<p>so, i lost my letter notifying me of my ID number or whatever and I was bored and procrastinating and went to the CMU website and wanted to check the Where am I in the process thing but couldnt cuz i odnt know my ID number. I emailed the school and everything. HOwever, i wante dto ask if the ID numbers follow a pattern like
initials plus last 4 digits of social secority number
or
birthday plus i dunno something else
cuz if they ahve some sort of pattern i could jsut check myself and I wouldnt have to wait until they email me back ( im very impatient)
so if someone could reply to this and tell me if admission ID #'s are completely random or if they ahve a pattern and what it is I would be forever indebted to you ; )</p>
<p>Not that I can tell. Looks like a randomly/sequentially chosen number to me.</p>
<p>ugh , not cool!</p>
<p>KountingSheep987-</p>
<p>Maybe they changed it from two years ago but I remember it wasn't random. Try a few combinations just to be sure. I thought it had the birthdate in it.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it's random. Mine has no correlation with any of my stuff =)</p>
<p>athlonmj-</p>
<p>They probably changed it then. Maybe due to the new privacy laws.</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck to all of you. I hope you get good news soon!</p>