Official "Got Confirmation from Clemson" Thread

<p>kandk...
i hope it isn't purely numerical....</p>

<p>is the fafsa required for oos waiver, anybody? I didn't think it was from what I saw on the website/ was told by an admissions person.</p>

<p>ACCEPTED OOS from VA</p>

<p>1400(old) 2050(new)</p>

<p>3.8 GPA</p>

<p>no waiver :( </p>

<p>is there any other way/time when they give out money of any kind (**merit-based though, NOT need-based) ???</p>

<p>ready, I think we're in the same exact position...</p>

<p>Spoke with admissions yesterday-future OOS waiver unlikely given trend of the last two years. Clemson raised the MINIMUM SAT requirement from 1300 to 1350, A average (4.0) and/or top 5-7% in class. Although CU offers more OOS waivers then they anticipate will accept, not enough offerees have declined over the past two years to dip back into the applicant pool.</p>

<p>If you go on the financial aid site, there are other merit based scholarships available that will be awarded in mid-March, mid April.</p>

<p>My D got her acceptance, but no waiver.</p>

<p>OOS Idaho, 30 ACT, 3.8 UW GPA, 39/375 rank in a school with 18 national merit semifinalists. I guess she should have transfered to a crap school.</p>

<p>I just got off the phone with admissions at Clemson. They said OOS tuition waiver requires a top 10% class rank. Doesn't matter how high your grades and SAT/ACT are, the top 10% is a strict cut-off.</p>

<p>Congrats to all who were accepted. S did not get in, but is fine with it. You are all very qualified, great Stats, pat yourselves on the back.</p>

<p>I believe that the 10% rule for class rank probably originates with the US News ranking system. One of the categories in their ranking is the percent of students who were in the top 10% of their class. So remember, if you are top 10% you are gold and if you are 10.4%, as my D, you are dirt.</p>

<p>We live in SC. I'm a Clemson alum. Have 2 nieces at CU. My son has been accepted into Clemson's engineering program. Go tigers!</p>

<p>DGGT -- I hope your D doesn't feel like dirt becaue she didn't get a waiver, or that you don't think she's dirt because she didn't get a waiver. If she's been admitted, obviously Clemson doesn't think it. And if she wasn't admitted, then that means she's a better fit at another school.</p>

<p>Intheknow - thanks for your message. We do not think that she is dirt and I guess that my message is a little bitter, my little tirade against some of the unfairness of the world. I do think that their is definitely some unfairness in viewing all high schools equally and that is apparently the case for the ranking cutoff.</p>

<p>Deferred:
OOS (NY)
3.5 uw gpa
1240 (old) 1900 (new)
lots of EC's, varsity athletics. etc...
just goes to show how much more competitve it got this year</p>

<p>My son was accepted with the following stats:</p>

<p>OOS (NY)
3.7 UW
ACT 28
SAT 1240
47 of 663</p>