Stats for Carnegie

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Anonymous wrote:Go to CMU for CS, otherwise it's not worth the tuition. Go to your flagship state public for any other majors if you have the option.

Even for engineering? Please tell me more.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cmu.edu/ira/CDS/pdf/cds_2021_22/cds2021-c-first-time-first-year-admissions.pdf

19878 boys applied, 2122 admitted = 10.7%
13018 girls applied, 2331 admitted = 17.9%

Stop crying about how they don’t want girls.

Are you even reading what is being said in this thread? NO-ONE said CMU doesn't want girls. Everyone agrees CMU tries to have the 50-50 ratio. All the PP said was CMU seem to pick girls who are academically STRONG but leave out those who are STRONGER. It's not hard to understand.

Such claims are stupid, and only reflect the butthurt of people whose kid got denied. 89% of the kids admitted are in the top tenth of their class, 45% had a 4.0 gpa, 94% had SAT over 1400. They are not rejecting stronger kids. What is happening is the same thing that happens at every very selective school - for every strongly qualified applicant admitted, a large number of strongly qualified kids are rejected. What should not be hard to understand is this: the applicants who were admitted were stronger in some way that was important to the admissions committee than the applicants who were rejected. Better extracurriculars, less one-dimensional, more interesting essay, better high school, any number of other factors come into play when you're comparing two kids with a 3.8 to 4.0 gpa and SAT scores over 1400.

My kid got waitlisted in RD from TJ and eventually rejected. 1590 SAT (one sitting), >4.6 GPA, Female, TJ, not one-dimensional at all, several national level awards. I am definitely not going to buy your "Better extracurriculars, less one-dimensional, more interesting essay, better high school, any number of other factors come into play when you're comparing two kids with a 3.8 to 4.0 gpa and SAT scores over 1400."

You are making my point for me - rejected mom is butthurt, and is casting around for spurious reasons it was "unfair".

CM, like any other very selective school, is evaluating thousands of kids just like yours, all of whom have great test scores and grades. For every kid who got accepted, there were five kids just like yours who got rejected. They had to make fine distinctions between very similar applicants, and clearly they found another kid stronger than your kid. You will never know their reasons for that decisions, but they were certainly not saying "we don't want high-achieving girls" as stupid people in this thread are claiming.

I totally understand that you don't think your kid is less one-dimensional and interesting than other kids, but they did.

DP. Holy Sh#t! You all knowing (in your mind) shrill.

🤷‍♂️ You don’t have to know everything to know a kid that didn’t get in was a weaker applicant than a kid that did. All her crying about how great her kid is doesn’t change that. And she won’t say where her kid actually did get admitted, for some reason.

MIT.

DP. Congratulations. So, your DC is only slightly less qualified for admission to CMU SCS. I am sure your DC will make the best of MIT opportunity and will have a bright career.

Are you happy now?

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Anonymous wrote:Go to CMU for CS, otherwise it's not worth the tuition. Go to your flagship state public for any other majors if you have the option.

Even for engineering? Please tell me more.

Engineering at CMU is pretty good, but nothing outstanding, and for the cost?
Many state flagship public schools have comparable or even better engineering. They are much better value if you are in-state.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to CMU for CS, otherwise it's not worth the tuition. Go to your flagship state public for any other majors if you have the option.

Even for engineering? Please tell me more.

Engineering at CMU is pretty good, but nothing outstanding, and for the cost?
Many state flagship public schools have comparable or even better engineering. They are much better value if you are in-state.

Thank you for your response!

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Anonymous wrote:Go to CMU for CS, otherwise it's not worth the tuition. Go to your flagship state public for any other majors if you have the option.

Well, I am glad you made the above comment as if it’s a statement of fact, like the Sun rises in the East. On what basis you made such a bold comment?

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Anonymous wrote:Go to CMU for CS, otherwise it's not worth the tuition. Go to your flagship state public for any other majors if you have the option.

Well, I am glad you made the above comment as if it’s a statement of fact, like the Sun rises in the East. On what basis you made such a bold comment?

Whether you like it or not, it is a statement of fact. Even for CS, there are other schools like GA Tech that are comparable with lesser OOS tuition.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to CMU for CS, otherwise it's not worth the tuition. Go to your flagship state public for any other majors if you have the option.

Even for engineering? Please tell me more.

Engineering at CMU is pretty good, but nothing outstanding, and for the cost?
Many state flagship public schools have comparable or even better engineering. They are much better value if you are in-state.

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Starting salaries do not support your argument.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously the problem is CMU gets too many applicants from TJ and they're sick of them.

We did a special CS tour there. My kid went to TJ and was well qualified for CMU. However, when you look at how many spots there are for CS and the fact that they want 50% girls/50% boys (as well as kids from as many states as possible), it was clear that they would not be taking a stack of kids from just one high school.