I reiterate, I don’t really see the huge difference between “fitness” for Penn and CMU. I guess you’re saying that Penn is a breeze and not stressful. Now I understand. I just see this kind of harmful, erroneous characterization of CMU as some kind of cold, humorless grind all over this site and I know from personal experience that’s just like any other selective school, aka, it is what you make of it. And, I doubt, for example, the artists, writers and designers who go there are under some kind of stress to be creative.
You seem to be a little more directive, vis-a-vis CMU, than any other school mentioned in this thread. Leads me to wonder why.