I would not consider applying to Clemson . They had a record number of applications this year and a large number of high stats students have been waitlisted, deferred, bridged or rejected. What is your budget ?Most opportunities for merit have have passed.
It’s amazing how consistent the championship bump is
to clarify, I have been accepted to another of my safety schools, but largely prefer UT. How might I go about appealing? Do I have a case with my GPA issue? I effectively began behind the curve my sophomore year with an artificially low GPA, and am now on the very edge of auto-admission, not to mention test scores far higher than the mean. What are the chances of a successful appeal?
@I…wanna…be…Brown Actually , the number of applications to Clemson has risen drastically over the past 5 years.
An appeal into business would be extremely difficult. They do not take into account senior grades, and even if you broke the top 7% threshold, only your application class rank is considered.
Were you offered CAP?
I was offered CAP, I am only appealing liberal arts
You can’t make your case based on GPA.
You ONLY way of having, perhaps, a shot, is 1° presenting your new class rank and 2° applying to a less requested major. All I can find that’s close to Business is Economics in the CLA (guessing that was your second major) and Sports Management (College of Education And Health Development).
Your odds aren’t very good at this point, especially for a competitive major.
ASU Barrett? Truman State, Mizzou? UVermont? Muhlenberg is still accepting applications, I think.
U Oklahoma?Ole Miss? UAlabama? UArkansas? (Check if any one of them is still accepting applications for Honors).
wow, we are on the similar boat. My daughter got ACT of 32, class rank of 9%, GPA 4.3. Texas resident. Got rejected. So angry.
Nobody outside the guaranteed class rank should assume it is anything except a reach, in-state or out.
@mdking323 : what are your daughter 's safeties?
With these stats she had a good shot at aes and CollegiumV at UTD. I hope she applied.
If she needs safeties, some colleges are still accepting applications, either rolling admission universities even if we’re past the priority deadline as well as a few private colleges trying to capitalize on top schools ’ ED2 rejection.
You can also appeal, applying for a less selective major, especially if like OP her rank nudged closer to top 7%.
I’m genuinely curious, because it seems to happen more often in Texas, vs. say Californians thinking Berkeley or UCLA are safeties (or shoo-ins), Virginians with UVA, etc:
Why do people forget that UT is a top school, one of the best research universities nationally, and as such is not a safety but a reach (except for top 7% students and not for Engineering, Business, and some much-requested majors)?
A reach = too many high quality applicants, odds of admission regardless of stats are lower than odds of rejection. Stats increase or decrease odds of admission within these parameters, so odds of rejection may be 60% or 95%… But when a university is a reach it means it’s likely the student will be rejected.
Thx. She was automatic admitted to UTD. Still waiting for other universities. But this is the university she wants to go. Based on those scores, college of arts is a very reasonable fit. I could never imagine it became so competitive all of sudden. How to appeal? Her last ACT of December was 33. Did not send due to deadline.
What major?
Has her class rank increased senior year? (They use class rank in June junior year but will consider first semester senior rank if it’s better).
@htxscholar Just from reading your comments on this thread, it seems like you really were not that interested in going to UT until they rejected you. If that is true, just forget about UT and focus on your other options (you can go ahead and appeal but it is unlikely to be successful). I just think that you might be a bit freaked out by not having any acceptances in your hand at this point. In my opinion, here are your options:
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Check in with the LACs where you are a potential recruited athlete. If one of the coaches there can give you some assurance that you will probably be accepted, you will feel much better about the UT rejection
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Sign up for the UT CAP programme. I don’t know why you are not keener on this. I don’t know anything about the other UT campuses, but would spending a year in say, a major city like San Antonio be the worst thing in the world if you were pretty much guaranteed a transfer to Austin for sophomore year? (You could always become a Spurs fan for a year!)
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Apply to another 1 or 2 safeties, but only if you really want to go there. There is no reason to apply to, say, Arizona State if you have no desire to go there.
Good luck!
^Regarding 2): CAP means the student can only choose a liberal arts major for sophomore year, and not all students are interested in American Studies or Anthropology or Russian Studies. Economics would be possible though. Another reason is that the majority of CAP’ed students are sure, since they’re good students in HS and the capped university is easy to get into, that they’ll do well and meet their conditions… but in the end, most don’t, and are thus stuck at a campus they didn’t want to attend and doesn’t necessarily meets their need.
So competitive all of a sudden? I’m pretty sure that UT-Austin has been competitive and no guarantee for non-auto-admits for years now.
Yes, the law has been in place since before the students applying this year were born (1997).
^ @MYOS1634 Good points. I assume that he is also applying to LACs that he would presumably find a liberal arts major at UT that he would be happy with and given his high stats in high school (plus the carrot of a UT - Austin seat sophomore year) that he would be able to meet the requirements of the CAP programme to transfer.
In any event and assuming that he has applied to a mix of LACs he will probably end up in one of those schools next year so this conversation becomes moot!
@htxscholar if you want to pursue an appeal, contact admissions office at UT and ask them about the process. You can also ask about the possibility of re-applying next year as a transfer student (take first year business classes at another college) if you really have your heart set on UT. Unfortunately, I don’t know UTs transfer policy and perhaps it’s even harder to get in that way, but thought I’d suggest it in case no one else suggested it. Also talk to your school counselor about the appeal process. Chances are another student at your school might have gone through it before. I will add that University of Houston is still sending my son emails (apply to honors college through March 15) and UT Dallas accepts applications until May 1. First year business courses are likely to be very similar – intro accounting, math, English, economics, and general education requirements. Both have offered very generous merit scholarships, so you could save enough to afford a full 4 years at UT if you wanted to. Good luck.
@carolinamom2boys and it’s the first 5 year stretch that Clemson football has been in the top 20 each year (avg rank 8) since 1987-1991 (avg rank 12)
@i…wanna…be…Brown I’m sure that football plays a role , but their rankings as an institution have steadily risen during that time as well. It doesn’t hurt that it’s a nice campus in a fairly warm state as well.