63% Male, 37% Female ?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>According to this site, Carnegie Mellon enrollment is 63% Male, 37% Female. I didn't find stats on their site (maybe I just need to look harder). But is this really true? Comments?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.cmu.edu/ira/CDS/pdf/cds_2012_13/b-enrollment-and-persistence.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cmu.edu/ira/CDS/pdf/cds_2012_13/b-enrollment-and-persistence.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>EDIT: or in general, this is a pretty informative page: <a href=“http://www.cmu.edu/ira/CDS/cds_1213.html[/url]”>http://www.cmu.edu/ira/CDS/cds_1213.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks, from that first file it’s 57% male, 43% female, for the undergrads. Maybe those other numbers include grad students.</p>

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<p>I can tell from experience that it certainly isn’t that bad.</p>

<p>Being a major CS/Engineering school (typically male-dominated majors) there are certainly more males. Especially as CIT (College of Engineering) has the largest enrollment in the school. However, the other colleges (College of Fine Arts, Dietrich) aren’t nearly as male-dominated, and some may even have more females enrolled.</p>

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<p>Just looked at the stats for my class. 57% male, 43% female seem to be the entire graduating class, however my class (freshmen) was 53% male and 47% female, and this seems to be the trend now.</p>

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<p>Do the students enrolled in different colleges mix a lot (in terms of dorms, rooming groups, meals, EC’s, parties) or do they tend to self-segregate?</p>

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<p>Definitely
My closest group of friends was the majority of my freshman year floor and pretty much no two people are in the same major. A lot of others find themselves in organizations or greek life which are also diverse groups of students.
It’s really up to you. Some majors/departments tend to stick together but CMU offers a bunch of easy ways of meeting people outside your major as well</p>

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<p>I’ve found a lot of people tend to have two groups of friends at CMU. You have the people you do social things with, maybe you’ve met them in clubs, your freshman year on your hall or whatever. Then there’s the people you do homework with. They tend to be from your major, especially as you get into later years. </p>

<p>These two groups of friends aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive, though. I lived with friends from freshman year all through undergrad, but did lots of social things with both groups. It was nice at the end of the day being able to avoid my classmates if I didn’t want to work on a homework, or just wanted to be scarce since I had already done an assignment and didn’t feel like tutoring everyone for the night. :)</p>