Palmetto Proving Grounds

It is a great program. I know several kids that take advantage of that. Also easier on the parent's wallets...I think USC does some similar stuff but doesn't market it like Clemson does...

My college has a bridge program, when some of the bridge students tell me their test scores I just shake my head. But since my beautiful gf got in that way I can't complain too much.

I think it is a good program as well, but if they are going to take those students money, they should have to include them in their average SAT and other enrollment statistics.

A rough estimate of the costs for this program is 15k/per year. That includes the required housing fee at the 5 star resort they make you stay in as well as the "Bridge Program" fee you are required to pay. Of course none of that gaurantees admission to the university after completing the program.

On the other hand tuition for a full time 15 hour student at Tri-County, Greenville Tech, Midlands, or Tri-dent is roughly 5-6k. I think I'd rather pay 6k live at home and take my chances with the admission board after I gained my 30 hours.

Sounds like extortion to me really.

USC doesn't do anything like that. Midlands and USC do not communicate at all, and you have to check everything you take to make sure it transfers.

I work with a guy who doesn't have the grades to get on the farm( god help him, I don't know how he doesn't have a .9 GPA ), so he is in the bridge program. He has to make a certain GPA, then he gets to go to the promised land.

What is weird to me is that he is going to live on campus with the fat girls and the better looking pigs. How does that work? I guess klimpson uses the bridge program to add to their enrollment, when a lot of them never even become klemmers.

Also, Midlands doesn't know which classes transfer, they just tell you to ask USC. They should communicate better.

Look up the program. The "apartment" costs $6,300. That is more than $700/per month. This is Clemson we are talking about, not downtown Charleston, and they require you to live there. It would be one thing if this is a dorm, but it is privately owned real estate, built by a local developer and Clemson booster.

The "bridge program" fee is another $2,600, just to have an advisor from Clemson to tell which classes transfer and which don't. For the record about 2 hours worth of research and I could give you this info on my own.

I went this route. I gathered 36 hours at Clemson and at Tech schools in one year so I could transfer to USC. I went to the USC admissions office and sat down with a counselor for "free" and said exactly what do I need to transfer. I walked out with a list of the 30 hours required and was a full time USC student 1 year later, and saved the money.

are you asking him as a student, or a parent?
Of course, students want to stay there. Who wouldn't want to give in a gated community on the lake with everything from lazy rivers, taning beds and even spas. You get your own bedroon and bath. Student? Heck yes

But go talk to the parents I know. They will tell you straight up this is robbery. They force a resort on you at resort costs. The parents I know are outraged. But they have zero options.

4 the kids not smart enough to get in to start with..... do not live on clemson campus.... it is a high priced joke if you ask me...... my boss's son did not get in but was accepted to the bridge program.... he got in everywhere else uga carolina college of charleston furman..... he grew up a clemson fan but after going up there and visiting what the bridge program was all about he has decided to become a gamecock..... his words they wanted me all the way the first time

I know there ar a lot of students who do the bridge pragram with qualifying sat scores but on the boarder line. Clempson is garnishing out of state money by admitting as many out of state kids as they can getting the high tuitions fees knowing full well that about 35 to 40% will party there assses off and mommy and daddy will pull them out. that is why the availability to transfer in to upper classes ie sophmore and junior level courses is so easy.
it is business... the school is making money bottom line. this also allows them to take only the upper level SAT scores for the statistics

My niece goes to tri county . She is highly intelligent when it comes to SCHOOL work . She likes being close to home and refuses to go to Clemson .

I hope she transfers to USC. As long as she is going to school and making good grades I will be proud of her... No matter where it is