<p>k i have a friend who goes to CIT now, and from what i've heard,
the admission at CMU will be harder this year. so last year, they've
accepted 1600 or so students. of course, they were only expecting
something like 1000 to actually enroll, HOWEVER, it happened to be</p>
<p>1300 students who ended up enrolling at CMU.....</p>
<p>so he was saying "it might be harder this year" and I think it makes
quite a lot of sense. how do you smart guys think about this?</p>
<p>bump.. guys come on
you've got to have an opinion on this!</p>
<p>I don't know, but the class of 2009 is 1300ish students too. CMU always overenrolls a bit (usually by accepting people off of the waitlist), which in the past resulted in the last students to send in their deposits living in temporary housing, a hotel about a mile from campus (always males). This year, they housed all of the students they had no rooms for on campus in lounges and by temporarily putting third people in doubles, because 'feedback showed students would prefer this option.' It could be that students said that, it could be an attempt at saving money, or it could be that they had girls with no rooms.</p>
<p>I think CMU accepts more than 1600; their yield is not that high... I think that the applicant pool is growing, and CMU is not accepting any more people than in the past (right now, there's a bit of a space shortage on campus because the Gates building is under construction, and there isn't quite enough housing), which makes admissions harder.</p>