Carnegie Mellon Regular Decision Results Class of 2022

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Surprised that they came out so early in the day - I’m on the West Coast, so I could just see my decision when I woke up!

Decision: Accepted!!!

Demographics: white, female, autism spectrum, low-income, single father (who was in prison for some of my childhood), Las Vegas Valley, only Mormon convert in my family

ACT/SAT: 35 / 1530

Grades: 3.97 UW / 4.72 W, top 5% of class

AP scores:
AP Human Geo (5)
AP World History (5)
AP Seminar (3)
AP US History (5)
AP English Language & Composition (5)
AP Biology (5)

Current schedule: AP Gov, AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Music Theory, French III H (skipped from French I), AP Physics 1

Activities:
Mu Alpha Theta (secretary → co-president)
DIY Club (co-founder, co-president)
Choir (Bella Voce, Concert Choir, A Cappella Club, LDS Ward and Stake Choir)
National English Honors Society (secretary)
Writing online articles, often on disability
LDS Ward Family History Consultant
Computer classes in a women’s shelter
Philosophy Club

Honors: 3rd Place in Nevada Brain Bee (a neuroscience competition), National Merit Semifinalist, QuestBridge Finalist

Letters of rec: AP Bio teacher said I was one of the most intelligent, enthusiastic students she’d seen in her 18 years of teaching and that I was enjoyable for peers to work with. English teacher said I was a great listener that students wanted to work with for my depth of thought and articulate contributions who showed the value of human connection in learning.

Essays:
Common App - pretty rushed lol. I chose prompt 7 and said if I could have any superpower, it would be the power to turn villains good. 7/10
Why CMU - not a breathtaking display of powerful prose, just a straightforward answer. I’ve wanted to go to CMU since I was little because the animation software I used was “a free gift from Carnegie Mellon” so I figured surely this university would satisfy my creative tech-y side. I said I wanted to pursue the interdisciplinary biopsych major and explained why. Then, I discussed how CMU was known for its strong arts alongside STEM, and how I wanted to take its specific Music Theory minor, backed up by my experiences in AP Music Theory. And a bit about the social environment of CMU. 8?/10

Why do I think I got in? Who knows! I’m just happy I did. Probably because of my demonstrated passion and non-academic characteristics tbh

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I could use a little closure here… if anyone would like to tell me why I was waitlisted when I felt like I should have been accepted, that would be really awesome. I figure it must come down to something really specific in the application process, though, because I feel like I was a pretty good applicant…

Decision: Waitlisted (CIT)

Demographics: white male, public high school, middle-class area, though for some reason no one in my large high school tends to go to Ivies, and only a few go to top colleges.

ACT/SAT:
Math: 800/Reading: 790
Math II: 800
Physics: 780 (I was only able to take AP Physics 1 at my school, so that was bad)

Grades: 4.00 UW / 4.6 W, top 2% of class (weighted GPA brought down by having 8 orchestra classes)

AP scores:
AP Calculus AB (5)
AP World History (4)
AP Statistics (5)
AP Calculus BC (5)
AP English Language & Composition (5)
AP Physics 1 (5)

Current schedule: AP Gov, AP Econ (Micro), AP Literature (also dual enrollment Composition 101), Symphony Orchestra, a smaller ensemble orchestra, APUSH, AP Chemistry

Activities:
Orchestra (captain of smaller ensemble → co-president)
Robotics (Vice President → president)
A year of chess club, various volunteering related to demonstrating and helping to teach robotics to elementary school kids, helping to work with Chromebooks at our HS. About 200 hours of volunteering recorded, probably 300ish in total.
Honors: Two robotics state championships (over a dozen tournaments won, plus a smattering of other awards), National Merit Finalist, individual and group awards for orchestra (we went to perform at Carnegie Hall).

Letters of rec: These might have been weak just because I really do not like asking anything of other people on their own time, especially our severely underpaid teachers. I got an amazing recommendation from our robotics mentor, and pretty good recommendations from English and Math teachers. (Those could have been better if I had made suggestions and asked for more details, which I regret not doing.)

Essays:
Common App - wrote about having to pick up the pieces of the robotics team after almost everyone graduated (team is largely student-led) and applying a standard of excellence to everything we do. Really, robotics was my focus in high school, so this is something I was passionate about being the best at. It’s a small team, and I led the design of the robot and did the programming and driving.
Why CMU - I wrote about how I wanted to participate in the solar boat racing, that that would be a continuation of my robotics competition that I was so passionate about, and that Carnegie Mellon has such a great mix of talented students in all fields, which I wanted because of my connection to the arts as a musician.

Interview: Interview went very well (I think), interviewer said that I was the only one to bring him anything to show (videos of my team’s robot in action). I mentioned how I always tried to pick the brains of engineers that I met, and discussed what I wanted out of college and my years afterward. I asked a lot of questions about campus life and opportunities. I also visited an information session, and mentioned to the interviewer that I was going to visit campus (though over winter break, when it was closed, so this could not be formally recorded…).

Only problem I see is maybe doing too little my freshman year, and selling myself short. I said I did robotics 17hrs/wk 42wks/yr over the four years, though it’s more like 35hrs/wk plus day-long tournaments a lot of the time, so while I may have sold myself a little short, it’s also previous years bringing down the average. Probably should have said 20, but it’s really hard to estimate these things and I did not want to risk exaggerating. That may have been a mistake that cost me, along with not working with teachers on the rec letters.

I’m not going to go forward with the waitlist, CMU would probably be too expensive for me anyway and I’m not going to be led on. Kind of surprised to not be accepted, though, but if no one else sees any weaknesses I will have to assume it is what I have identified (though I do not see how those would drag me down that badly). It will all turn out okay. :slight_smile:

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Decision: Accepted in IS

Objective:

SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): 1560, 21 essay, 790 M, 770 R
ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): N/A
SAT II (Type, Score): Math II - 800, Biology (Molecular) - 760, Literature - 740
Weighted GPA (out of ??): 4:82 out of 5
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 21 out of ~310
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5), Chem (4), Bio (5), Chinese (5), US Gov (5), World History (5), English Lang (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Econ, English Lit, Advanced Comp (creative writing elective), Orchestra, Stats, Calc BC, AP Compsci
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP scholar with distinction, National merit finalist, a bunch of state orchestra awards, first/second place at FBLA states

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Lit mag (founder/co-editor/website manager), National English Honor Society (Honor Society liason), NHS, FBLA, programming club
Job/Work Experience: Server at Pizza Hut
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered at a retirement home, part of a community service club at school
Summer Activities: Assistant camp counselor at nature camp, Intern at NIH
Essays: I started out with an anecdote and transitioned it into relevant experience for my major and how CMU could contribute to my success (8/10).
For my common app essay, I talked about my passion for diversity and the need for minority (PoC, LGBT) representation in the media (10/10).
Teacher Recommendations:
12th grade Advanced Comp teacher: She sponsors the lit mag that I run so I’ve known her pretty well for over 2 years. I’m also currently in her creative writing course and I’m doing well so I think this one is pretty strong (9.5/10)
Computer Science teacher: I’ve had her for the past two years, so she knows me pretty well. She isn’t that strong of a writer but I did/do well in her class and CompSci is semi-related to my major (8/10)
Internship mentor: Isn’t a native English speaker but probably contributed a lot about my technical experience outside of school (8/10)

Counselor Rec:
Probably generic, but he probably knows me better than some of his other students since I’ve requested meetings and gone over my resume with him in person (7.5/10)

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yeah
Intended Major: IS
State (if domestic applicant): MD
School Type: public
Ethnicity: East Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: ~110k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nope

Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments: not really sure how i got in; i feel vastly unqualified, but i’m excited to visit! waiting on that financial aid tho :confused:

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Rejected Penn (ED), UChicago (EA), Duke
Waitlisted UNC (EA), Cornell, Barnard
Accepted at UMD Honors, BU, Northwestern, Vanderbilt

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IDesireClosure: I’m with you I would think you would have been a very strong applicant to CIT. Some things I can think of:

  1. You were pushed out due to diversity quotas. I’m not just talking racial or gender, but geographic as well.
  2. There might have been some small red flag which appeared in a rec that gave an admissions person an excuse to waitlist.
  3. Perhaps for some reason they got the feeling that you were not fully committed ( you note that CMU is too expensive; did that message leak out?).

In any event I suspect you are an exceptionally talented student so I’m confident you’ll really succeed where you end up going. Best of luck to you.

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IDesireClosure: What were choices for college/major. Were they CS and ECE? Those two are in the single digits of % accepted. At that point (only taking 1 out of more than 10 applicants) it really comes down to very marginal things. The quantitative stuff (test cores, gpa) for the bulk of the non-accepted applicants will be as good or nearly as good as yours and that only makes up part of the evaluation. They also tend to look at ranges on the academic stuff (30-40 point differences on the SAT may not matter much so everyone above 1560 or so looks more or less equal to them on that metric). One thing I think most adcoms look for is a little bit of uniqueness/difference. If they have 9 applicants that all look more or less the same and one that has some difference, they are likely to give a lot of weight to that difference. I think you also needed to have made a strong case for CMU in your essay. If you cookie cuttered the question at all, the adcoms likely picked someone that looks similar to you but had a stronger or more unique answer to why-CMU.

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Decision: Accepted in Engineering

Objective:

SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): 1510, 800 M, 710 R
ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): 35, 11, 36, 35, 33, 36
SAT II (Type, Score): Math II - 800, Chemistry - 800
Weighted GPA (out of ??): 4.2 out of 5
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.00
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 2%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC (5), Chemistry (5), others
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, Calc 3, english, zoology, etc.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.)

Subjective:

Extra curricular: sport (nationally recognized), school clubs
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer: sport
Essays: how CMU is the best fit and the many opportunities it has
For my common app essay, I talked about my passion for my sport
Teacher Recommendations (I don’t see them):
Math teacher, chemistry teacher, history teacher

Counselor Rec:

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Engineering
State (if domestic applicant):
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Recruited athlete

Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments:

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Decision: Waitlisted in DC (English)

Objective:

SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): 1320, 590 M 730CRW
ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): N/A
SAT II (Type, Score): N/A
Weighted GPA (out of ??): 3.91 out of ???
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): no idea, school doesn’t report
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 7%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Took both AP english, AP psych, and AP Art History but didn’t take exams
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit and Comp, AP Psych, physics, precalc, astronomy, sign language II, conservatory (internship program)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.)

Subjective:

Extra curricular: community orchestra and principal classical guitarist, classic film club, school newspaper, private guitar lessons, local indie film as script supervisor, national honor society, french NHS
Job/Work Experience: n/a
Volunteer/Community service: internship with local public library/volunteering with local public library 4hr week/250+hours over 2 years
Summer: see above non-school ECs
Essays: CMU fit, the ECs there relevant to my current ones like their community orchestras and various clubs, activities, and publications, as well as talking about where I wanted to go with my life
For my common app essay, I related the personal lives of a few artists i feel a strong connection to and my own life and talked a lot about growing up in the pittsburgh area and indicated a lot of personal introspection
Teacher Recommendations:
english teacher, another teacher, i didn’t see them and i cyberschool so there aren’t strong teacher/student relationships so probably lukewarm

Counselor Rec: not strong faculty/student relationships due to nature of school so likely lukewarm at best

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: English
State (if domestic applicant): PA
School Type: public cyber/charter
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: ~50k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation on a technicality (1 parent associates degree, other parent went but never finished), relatively low income (fafsa efc 3k), female

Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments: this was my reach school so i never expected anything but a denial, im wondering if i would have shown more interest and interviewed/toured if it would have pushed me over the edge but nonetheless im delighted.

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Decision: accepted to college of fine arts but not engineering or science

Demographics: white, lgbtq (transgender and queer), no income (dad lives under vows of poverty), single father, absent mother, ward of a church, from very poor area of pennsylvania, sort of a first gen (dad never finished, and we don’t know about my mom)

ACT/SAT: 34/1490 (new sat)

Grades: 3.83 uw/4.37 w

AP scores:
ap us history (3)
ap us government (4)
ap comparative government (5)
ap studio art and design—2d design (4)
ap studio art and design—drawing (4)
ap english language (5)
ap english literature (4)
ap biology (4)
ap environmental science (5)
ap calculus ab (4)

Current schedule: on my gap year presently to apprentice as a tattoo artist.
senior year schedule was ap calculus, ap comparative gov, ap literature, experimental design, honors chemistry, anatomy and physiology, and microbiology

Activities:
envirothon (secretary for two yrs, president for two yrs; placing twice at states)
science national honor society (secretary for two years)
national honor society
sociedad honoraria hispánica (secretary)
youth coalition/students against destructive decisions (founding member)
theater (lead actor, head of set/makeup/costume design, attended competition)
math field day (three years, placed and made it to regionals twice)
interfaith church (i worked, lived, and volunteered there, lead services, etc. all four years and my whole life)

Honors: ap scholar with distinction and national ap scholar, high school academic hall of fame, principal’s honors award, poetry out loud state finalist

Letters of rec: i’m not sure what they said because my teachers didn’t show me, but i got them from my science teacher (whom i had four classes with), my math teacher (three classes), and my tattoo mentor (has been an art teacher and instructor to me since i was 6 or 7)

Essays:
Common App—chose the background/upbringing essay and talked about how i was raised at an interfaith sactuary of earth religion as the ward of a church. i was really proud of this one because it’s incredibly unique and offers a lot of perspective to frame me as an interesting student.
Why CMU—in part, i talked about having a very good friend and mentor who’s a recent cmu alum who recommended the school to me. the rest was fairly typical—a strong learning environment, the culture and personality of pittsburgh, etc.

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**Decision: Accepted **

Objective:[ul]

[li] SAT I (breakdown): 1480/1600 (710RW/770M)[/li]
[li] ACT: [/li]
[li] SAT II: Math 1 (740)[/li]
[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.996[/li]
[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%[/li]
[li] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5), Calc BC (5), Lang (3), Psych (5), World His (5), Lit (5), Chem (4)[/li]
[li] IB (place score in parenthesis):[/li]
[li] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, Multivariable Calculus, AP Computer Science A[/li]
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): FIRST Dean’s List Finalist [/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]

[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Class Council (President), National Honors Society (President), FIRST Robotics (Captain), Varsity Cross Country (Captain), Varsity Indoor & Outdoor Track (Captain), Math Team, Debate Club[/li]
[li] Job/Work Experience: Soccer Referee, Grocery Store Clerk [/li]
[li] Volunteer/Community service: 800+ Hours[/li]
[li] Personal Statement: Strong[/li]
[/ul]Other[ul]

[li] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes[/li]
[li]** Intended Major **: Architecture [/li]
[li] State (if domestic applicant): CT[/li]
[li] Country (if international applicant): [/li]
[li] School Type: Magnet[/li]
[li] Ethnicity: White[/li]
[li] Gender: Male[/li]
[li] Income Bracket: 100,00-150,000[/li]
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Nope[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ list]

[li] Strengths: I had some brilliant letters of recommendation from teachers[/li]
[li] Weaknesses: App not focused on architecture. [/li]
[li] Schools were you accepted to? University of Hartford, WPI, Wentworth, Northeastern, UCONN[/li]
[li] Schools you were rejected from?[/li]
MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale

[li] Schools you were waitlisted at?[/li]
WashU STL

[/list]General Comments: Good Luck!!

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@cabritabonita You sound like an awesome person! I’ll see you there! :stuck_out_tongue:

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@ACollegeHopeful3 Oof, I imagine the letter-of-rec part sure would be more difficult for someone at an online school. :-/ I wish you the best wherever you go!

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thank you! @LuciaDrinkwater

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@IDesireClosure There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance. I can understand that you are disappointed, but did the hubris on display above come through in your application? If so, perhaps a little humility might have been in order.

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Decision: Accepted (CIT including ECE), Rejected SCS

Objective:

SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): 1540, 800 M 740CRW
ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): N/A
SAT II (Type, Score): Math II (800), Bio (790)
Weighted GPA (out of ??): 4.2
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): n/a
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC (5), Physics C E&M/M (5&5), Eng. Lang. Comp. (5), others in-progress
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: College courses in MV Calc, AP Chem, AP French, AP Comp Sci, Honors English

Subjective:

Extra curricular: research, 2 varsity sports
Job/Work Experience: n/a
Volunteer/Community service: minimal
Summer: see above non-school ECs
Essays: I think my why CMU essay was pretty good. I met a professor when I visited and referenced that and also my interview I leveraged into a decent essay
Teacher Recommendations:
Physics teacher should have been really good as I got an award in Physics and was a TA; English teacher was probably good but not glowing

Counselor Rec: public school so probably just okay

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Mech. E or ECE
State (if domestic applicant): MA
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: >100k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): legacy (dad)

Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments: I think my legacy made the difference. Grades and test schools were strong. I got wait listed at a lot of other comparable schools like Cornell and UM and I’m glad I got into CMU

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@LuciaDrinkwater thanks! i’m really hoping i can swing it financially, so we’ll see.

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S18 waitlisted for engineering. He will pick another school and then see what happens at CMU.

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Kinda late to respond, but I can’t fall asleep so here I go. Excuse any errors because I’m on my phone (which might as well be a brick for how fast it runs while typing).

Decision: Accepted MechE

Objective:

SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): 1540, 800 M 740CRW
ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): N/A
SAT II (Type, Score): N/A
Weighted GPA (out of ??): 5.21something out 6.0
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school top 5% because that’s highest they go, but my weighted GPA was the highest of my class (my docs. the counselor turned in showed this)
AP/AICE (place score in parenthesis): AP Computer Science A (4), AP World History (5), Ap Psych (4), Ap Physics Mech (4), AICE A level History (b), and I took a couple AICE AS Level classes and passed with high scores
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit and Comp, AP Psychics E&M, AP Macro, Honors Gov, AP Calc BC, my 2 required engineering classes (I go to a magnet hs)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
I have some industry certifications such as the CSWA (CAD cert), CPgmM (Professional Level CAM cert), and REC pre-engineering Cert
AICE Diploma with Merit
Awards from TSA state conference - 2 second places in engineering events and a few top 10s among other small awards

Subjective:

Extra curricular: Fencer (“C” rated, registered ref), Robotics Club (BattleBots member & worked with VEX), SECME club (Reporter), TSA club (Technology Student Association)(VP 11th and Pres 12th), Key Club
Job/Work Experience: Camp counselor at STEM camp for kids aged 6-12 (taught robotics, programming, and whatnot)
Volunteer/Community service: a bit over 300 hrs
Summer: see above and a camp at the Naval Academy
Essays: CMU fit, my why CMU essay was really good. I talked a lot about how I developed my various interests and how cmu would allow me to explore them. I also mentioned a professor, how his research is what initially drew me to CMU, and how it made me dig deeper.
For my common app essay, I talked about fencing and the qualities in me it has instilled and fostered. This essay was 10/10. It was very me, and I feel that came across.
Teacher Recommendations:
English: super strong. He’s an amazing writer, and he liked me a lot. I loved his teaching style and personality which I think showed in his class and helped when he wrote it.
Math: good but not anything to write home about

Counselor Rec: good but kinda a summary of my resume

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes (I for sure can’t whip out around $70,000 every year. I haven’t got money tree yet.)
Intended Major: MechE
State (if domestic applicant): FL
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: ~50k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Sadly I’m hookless

Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments: I loved my essays (I’m a better writer than I show in this reply XD, and they were probably my best of all my other apps). Mabye the certifications helped because I’m interested in mechanical engineering. The AICE diploma might have been different. Honestly I can’t say for sure except good luck with your college apps. There is no formula. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Apply to a wide range of schools.

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@kaukauna The reasons you gave seem plausible to me. However, I’m going to have to push back on any implication that it was an issue of race, since CMU’s racial diversity is statistically pretty low. It doesn’t seem like there is any affirmative action going on there. Besides, while it may seem convenient to blame my problems on something out of my control, it’s not a good way to improve myself as a person.

@atxfather Thanks for your feedback! It’s hard to objectively measure my essays, especially without being able to compare to others, but I’d like to that even if I wasn’t 100% unique (I don’t have any major “hooks” doing for me), I believe I did do a pretty good job saying why specifically I wanted to go to CMU. It’s hard to cookie cutter when I only applied to one other college that required essays, so they were both entirely unique, except discussion of why I wanted to be an engineer. I actually named a specific program that I would love to do as an extension of my competitive robotics experience, so I would hope that that would help. I was genuinely hyped about it. I applied to CIT, which is not the School of Computer Science (which is much harder to get into, and I would totally understand being rejected from that). I totally get that SAT alone isn’t going to get me anywhere, and 1590 really is not different from 1560. I just figured that having a great SAT could help cover any other potential weaknesses (though I didn’t see any dealbreaking ones). I think I can agree with you that not “standing out” could have been to my detriment. Orchestra/robotics is probably not super unique for aspiring engineers, but I had hoped that distinguishing myself in both of those activities would mean something.

@SkepticalOfMost Your username checked out. :slight_smile: You could very well be correct, as there must be some reason that I was not accepted, and keeping the ol’ ego in check is something I actively work at. In general, I try my best to avoid saying anything egotistical, but a lot of the time I will as a joke. That’s generally with people who are more familiar with me and understand my sense of humor, but maybe that bled through in the interview? But I didn’t think so. I even mentioned about how I had met an electrical engineer who worked on trains randomly and he imparted on me the importance of staying humble as an engineer, especially one new on the job. I had family read through my essays and they didn’t identify anything egotistical in there (and believe me, they would mention it). But, there is a fine line. I understand how you would interpret my initial post as exhibiting hubris. I definitely did have excessive confidence, in that the reality fell short of my expectations. I’m just trying to figure out why, and I’ve heard a lot of really good reasons.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to hear me out and give their input! It is what it is, and I’ll be alright. I forgot to say, congrats to those who got in!

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I will be applying to CMU in 2 years and hope to play a varsity sport there. Do the coaches have much influence in getting accepted? I heard d that the Ivy coaches can have quite a bit of pull, but not sure if D3 have as much on admissions. Appreciate any help