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Anonymous wrote:Seems like people don't realize how tiny CalTech's class is. Under 400 kids. So the admit pool is tiny and yield is high.

CMU SCS is probably equally competitive.
Agree Caltech is tiny, a rejection shouldn't be a huge disappointment. Let it go.

What's SCS? Computer Science?

Not pp, yes SCS is the School of Computer Science. The admission rate is super low. During DS’ year in 2021, it was 4% or 6%. It is not a guarantee for even the smartest kids w perfect SATs.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like people don't realize how tiny CalTech's class is. Under 400 kids. So the admit pool is tiny and yield is high.

CMU SCS is probably equally competitive.
Agree Caltech is tiny, a rejection shouldn't be a huge disappointment. Let it go.

What's SCS? Computer Science?

Anonymous wrote:Denied computer science.

FWIW - DC was recruited athlete at CMU. Was told CS was like a 1% acceptance. Very very hard admit at CMU.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like people don't realize how tiny CalTech's class is. Under 400 kids. So the admit pool is tiny and yield is high.

CMU SCS is probably equally competitive.
Agree Caltech is tiny, a rejection shouldn't be a huge disappointment. Let it go.

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Anonymous wrote:In at CMU; rejected Caltech. Math major.

What is DCs profile? ECs etc?

Very Competitive school: top STEM grades, mid humanities grades (B's)
advanced math classes (multi var, linear alg). Calc BC AP (score=5) in 10th grade
One of (ROSS/PROMYS/HCSSiM/SuMAC/Mathcamp)
One of (SSP/Simons/COSMOS/SIMR)
varsity athlete + captain senior year
one more leadership role (for a club) at school
some volunteering
1560 SAT (800M)

What are DC's odds at Ivy Day coming up? Also rejected from Ivy during early round. Not very hopeful...

Cornell likely.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like people don't realize how tiny CalTech's class is. Under 400 kids. So the admit pool is tiny and yield is high.

Even smaller: 245 per class!!!

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Anonymous wrote:In at CMU; rejected Caltech. Math major.

What is DCs profile? ECs etc?

Very Competitive school: top STEM grades, mid humanities grades (B's)
advanced math classes (multi var, linear alg). Calc BC AP (score=5) in 10th grade
One of (ROSS/PROMYS/HCSSiM/SuMAC/Mathcamp)
One of (SSP/Simons/COSMOS/SIMR)
varsity athlete + captain senior year
one more leadership role (for a club) at school
some volunteering
1560 SAT (800M)

What are DC's odds at Ivy Day coming up? Also rejected from Ivy during early round. Not very hopeful...

Seems like people don't realize how tiny CalTech's class is. Under 400 kids. So the admit pool is tiny and yield is high.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't CMU way less selective than CalTech?

Not exactly. They like different type of students. Based on my public school, CMU admits the top students with perfect scores, competition awards, USCO Goold, etc. Cal Tech like the one involved in deep research. I knew at least 2 students who getting into CalTech with GPA even not in top 10%. But both had good research experiences, publishing paper, attending conferences, etc.

I have a student who has done deep research. Published. Perfect stats. (not a brag. just trying to find them a place that won't deny based off of yield protection or deny because they don't have the awards. Just a hard, hard worker who didn't like comps) Where does that student fit?

With research but without competition awards, generally this is Cal Tech type in our school. You need to send all research materials including conference posters. Cal Tech will let accordingly professors to read and judge. MIT definitely likes competitors. CMU seems to prefer the ones with perfect scores and competitions too. But I am not a college counselor. This is just based on our public school in the past several years. If I were you, I'd apply all of them, but focus on Cal Tech.

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Anonymous wrote:CMU has high acceptance rate like 20%, right?

no lower gtech oos 13, cmu 10 percent

That's wrong. GT OOS acceptance rate was 9% last cycle it's around 8% this cycle. CMU is around 12 percent

intresting, dd deciding btw the two
whats mit for females?

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Anonymous wrote:CMU has high acceptance rate like 20%, right?

no lower gtech oos 13, cmu 10 percent

That's wrong. GT OOS acceptance rate was 9% last cycle it's around 8% this cycle. CMU is around 12 percent

Anonymous wrote:how hard is cmu admit to engineering from dmv?

Their overall acceptance rate is just shy of 12%, so easier than some of the top publics for Engineering OOS. Sort of a niche student school as well so they don't see the vast numbers of applications some of the forementioned other programs would that have single digit OOS acceptance rates. So I would imagine for the DMV acceptance rate would be around 14% higher than their average.

how hard is cmu admit to engineering from dmv?