Stats for Carnegie

[Anonymous]

DS is very interested in CMU, anyone's kid recently got admitted, can you please share stats and EC?

[Anonymous]

CS or not? Major makes a difference at CMU.

[Anonymous]

Following - DD is interested in Economics and Statistics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CS or not? Major makes a difference at CMU.

This! I don’t have an answer for you, OP, as my rising senior is also interested— for engineering. When we went to an info session though, they showed acceptance rates by school and they range from 4% to about 20%. So really depends on what school applying to. And CMU doesn’t really let you change schools so you have to know what you want to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS is very interested in CMU, anyone's kid recently got admitted, can you please share stats and EC?

CMU sucks.. really.

[Anonymous]

Check their CDS for past year's stats

[Anonymous]

My DD was waitlisted. 1590. 1 B in competitive HS magnet HS. 1 national level award. Typical type activities. Dad was an alum. Computer Science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was waitlisted. 1590. 1 B in competitive HS magnet HS. 1 national level award. Typical type activities. Dad was an alum. Computer Science.

That is exactly why I say it sucks. CMU doesn't want high performing girls for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD was waitlisted. 1590. 1 B in competitive HS magnet HS. 1 national level award. Typical type activities. Dad was an alum. Computer Science.

That is exactly why I say it sucks. CMU doesn't want high performing girls for some reason.

CMU's top programs are all over 50% female - so that is incorrect. They also have a very high percentage of female faculty. Are you arguing they want low-performing girls? That would make no sense.

For Engineering and CS - top scores are required. Business and social sciences, not so much. The Arts schools are more largely talent-based, but you better be amazingly talented and have top 25% scores. CMU has cut the size of its arts programs with the goal of only graduating those who can make a living with an arts major (no sense in paying 80K a year and waiting tables for the next 40 years).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD was waitlisted. 1590. 1 B in competitive HS magnet HS. 1 national level award. Typical type activities. Dad was an alum. Computer Science.

That is exactly why I say it sucks. CMU doesn't want high performing girls for some reason.

CMU's top programs are all over 50% female - so that is incorrect. They also have a very high percentage of female faculty. Are you arguing they want low-performing girls? That would make no sense.

For Engineering and CS - top scores are required. Business and social sciences, not so much. The Arts schools are more largely talent-based, but you better be amazingly talented and have top 25% scores. CMU has cut the size of its arts programs with the goal of only graduating those who can make a living with an arts major (no sense in paying 80K a year and waiting tables for the next 40 years).

CMU tries to have 50:50 ratio, but my point was it doesn't accept high performing girls who took rigorous math/CS classes. Whether you believe it or not, in my DC's school, all girls who were having a high GPA with rigorous math/CS classes were waitlisted for CMU SCS unless they ED-ied. The girls who were accepted are above-average but with lower GPA/rigor than those who were waitlisted and did not have any extra-ordinary ECs.

[Anonymous]

That sounds like yield protection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD was waitlisted. 1590. 1 B in competitive HS magnet HS. 1 national level award. Typical type activities. Dad was an alum. Computer Science.

That is exactly why I say it sucks. CMU doesn't want high performing girls for some reason.

CMU's top programs are all over 50% female - so that is incorrect. They also have a very high percentage of female faculty. Are you arguing they want low-performing girls? That would make no sense.

For Engineering and CS - top scores are required. Business and social sciences, not so much. The Arts schools are more largely talent-based, but you better be amazingly talented and have top 25% scores. CMU has cut the size of its arts programs with the goal of only graduating those who can make a living with an arts major (no sense in paying 80K a year and waiting tables for the next 40 years).

CMU tries to have 50:50 ratio, but my point was it doesn't accept high performing girls who took rigorous math/CS classes. Whether you believe it or not, in my DC's school, all girls who were having a high GPA with rigorous math/CS classes were waitlisted for CMU SCS unless they ED-ied. The girls who were accepted are above-average but with lower GPA/rigor than those who were waitlisted and did not have any extra-ordinary ECs.

OP, here is your hint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD was waitlisted. 1590. 1 B in competitive HS magnet HS. 1 national level award. Typical type activities. Dad was an alum. Computer Science.

That is exactly why I say it sucks. CMU doesn't want high performing girls for some reason.

CMU's top programs are all over 50% female - so that is incorrect. They also have a very high percentage of female faculty. Are you arguing they want low-performing girls? That would make no sense.

For Engineering and CS - top scores are required. Business and social sciences, not so much. The Arts schools are more largely talent-based, but you better be amazingly talented and have top 25% scores. CMU has cut the size of its arts programs with the goal of only graduating those who can make a living with an arts major (no sense in paying 80K a year and waiting tables for the next 40 years).

CMU tries to have 50:50 ratio, but my point was it doesn't accept high performing girls who took rigorous math/CS classes. Whether you believe it or not, in my DC's school, all girls who were having a high GPA with rigorous math/CS classes were waitlisted for CMU SCS unless they ED-ied. The girls who were accepted are above-average but with lower GPA/rigor than those who were waitlisted and did not have any extra-ordinary ECs.

OP, here is your hint.

The point of ED is to apply for a reach school to have higher chance of acceptance. I don't see a point in ED-ing to a school which accepts students that have lesser GPA/rigor than my student.

[Anonymous]

This is from 2021, but gives you an idea of how much the acceptance rate and stats of students varies at CMU depending on what school within CMU they apply to:

https://infolearners.com/carnegie-mellon-acceptance-rate-2/?amp=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is from 2021, but gives you an idea of how much the acceptance rate and stats of students varies at CMU depending on what school within CMU they apply to:

https://infolearners.com/carnegie-mellon-acceptance-rate-2/?amp=1

Acceptance rates vary a lot but not stats