<p>accepted to MCS!</p>
<p>How do I know whether I got into CIT-ECE or not?
It shows that I applied to CIT for ECE, says “Accept”, but doesn’t explicitly say whether or not that includes ECE. Should I assume “yes” to ECE?</p>
<p>ACCEPTED TO CIT (first choice) AND MCS (second choice)!!! You guys have no idea how excited I am or how much this means to me. I can’t believe it! I am SO grateful! This seriously feels unreal to me.</p>
<p>I won’t post all the stats right now, I should probably be sleeping but I’ll do a quick overview.</p>
<p>Class rank as of junior year was 32 out of 467, may have gone up some after this year’s midyear reports. GPA somewhere between 3.6 and 3.75 unweighted, weighted is somewhere around a 90 to 94 average. This year’s courses: Honors Ceramics, Honors Theatre, AP Spanish, Honors Expository Writing, Honors Shakespeare, AP Calc BC, AP Biology, Honors Anatomy/Physiology. Varsity gymnastics, soccer, track. Part-time job, lots of volunteering hours and plenty of clubs/extracurriculars.</p>
<p>SAT - 640 CR, 650 M, 780 WR (2070)
Did SAMS program, biracial.</p>
<p>I feel like my essays were probably what got me in, because I know my GPA and test scores are crap. I really showed in my essay how much I wanted this, and this is honestly the only school I can actually say I really did that 100% for.</p>
<p>I am honestly shocked and surprised and I know there are people who probably deserved my spot way more than I do. But I just want to say congrats to everyone who was accepted, and to those who were not, you’ll do great wherever you go. You’re all amazing! :)</p>
<p>@DRose2012, I was accepted TSB (BA) and HSS (ECO) with a 2240 SAT score, SAT II: Math 2:740, Lit: 710, USH: 680. Didn’t take the ACT. 5 AP tests (I think). Pretty strong essays, didn’t read my recs, marching band/wind band extracurriculars, volunteer work, taught english at an orphanage in China. Went to a summer program that dealt with Microfinance which pertains to my major. I’m Asian and Female, about 100k~ income bracket. Large public school, graduating class of about 1000+, not sure about the rank, keeps fluctuating, probably 10-20. Hope that helps, sorry everything is a bit vague!</p>
<p>How easy is it to switch into MCS from HSS? Thinking about going from psych to bio</p>
<p>@AlbertCollege - What is your GPA? Taking AP classes is good but good colleges want rigor and should be mostly As…
@DRose - You have good stats but not much to distinguish you from another Indian. And you seemed “privileged”…Again…this is all based on what I have been reading about admissions.</p>
<p>@tryingforcollege</p>
<p>I do see where you are coming from to an extent. I personally think that starting my own small business and being the only teenager on the board of a huge regional cultural group outside of school is something because I feel passionately about those two things and spent a lot of time on them. Plus, they both showed abilities that translate to business skills and the such.</p>
<p>My biggest issue IS that my ethnicity would harm my admission chances, but at an Ivy, not Carnegie Mellon. I don’t think “privileged” is the problem since everyone at my school would qualify as that yet they all get into Ivies and the such. </p>
<p>My interview for CMU was my best interview and went really well also (I could see my interviewer underlying passionate)</p>
<p>Plus, I still find it shocking that I was able to get into Ross Preferred Admit (a comparable, if not better business school with a similar acceptance rate), UVA out of state, UChicago, WUSTL, and Rice, but not Tepper. I’m not trying to be arrogant; I just don’t see how it makes sense. </p>
<p>I honestly thought my essays were ridiculously unique, clever, and insightful. My issue is that I liked CMU a lot. Of course, I’m still waiting back from Wharton, Harvard, Columbia, and Emory, but CMU had a blend of science, technology, and business that I really thought was interesting. Bleh, it’s probably a sour taste because it’s the first school I wasn’t accepted to. Got to get used to it for Thursday though!</p>
<p>^you are on wait list, right? You still have a chance. You do have great options. What I meant about the privilege is “working in dad’s firm”…again…admission is a crapshoot…what is gold to one is bronze to the other…</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m on the waitlist. Oh, I guess I understand how the working for dad’s firm can be seen like that, but it wasn’t written like that on my Common App :P.</p>
<p>Also waitlisted CIT. Kinda bummed because I thought I had a decent chance.</p>
<p>Looks like my USAPHO qualification didn’t change anything. Waitlisted at MCS and SCS.</p>
<p>Accepted CIT and TSB, but I wish I’d also applied to HSS! Do you know if I can still change to HSS while I’m at CMU?
Can we join Facebook college groups even if we’re not sure we’ll be attending it?</p>
<p>I don’t usually believe in things like ‘Tufts Syndrome’ but looking at some of the stats and ECs for waitlisters compared to those of many (but obviously not all) accepted students makes me think it may have been part of their admissions decisions.</p>
<p>I feel like a victim of Tufts Syndrome after seeing the CMU decision :p</p>
<p>Accepted CIT-ECE! Waitlisted SCS, oh well!</p>
<p>Accepted at SCS and CIT ECE.</p>
<p>2300 SAT I
SAT IIs : 800 MII 800 Phy 800 Chem </p>
<p>Prolly valedictorian?</p>
<p>My son is in to Information Systems after he was rejected ED 1 for SCS! Overjoyed then reality set in. CMU is still his top choice without considering finances. Actually he is pretty excited about information systems now that he has learned he loves project management attending the game academy at cmu this summer .
Huge merit scholarship at RPI which he’s trying to take into consideration . Any advise? Loans are an option but how much is the entire CMU experience worth?</p>
<p>Waitlisted at CIT-ECE. </p>
<p>I thought they do not waitlist ECE, since its the most competitive? Or have they changed their policies since? Will they put me elsewhere, say chem engineering, if I get through the priority waitlist?</p>
<p>Oh and I think the waitlist decision website is down also…</p>
<p>Accepted SCS, CIT, and IS :’)</p>
<p>Is it just me, or are most waitlists from CIT?</p>