Does anyone know if it is harder to get into Clemson over UGA? They have similar statistics but Clemson’s acceptance rate is slightly lower and they received about the same number of applicants last year. Just trying to ease my nerves about UGA friday, thanks to anyone who responds!
Every college is getting more competitive sadly. I got deferred from ga tech, later found out they had a 9% rate this year. It also factors in to how many applicants they take each year. If they take more this year the rate will be lower the next year.
I was accepted into clemson and deferred from UGA
My son was accepted at Clemson, even given a small scholarship, and deferred at UGA.
Clemson’s ranking is lower on USNWR and their admitted student profile is not as strong as UGA’s, so it sounds like they have a good number of less qualified applicants.
It’s a good school for engineering though!
The same thing happened to me! @GABaseballMom
@gougadawgs44 and @braves177, just think of it this way if you don’t get in today, UGA’s loss is Clemson’s gain. Clemson is a great school. I just interviewed a kid who went there undergrad (then on to law school at Emory) and absolutely loved Clemson.
I don’t think UGA is a better school academically, just harder to get into thanks to the Zell and Hope scholarship money.
^^What @GABaseballMom said.
I was reading each of their middle 50 percent for things on their website and the SAT scores seemed similar to me
UGA- SAT-I Middle 50% of Admitted First-Year Students: 1850-2140
CLEMSON-New SAT Middle 50%: 1240-1390 (Average 1312)
(college board provides conversion calculators)
Although UGA had slightly better ACT scores but as for their GPA’s I am not quite sure because for Clemson said their average GPA was a 4.36 (Weighted) and as for UGA the GPA average was-Overall Average of All Enrolled First-Year Students: 3.98. I know UGA only takes core classes into account, I am not sure of Clemson’s GPA calculations though.
Does income have a factor in admissions at all? Like say if I was able to attend UGA out of state with out scholarship money is that taken into consideration at all or no? @GABaseballMom
I’m not sure about UGA specifically. I know many large public universities are being more aggressive about recruiting OOS students who will pay full price as a source of revenue. I just haven’t heard if UGA is one of them.
That was what I was thinking. I know money would never be used as factor of comparison of a student who is OOS cannot afford OOS full tuition to an OOS student that can, but considering how cheap it is to attend there for in-state students due to the scholarships I was wondering if UGA would increase their admissions to OOS to earn more revenue. Thanks! @GABaseballMom
https://www.clemson.edu/admissions/undergraduate/documents/breakfast-presentation.pdf
Clemson calculates GPA the same as S. Carolina per my sister in law (a Ph.D student in Engineering at Clemson). So 1 pt for Honors (a 5 if you have an A) and 2 pts for AP classes (a 6 if you have an A).
UGA doesn’t add weight to your GPA for honors courses, and they only add 1 pt for AP courses.
Our GA HS adds .5 points for honors, 1 for ap/ib courses. It is really crazy trying to figure it all out for each college. Some colleges only look at your “academic” classes and then it becomes, well, is IB Comp Sci an “academic” class (science) or an elective? Our HS categorizes it as an elective. sigh.
TL;DR: they’re both good schools-follow the money.