How important is demonstrated interest?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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In particular, how important is demonstrated interest for the School of Computer Science?

I did do an alumni interview, but I’ve never visited campus. I live about 3 hours away.

I did attend a meeting at my school, when the admissions officer came to visit, and I signed up/requested additional info plus wrote the supplemental essay.

Thanks

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@joshuascreams According to a Common Data Set from 2012-2013, Carnegie Mellon ranks demonstrated interest as important, the same rank as the essays, talent, alumni relations, and applicant’s race/ethnicity, among many other things. To put that in perspective, there are 4 rankings - very important, important, considered, not considered. GPA, academic record, test scores, and class rank are considered very important.

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Three hours away - visit and experience the campus. Also encourage you to do the sleeping bag weekend to see if CMU is a fit. Also would give your parents, if they chose, an opportunity to explore Pittsburgh and be comfortable with the CMU setting.

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Unfortunately CMU isn’t offering any more tours, and I tried to book the overnight weekend but it was already all full!

I don’t know if there’s anything else I can do to demonstrate interest at this point.

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@MandomeLife Would you say that I’ve demonstrated enough interest to get by?

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I think you are okay. If you don’t get in, it won’t be for that reason.