Clemson has gotten more competitive over the past year. They look primarily at GPA, class rank and standardized test scores . GPA is a little low for admission . For Calhoun Honors College 71% of Honors freshman had an ACT of 32 or 1400 on SAT, 2/3 s of students had an unweighted GPA of at least 3.7 with at least 17 hrs of AP credit and are ranked in the top 2-3 % of their class. Info from Honors info session at Discover Clemson 2015.