<p>My son is a junior, out of state, interested in engineering. I filled out their net cost estimator with rough estimates for his stats: 10-20% class rank and 1350 math+reading SAT. It says $7500/yr. Yet I've read on this board that OOS has to be in the top 10% of the class to get any scholarship money. So, is the on-line cost estimator that incorrect? It knows he is OOS,
in fact for in-state it estimates only $1000/yr.</p>
<p>Anyone OOS get scholarship money? If so, were you top 10%?</p>
<p>Usually it’s very hard to get academic recruiting scholarships if you are not in the top 10% of your high school class. Not sure why it is telling you that.</p>
<p>Maybe it is a need based grant? Is your expected family contribution less than the expected costs?</p>
<p>I can tell you from first hand experience that my d was denied a scholarship b/c they estimated her rank to be top 20%, but her ACT was the min for OOS scholarship consideration.</p>
<p>This is from their website: “Domestic out-of-state students with at least a 1250 SAT (CR+M) or 28 ACT and who are ranked in the top 10%* of their high school class will receive a merit scholarship of at least $5000 annually. Students with higher test scores and high school performance outside of the top 10% will be considered for these merit scholarships up to $15,000 annually.”</p>
<p>So they will consider students with lower rank than top 10% if test scores are high. Whether a 1350 is high enough, I have no idea… Aid should be posted online by now.</p>
<p>Hi newma! I just got back from a visit to Clemson, and I myself was hoping to get some financial aid for being OOS, Math + Critical Reading = 1440, ACT =33, and a female in engineering. Unfortunately my class rank is around the 22nd percentile and they would not consider me for merit aid due to that. So, I can say from experience that they don’t really budge on the class rank portion! If your son is truly interested I would recommend applying ASAP, next year’s application goes live on August 1st. The earlier you apply the more likely it is that they leave wiggle room for your stats.</p>
<p>I just put your stats into their calculator and it said $7500 for merit aid. So I guess its not very accurate! Probably designed to get students to apply.</p>
<p>Mrpapageorgio, I guess they have changed some of their financial aid policies then to be more flexible! Disregard my previous answer as I guess I truly do not know what the actual answer (this would be something you can ask admissions/financial aid)</p>
<p>Newma, what did you get when you put your stats into their financial aid calculator?</p>
<p>My D is oos and in the top 10% but her SAT’s where a bit below. Just a bit. We got VERY little aid. It’s a deal breaker. Not sure if I should appeal.</p>
<p>As a final effort, we formally asked for reconsideration given it is
more difficult to be top 10% when the average ACT at her high school
is over 25, compared to a typical hs, her desire to attend Clemson, grade trends, noting other scholarship offers from similar schools and that no scholarship would likely mean not going to Clemson. They were polite but could not budge.</p>
<p>Clemson is now off of the table. Too bad, but as I told them, I know they have to draw the line somewhere.</p>
<p>But given Clemson would be more than 90k more over 4 years than our state school with scholarship, Clemson just isn’t worth that much more to us…particularly as our state school has a higher us news rank.</p>
<p>i live in GA, and i am in the top 7% of my class with a 1270 SAT score and they gave me a $5,000 a year along with a out of state recruiting grant for $2,500</p>
<p>My son’s school does not send rank with the school transcript but he is about 15% he had a 31 ACT and is OOS. He recieved $10K a year in scholarships and the $2500 OOS scholarship. Also, he didn’t apply until Feb. He applied to the engineering program. He was accepted to RPI, WPI, Tulane and UCONN but it looks like Clemson may win out with it geneorous scholarships and overall appeal.</p>