<p>I'm kinda worried...</p>
<p>CMU was my top choice choice until I saw this, it's at the bottom of the list - and that's a huge list.</p>
<p>Someone who goes to CMU enlighten me please!</p>
<p>what more were you expecting?</p>
<p>Duno, can you get by with that? Four years of my life, it's kind of important.</p>
<p>haha putting ranks on girls, what has this world come to...</p>
<p>anyways aren't there tons of local colleges nearby, upitt is just down the alley</p>
<p>and plus the best time to meet girls is at parties, where a favorable ratio is maintained. so if you can get in, you're in luck. </p>
<p>its not like you're going to be caught dead romancing in your intro to ECE class.</p>
<p>Alright sweet. I was worried for a sec but yeah I suppose you're right...</p>
<p>the university of arizona has a pretty good IS program from what I understand, I think it's #4</p>
<p>lol if it's really D+ bad I've got a couple of friends going to upitt but hey you never know</p>
<p>Crap, forgot to provide the link to the website
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/h4gzb%5B/url%5D">http://tinyurl.com/h4gzb</a></p>
<p>As a girl at CMU, I'm offended that these threads crop up all the time. Why would a smart girl (most of the girls at CMU are quite intelligent, you know), want a guy who is so obsessed with the appearance of girls on campus? I think you're more likely to have problems because of your attitude than because of lack of girls on campus.</p>
<p>If you want ditzy idiots who obsess about their outfits, you're not going to find many girls your type at CMU, that's true. But that doesn't mean the girls are ugly, it just means that they don't want to devote large amounts of money and time to staying in fashion. They have better things to do, like finish their homework. Most of them can probably look pretty good if they take the effort.</p>
<p>And it's not like the guys on campus are that attractive, as a whole. A few don't seem to have the showering thing down, and most live in free t-shirts and jeans.</p>
<p>exactly - which is why I thought UAz might suit the op better if he values such tendancies (and while I agree and can see how it is offensive to read, I remember what it is like to be picking out which colleges to apply to and when you see a school at the bottom of the list for any category you really start wondering why you are considering it when others are above it)</p>
<p>I know I'm excited to go to CMU.</p>
<p>I'm more amused by the idiocy than offended. Personally I have nothing to complain about, and neither do most of the guys I know.</p>
<p>If CMU was your top choice before you found out from some random site that assigns grades to girls based on silly criteria that the girls here are worth a D+, and now suddenly it's not your top choice...I'm sorry, but you're a severe tool. You have to keep things in perspective.</p>
<p>Like KrazyKow said, girls don't like jerks of that sort anyway. Well, some do, but they don't go to CMU.</p>
<p>With accordance with most of the posters in these thread, it's pretty silly to turn down a world-class university because of a stupid "grade" given by some website. Anyway, a part of the "D+" is because of the lack of girls, who attend CMU, not because they are "unattractive". But rest assured, the percentage of girls at CMU is increasing each year, and I've been told that the uneveness on campus is unnoticeable. Bottom line: don't worry about the girl situation haha.</p>
<p>KrazyKow, i think it's a good thing to look nice and be smart. You dont like guys who judge girls somewhat on appearance? well...good luck to you then. Physical attraction is a large aspect of a good relationship, silly.</p>
<p>interesting that the CMU kids are dissing Arizona. Both have excellent engineering programs :) My dad actually turned down CMU for Arizona, as Arizona gave him a scholarship. I'd like to add that he met my mom at Arizona, and she's pretty :)
Props to Yale for being the highest ranked Ivy with a B+.</p>
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<p>“Most of them can probably look pretty good if they take the effort."</p>
<p>People don't know just how true this is. There have been a couple girls at my school who went from the ungroomed bunch to hotties just because they took the time to be one. Or have you ever seen someone's senior pictures and been like WOW. I've dated ditzy girls and girls with personality. If you plan on going on more then one date the personality is much more important. Im also sure their are very good looking girls at CMU but they probably don't care about it. Point is (coming from a guy) that looks do matter... and you probably should try to date a smoking hott girl once in you’re life... but after a while you see that girls are girls (physically) and you’ll finally value the intangible traits.</p>
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<p>I don't think she is denying this, I just think she wanted to give us a glimpse as to how she has noticed girls at CMU think. No need to get combative, the forum is about information sharing not vendettas.</p>
<p>Oh and jimbob if you were referring to my post I was not "dissing" Arizona - they really DO have a top Information Systems program. Actually had I known about it in the fall I would have visited (they have a cool fly-in visit thing) and probably applied. They do have generous scholarships avaliable too. I'm sorry if you felt I was but Eller's program for MIS is #4 last time I checked.</p>
<p>edit: <a href="http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/web/about/rankings.cgi%5B/url%5D">http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/web/about/rankings.cgi</a></p>
<p>you would choose arizona IS over cmu IS??</p>
<p>Here's my take on the situation (mostly for guys coming to cmu) -</p>
<p>There are quite a few attractive girls at CMU. The problem is that they won't date you.</p>
<p>Most of the half-decent, dateable CMU girls (physically and personality-wise) have boyfriends from high school and retain them when they come here.</p>
<p>The ones that could have had boyfriends in high school but chose not to (for religious reasons, academic, family, etc.) don't really have an incentive to start dating when they come to CMU because, in general, CMU dudes don't look any better than dudes from their high schools.</p>
<p>The rest of the attractive girls (i.e. the ones who just happened to be single when they started college) get picked up within the first few weeks. Orientation might be your only chance to get a girlfriend. Don't miss this opportunity.</p>
<p>I know a lot of CMU people in relationships, but I only know a few CMU people who date other CMU people. Most of my male friends are single. Most of my female friends are not.</p>
<p>Another important thing to realize is that if you're a CS, engineering, or science major (especially CS), a lot of CMU girls (even nerdy ones) will stereotype you as a creepy stalker. They will complain about the guys at CMU when we're clearly the ones that have it bad.</p>
<p>Note that this is not really applicable to students in CFA and H&SS. CFA and H&SS people seem to have no problem getting girls (or other guys in the case of CFA...).</p>
<p>Take this with a grain of salt...I'm fairly biased about this subject. And if you're actually in SCS or CIT and care about your grades, don't worry - you won't have time for a full-time girlfriend anyway.</p>
<p>"Orientation might be your only chance to get a girlfriend. Don't miss this opportunity."</p>
<p>True but even more important is</p>
<p>"you won't have time for a full-time girlfriend anyway."</p>
<p>GF and BF's take up too much time... when you find one who wants to be on his/her own most of the time then don't let that one go! :)</p>
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<p>No, I still could have applied, I was merely demonstrating that I was not being sarcastic when I mentioned UAz as an alternative for OP. However you might be mistaken if you thought the two programs weren't comparable. (at least on the graduate level)</p>
<p>GreenDayFan: I know that physical attraction is important in a relationship, but it is not the most important part of a relationship. The OP's statement that a lack of attractive girls would turn him away from a school he was otherwise seriously considering suggests both that attractiveness is an exceedingly important part of a relationship to him and that relationships are incredibly important to him.</p>