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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just ran into a third freshman from CMU home for fall break and each one separately said it’s okay/meh/so-so. This really surprised me. One turned 3 ivies down for cmu’s CS program, one is a recruited athlete who really wanted to go there, and one had it as her first choice.

Is this typical or atypical and just a coincidence?[/quote]

It’s known to be a pressure cooker and not a very happy place.[/quote]

It's been like that for years.  Did grad school there 30+ years ago (a specialized Masters program and not your typical EE/CS MS/PHD program).  The undergrads were rarely smiling (then again I wasn't smiling in Distributed Systems either)  It's always been a pressure cooker and quite frankly the campus is not that "pretty/nice" like many other campuses are.  Pittsburgh is much improved now, but not the campus really [/quote]

+2. Literally was told that on tour there and didn't even apply after everyone basically spent my entire visit going on and on about how people disliked it. I mean...when the students running the tour are making gallows humor jokes about the place instead of doing the typical bubbly "I love my school!" thing, you know it's a place for just a certain type of student. And that student wasn't me.

But my co-workers who are CMU alumni loved it.[/quote]

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