thought I would let you all know that I am exploring my options to transfer. I absolutely love everything that is Clemson, but I am not sure where it can place me for the type of banking/investing I want to do. I have recently decided that I would love to do mergers & acquisitions, venture capitalism, consulting, etc. I hadn't even thought of transferring until I came home for break, and there is at least 95% chance that I will be staying. I'm sure that my worries will subside next semester, when I will be spending almost all my time in the Econ. department but I figured I would explore my options now just in case. </p>
<p>Happy Holidays to all of you.</p>
<p>Mitch - hope you had a great holiday. Yesterday, my son received his admission notification (engineering) and OOS tuition waiver (35 ACT and 3.94 UGPA). Even with the waiver, it would be much more expensive than Univ of TN since he already has $8K in guaranteed scholarships to go there (in state) and has not yet heard about additional money. Clemson says he will hear more in the spring about merit based scholarships. Do you know how long we should expect to wait. Thanks for your time and best wishes with regard to your personal decision.</p>
<p>P.S. He likes the Clemson campus and feel more but also is not wanting to be in debt.</p>
<p>RJ</p>
<p>Rj....When did you apply? I haven't herd back from them yet.... Does anyone know why?</p>
<p>I remember getting my scholarship information sometime before April. The National Scholars program is the largest scholarship (full tuition), and most others will be a few thousand dollars each (you can get more than one). </p>
<p>I wouldn't worry about it. You should get one back by the date posted.</p>
<p>esmitty, we applied about a month ago. They are saying you'll know by February but I guess that's just a "no later than" date.</p>
<p>mitch,
if i visit, what things are "a must" to see and/or do?</p>
<p>I would try to get as much of a feel for the campus and people as possible. By this I mean try to visit during the week, spend some time hanging around campus, go to a dinning hall, etc. If you are visiting while there is a game, I would also try to go to that. It will be hard to not love Clemson if you 'get into' the campus and people.</p>
<p>I thought I would give this a quick update as my second semester has started. Since I have returned to campus, the thought of transferring has not crossed my mind. I have great teachers in all of my classes (minus math, but that's almost a given), and it should be a challenging semester. If anyone has visited this week, I hope they mentioned the library bridge being closed. It is the center of campus, and there is always something going on. They are redoing the walkway. </p>
<p>Congrats to all the admits so far, and keep the questions coming if you have them.</p>
<p>Hi Mitch!
I have been accepted to Clemson as well as the Calhoun Honors College, and I just had a few questions that I hope you can help me out with. What do you think of Holmes Hall? I know you did not live there your freshman year, but do kids generally like it? Also, I am planning on pursuing business degree, is the "Clemson Business Experience" a program you apply to? I read about it, but am not sure how it works. Thanks!</p>
<p>Holmes is great. A lot of my friends live there, and they all love it. There seems to be a lot of group unity with them (most have classes together), and many of them are very good friends. This is not to say that being in Holmes limits you to those students, but there are very friendly with each other- probably because many are from out of state. The hall itself is very nice. The rooms are large, especially when the beds are bunked. Holmes won't be having hall parties like some of the other dorms, but it is a great place to be. </p>
<p>I'm not sure if the CBE requires an application or not. I know at orientation that they were looking for more students to sign up for it, so I don't believe one is needed. Check out business.clemson.edu. On a side note, Honors students get free New York Times, and business students get free Wall Street Journal.</p>