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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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

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).

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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 [b]were waitlisted for CMU SCS unless they ED-ied.[/b] 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. [/quote]

OP, here is your hint.
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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. [/quote]

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