Please chance me!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Clemson University
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Hey guys! If anyone could chance me for Clemson, I would be super grateful!

Here’s my info:
White, female, from MD

I go to an extremely rigorous, competetive high school. My GPA wasn’t s great freshman and sophomore year since I transferred from a much less academically challenging middle school and didnt develop good study habits. My GPA has been on a large upward trend since the end of sophomore year.

WGPA: 3.98
UW: 3.48

ACT:
C: 33
E: 33
M: 30
R: 35
S: 32
Writing: 20 (terrible I know…)

APs:
AP NSL- sophomore. B in class both semesters. 3 on exam
AP Psych- junior. B in class both semesters. 4 on exam
AP Environmental Science- junior. A in class both semesters. 4 on exam
AP Lang- junior. A in class both semester. 4 on exam
AP Comp Gov- senior, haven’t gotten grades or taken exam yet
AP Lit- senior, haven’t gotten grades or taken exam yet
AP AB Calc- senior, haven’t gotten grades or taken exam yet

Work and Volunteer Experience:
Puree Artisan Juice Bar, 15 hours/week, Purista (11 and 12)

St. Bernard Project, 40 hours/week, participant (2014) and co-planner (2015)
A group of MD students travelled to New Orleans for a week over the summer to assist in rebuilding homes still damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Extracurriculars:

School newspaper, Layout Editor (12), Web editor (11), and staff writer (10)
Schools newspaper and online resource. Currently work with staff writers to create interesting layouts for their pages.

Operation Stars and Stripes (11 and 12)
We set up a military inspired obstacle course for students to complete, all funds raised go to Walter Reed Medical Center for injured veterans/family.

Dreamcatchers, (11)
DreamCatchers is a non-profit foundation that strives to grant the final Dreams of hospice patients (terminally ill with 6 months or less to live).

Rock Climbing Club, Treasurer (11 and 12)
I was in charge of collecting membership dues for the climbing gym- attended twice a week- and keeping funds organized for off-campus trips.

Dance for a Cause, Head of Advertising Committee (11)
We planned the winter dance for the school, all proceeds went to Children’s National Hospital.

Theater Guild, Light crew (10)
With the other member of the light crew, we put together the lighting design and program for the fall and spring shows.

Summer Program:

University of Maryland Young Scholars Program, 3 weeks, student (2015)
Completed an environmental biology class for credit, earned an A

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Clemson looks primarily at GPA, rank and standardized test scores when looking at admissions. I recommend looking at the CDS for Clemson to see where you fall.

3

First of all, you should be fine, but that’s coming from an in-stater. They love high standardized test scores and you’re 2 points above the 75%.

Second of all, if you take a look at the graph in the link below, you’ll see there’s no possible way your writing score could of been that low given your English subscore. They made a mistake on certain tests and it hurt people’s writing score. try and call them see if you can get it fixed.

http://www.actstudent.org/writing/combined.html

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While there is no actual guarantee, I’m sure you will be accepted, especially if you applied early. I’m sure. You have high rigor in your course load, high grades, and excellent test scores (except for that Writing??). Clemson accepted over 50% of females who applied last year.
Good luck.

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Test scores and rigor of highschool courses matter the most.

With a 33 and many APs you should be okay despite a lower gpa than most applying students, particularly out of state.

I doubt they would ever put someone with a 33 composite in bridge. Typically you would be a canidate for honors as well, however, the lower gpa may hurt you there. Expect to be accepted for regular undergrad though.

Goodluck, hope to see you in fall, if your worried put an uncommon major as your second choice.