<p>Is carnegie mellon's acceptance rate lower for computer science than for any other major?</p>
<p>CMU SCS has about an 8% accept rate compared to about 30% overall acceptance rate for CMU. </p>
<p>[Carnegie</a> Mellon Admission | Admission Statistics](<a href=“http://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/undergraduate-admission-statistics]Carnegie”>http://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/undergraduate-admission-statistics)</p>
<p>correction: if you divide the total numbers it looks like a 19% overall acceptance rate … much lower than the published 30% I found on a college info website!</p>
<p>its definitely much harder to be accepted in CS than any other major at cmu</p>
<p>CMU’s overall accp. rate is listed as 30% because most applicants apply to more than one CMU college. The 30% rate is calculated by dividing the total # of admitted students by the total number of applicants (with double counting in either figure). Thus, the 30% number isn’t an accurate depiction of the competitiveness of any CMU college aside from DC. </p>
<p>SCS is by far the most competitive school at CMU. It’s really a crapshoot, even for qualified candidates, so I’d suggest applying to less competitive schools as back-ups (CIT, IS, DC, etc).</p>
<p>Actually, CFA- Drama is more competitive than SCS.</p>