<p>Does anyone know the acceptance rate for HSS ED? Is the rate highter for ED than RD? Oh and is it harder to get into as undecided major?</p>
<p>I would like to know as well.</p>
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<li><p>To my knowledge there are no ED acceptance rate stats published for individual colleges. However, HSS loves ED admits, so for a rough estimation I’d take the RD admission rate and tack on 5-10%. </p></li>
<li><p>Short answer: Yes, for individual colleges. However, under ED, you can only apply to one school, whereas with RD you can apply to all the colleges if you so wish. So you have a much higher likelihood of getting accepted to HSS under ED, but you have a higher likelihood of getting accepted to CMU in general under RD. If that makes any sense, haha. If HSS is the only college you’d want to attend, apply ED. If it’s not, apply RD.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes, but not too much harder. All HSS freshmen start off as undecided and they encourage us to stay undecided until our junior year. The HSS curriculum is structured so that any major can be completed in only two years so they give you two years to dick around and figure out what you like. Many HSS kids change their majors several times - in fact, pretty much every one of my HSS friends has altered their major, if not their minor as well.</p></li>
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<p>I actually did see ED acceptance stats posted by school a while back. This really weird though - almost every school I looked at had about a 20% higher acceptance rate. Except CMU. If the data on the chart was right, their ED acceptance rate is about 5% lower than the regular acceptance rate, but it actually ends of being higher overall because you can be deferred then accepted. I know it sounds weird but i’m 99% sure that’s what I remember seeing.</p>
<p>^ Yep! That is true of the university overall - the ED admission rate is slightly lower than the RD admission rate overall, but is higher for individual colleges. As explained before, this is because under ED you can only apply to one college, whereas with RD you can apply to as many colleges as you want and be considered uniquely for each. The acceptance rates of individual colleges are likely to be slightly higher than the RD acceptance rate, purely because those acceptances are guaranteed to matriculate and will not be able to compare financial aid offers. </p>
<p>If you know of where those ED stats by school are located, could you post them? 
It would be really helpful to future ED applicants.</p>
<p>Well I can’t seem to find the list I was looking at before. But this list has a good number of schools, but not CMU for some reason.</p>
<p>[Admission</a> Statistics: Acceptance Rates - Early vs. Regular | InLikeMe](<a href=“http://www.inlikeme.com/admission-statistics-acceptance-rates-early-vs-regular.html]Admission”>http://www.inlikeme.com/admission-statistics-acceptance-rates-early-vs-regular.html)</p>
<p>i have a quick question about ED, if i apply EDI and dont get accepted can i still apply EDII? or is it a one shot thing?</p>
<p>and what do you think is a good ACT score for HSS ED?</p>
<p>@ kate</p>
<p>what exactly makes you say “HSS loves ED admits”?? cause ill be applying next year EDII for HSS and WOULD LOVE if this is true lol</p>
<p>Look at the stats from previous years - almost everyone applying ED to HSS gets in, which is an absurdly high number even for CC. </p>
<p>Add to this that often when appying to HSS, CMU is not a student’s first choice school. If you’re gonna study pre-law, usually you’d do it at Georgetown or GWU or Swarthmore or Columbia or something along those lines. So if you get accepted to one of those, CMU would be left in the dust. HSS has enormous attrition rates because of this, moreso than any of the other colleges. Last year only 22% of students accepted to HSS decided to attend CMU.</p>
<p>However, if you’re an ED applicant, you’ve stated that CMU is absolutely your first choice and you would definitely attend if accepted. Not only that, but you’ll be paying a crapload more money in tuition fees than someone who can say, “Look, Columbia gave me $50k in financial aid and CMU only gave me $30k. CMU should up their offer.” It’s no secret that CMU hates giving out financial aid, so this is good for them.</p>
<p>So if you’re willing to do both these things, that makes you a guaranteed ticket for CMU. Therefore it would follow that it’s easier to get in. :D</p>
<p>A good ACT score for ED is above the 31 mark, which is average for CMU. If you apply EDI and get rejected, you can reapply RD only, but you must apply to different colleges from the one you applied to during ED.</p>
<p>how much excatly does one pay per semester at cmu?</p>
<p>how much does one usually pay if they are accepted through ED and not given a great financial aid? an average would be fine too or a link to something…</p>
<p>sorry for the double post. i thought the previous didnt work</p>
<p>Tuition is about 20,750 per semester +3kish for dorms. So 23k per semester about and this isn’t including other random costs. ED is supposed to cover all of your “need” (COA-EFC) which left me with a really good financial aid for this year at least, but apparently it gets worse over the years from what i’ve heard on this board.</p>
<p>kinds off topic question…</p>
<p>i plan to apply to HSS, my history, english, and science classes have been A’s (except ap chem). but my math classes have been straight B’s (but i have a 770 in math level 2). soo does applying to HSS “buffer” the math grades a little??? </p>
<p>btw those grades i gave above are only for 10th and 11th grade bc i read somewhere on this board that CMU only uses sophomore and junior year grades for GPA and consideration. this is true right?</p>
<p>Yeah from what they’ve said at the info sessions i’ve been to before freshman year isn’t considered. Bs in math should be fine… Your grades are kind of the same as mine. B math student (although i got one A junior year and all As freshman year) Bs in AP Chem and a math 2 score of 740. So you should be fine.</p>
<p>nightvisitor are u in HSS?</p>
<p>what’s your intended major? If it’s Econ, then getting B’s in math will hurt. If it’s Creative Writing, then B’s in math will not hurt. </p>
<p>And freshman year is not counted in CMU’s GPA calculations.</p>
<p>@Eagles
Yeah I’m in HSS although in the IS program. </p>
<p>I think eagles wanted to major in psychology, if I’m not mistaken.</p>
<p>Hi completelykate, how do you know freshman year scores are not counted in CMU GPA’s calculation?. Is this mentioned anywhere in CMU website. Please let me know, My S want to apply to CMU.</p>
<p>We actually have (had, since he no longer seems to be active) a rep from the admissions committee here on collegeconfidential. The thread with his answers is stickied on the front page. Here’s the page where he answered that question:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/carnegie-mellon-university/45443-welcome-college-rep-carnegie-mellon-admission-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/carnegie-mellon-university/45443-welcome-college-rep-carnegie-mellon-admission-3.html</a></p>
<p>“While we do look at the Freshman year grades, we typically recalculate their gpa and examine grade trends using 10th, 11th and mid-year 12th academic record. In some cases we will weigh freshman grades more heavily when looking at special circumstances (health issues, drop off or increase in grades, etc.)”</p>
<p>yup i wanted to major in psych, with the biological aspect to it.</p>
<p>does this change the situation at all?</p>