I got accepted ED here (found out yesterday night) but i’m having 2nd thoughts. I checked USnews and its ranked 22(15 for business) but whenever I tell my friends I got accepted here, they don’t know anything about it.
Basically, is it a good college? Thx for ur help.
<p>I think yes, its definately good, and 22 is a high rank. Any of the schools in the top 25, or even top 35 for that matter, are very fine institutions of the highest caliber. CMU, like a few other schools, just doesn't have the name recognition with people outside of academia that an Ivy would. That isn't what is important, CMU is a great school and you will get a very good education there.</p>
<p>yep its a great school, hopkins is better though. lol jk. carnegie is a great school, so dont have second thoughts.</p>
<p>Just because your friends are ignorant about it doesn't mean it's a bad school. You should be very proud that you got into a top 25 college. Enjoy your next four years man.</p>
<p>Congratulations! Second guessing is OK, but you did the research, applied to the ED college of your choice and were accepted!
Now it is up to make the most of your education.</p>
<p>Keep in mind: Just because your peers did not ever hear of a school does not matter one bit and is irrelevant.</p>
<p>CMU seems to have a lower "general public" profile than some of its academic peers, but theres no name recognition problem at all with employers in the technical and business fields. A study by the Wall Street Journal a few years ago ranked its MBA program as tops, above Harvard et al - this was based on a survey of employers and headhunters, not academics. And, of course, technical recruiters give CMU the respect it deserves. Congrats on your admission, duke3d4!</p>
<p>Wow thanks a lot for your replies and feedback. Definetly reinforced my decision :P</p>
<p>CMU is a wonderful university... Like many of the colleges like CMU, like Roger said, have a lot of power in the work place. Duke, I got into the University of Rochester earlier this month and whenever I tell people, they get very puzzled looks. However one of the customers that comes into the stores where I work is a PhD holding physicist and he knew how great of a school it is. It just really depends on the person you tell, but when you get into the work place, you will definately be held with high regard... Best of luck!</p>
<p>Making a decison based on rankings--anyone's rankings--or the opinions of uninformed friends is putting your life decisions in the hands of others. Now maybe I'm an exceptional control freak, but does this sound like a good thing to do? I hope you don't have similar second thoughts if you're ever about to get married...at least not second thoughts for those rankings. (I don't know, honey, you're ranked only #37 and Jojo and Doober think you don't pay enough attention to sports....)</p>
<p>As Hopeful1 put it, you did your research and made a good choice <em>for you</em>.</p>
<p>lol Tam thats hillarious, Hopkins should obviously be #1</p>
<p>Its ranked 7 for undergraduate business.</p>
<p>Also, wasn't it ranked something like the best for career prospects/or something like that. I had read an article somewhere, where ucsb had most beautiful campus, etc.</p>
<p>Significant credit goes to Carnegie-Mellon for propelling John Nash of 'A Beautiful Mind' fame toward math and his subsequent Nobel Prize. Any university that could help shape John Nash is a great university to me.</p>
<p>From the Nobel site (<a href="http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html%5B/url%5D">http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html</a>) and John Nash's autobiography:</p>
<p>"By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic "Men of Mathematics" by E.T. Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime.
I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering.
Regarding the circumstances of my studies at Carnegie (now Carnegie Mellon U.), I was lucky to be there on a full scholarship, called the George Westinghouse Scholarship. But after one semester as a chem. eng. student I reacted negatively to the regimentation of courses such as mechanical drawing and shifted to chemistry instead. But again, after continuing in chemistry for a while I encountered difficulties with quantitative analysis where it was not a matter of how well one could think and understand or learn facts but of how well one could handle a pipette and perform a titration in the laboratory. Also the mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to me that it was not almost impossible to make a good career in America as a mathematician. So I shifted again and became officially a student of mathematics. And in the end I had learned and progressed so much in mathematics that they gave me an M. S. in addition to my B. S. when I graduated."</p>
<p>And from the NY Times (<a href="http://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Emwalker/NashStory.htm%5B/url%5D):">http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mwalker/NashStory.htm):</a></p>
<p>In the fall of 1945, Nash enrolled at Carnegie-Mellon, then Carnegie Tech, in Pittsburgh. It was there that the label "genius" was first applied to Nash. His mathematics professor called him "a young Gauss" in class one day, referring to the great German mathematician. Nash switched from chemistry to math in his freshman year. Two years later he had a BS and was studying for an MS.</p>
<p>CMU is very well known in the business world. I have a friend who does a lot of hiring in one of the largest U.S. consumer-product companies, and CMU is the FIRST place they go to hire. So you are going to a great place.</p>
<p>CMU is awesome, it is a great choice</p>
<p>yeah dude, CMU definitely is the tops for anything technology related. BTW - I am applying there as a chemical engineering major....wish me luck and again congrats to you.</p>
<p>Congrats on getting in. :) One of my online friends said his employer has commented favorably on his CMU education when giving him a raise.</p>
<p>duke3d4,</p>
<p>my son is a fifth year computer science major at CMU (getting masters in a business area, hence the 5th year). </p>
<p>I'll still get a bit of a blank stare when i tell some people Carnegie Mellon...one of my son's high school friends thought it was a bank, but I get many more people esp more my age who know it's a great school. I think the fact it doesn't have D1 sports, plus the Pittsburgh location, are part of the reason some of the general public doesn't know CMU.</p>
<p>Fact is Pittsburgh is a thoroughly enjoyable city with all you'll need minus some of the hassles size brings, like a Phila or NY. Carnegie experience for him has been top-notch and he's loved just about everything about it. Recruitng experience has borne out Carnegie Mellon's reputation...he's headed to Goldman Sachs after graduation, his friends are getting equally impressive offers.</p>
<p>It's a great school, don't doubt it for another second. Good luck.</p>