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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CMU is a quant school.  UVA is not a quant school.  They tend to attract very different types of students.  I'd be mindful of the difference in cost, though.  [/quote]

Don't know much about UVA other than by reputation.

I do know about CMU from personal experience.  It's strong in science and engineering and finance on the one hand, and it has a conservatory-level theater program on the other.  But there's little in between.  My impression is that it's a rather joyless environment, with lots of children of tiger moms striving and grinding away.  In short, not your typical college experience.  You likely won't be returning year after year for reunions.

Save your money.  Send the kid to UVA.[/quote]

My husband is a CMU grad, we are now in our 40s. His friends might not go to reunions - but they do go on annual trips, one is the executor of our will, one family just left after a "social-distanced" backyard dinner, etc.

I think it probably isn't a school for kids of tiger parents, they are usually about status, CMU is more about intelligence and working hard.  It definitely is not a school that the hardest part is getting in, students have to work - isn't that what parents pay 75k a year for?[/quote]

"Isn't that what parents pay 75k a year for?"

Not exactly.  Parents pay about half that amount for their own kid; if they are willing to pay the other half, it's to subsidize someone else's kid.[/quote]

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