<p>I think I saw on thier site that thier average GPA is a 3.61?</p>
<p>I have a 3.4 (upward trend), national/international level EC's and a 35 ACT.</p>
<p>Michigan is my dream school, but they screw me with thier GPA system (take off al + and -) so I was looking at other reach schools.</p>
<p>What major? CMU admission standards vary quite a bit across the different colleges.</p>
<p>Oh. I'm interested in business, but if the standards are too high for business then I'm also interested in the general college of arts and sciences.</p>
<p>i have a feeling that the 3.6 is quite a bit lower than what it actually is..</p>
<p>The 3.6 is the adjusted GPA Unweighted. I believe courses like gym and stuff are not counted and remember to take out CFA as their requirements are mostly based on auditions and not their scores.</p>
<p>What I would do is to just look at the %. Make sure you are in the top 5-10% of your class. Business however has gotten a huge increase in app over the 20% overall so apply ED if you can.</p>
<p>We just went to an info night and got enough info to determine that averages are useless. The fine arts school drags the averages down because admission there is portfolio-based. Average SAT and GPA in that college is REALLY LOW. Average SAT is well over 700 in math for all schools outside of the fine arts college. </p>
<p>I am really discourated after attending the info session--from the stats it looked like CMU might be a port in a storm, but everybody else saw that too and their app volume went crazy this year.</p>
<p>Mombot: Don't worry. If you write your essays write you can get in easily. Just make sure you are adding something of value to the school and are truly interested and not just coming because of prestige/etc.</p>
<p>After attending the info night D. decided not even to apply. There are what, 5000 or so undergrads and they have all those different colleges. It seemed really fragmented to her and actually made her more aware that a classic liberal arts college, which seems to be set up for kids like her, who could go in any one of ten different directions, would be better for her.</p>
<p>If your daughter is interested in the typical liberal arts college sort of thing, CMU isn't the right school for her. While it is possible to come in not knowing exactly what you want to do, it can be stressful to put in school-switching application forms. Also, H&SS isn't exactly a big presence on campus.</p>
<p>Not great for a liberal artsy experience, but even if you're not 100% sure about your major choice, it really isn't that hard to switch around. I know many people who say I'm an X major, but I used to be a Y and before that...</p>
<p>Just to clarify - CFA's stats are lower than the rest of the school, but be aware that schools within CFA vary greatly. The theater dept. places nearly all its emphasis on the audition....the fine arts depts. (painting, etc.) place a little more emphasis on stats....school of design makes admit decisions based 50/50 between portfolio/academics...and I'm pretty sure that the architecture dept. does not want a portfolio at all - they are largely based on academics - and want to see a heavy concentration in math and the hard sciences.</p>
<p>CMU isn't extremely selective except for their computer programming department. In the rest of their departments, they accepted at least half of their applicants. It shouldn't be too hard just work hard in your classes, do reasonably well on the SATs, and express some interest in CMU in your essays and you should get in. CMU is a technical good school, but it isn't really that difficult to get in like an MIT or Caltech.</p>
<p>yeah but you gotta look at the stats of those who applied.. half of the applicants means nothing if all your applicants scored well above 2000 on their SAT and had wayyy higher than a 3.0 GPA.. you know?</p>
<p>Bach: The Tepper school has a 19.23% acceptance rate
CIT has around 30 I think? MCS has a self selecting applicant pool and SCS has a 20% something acceptance rate as well.</p>
<p>Saying CMU accepted at least half (50%) is quite erroneous. The Drama/Music departments take only 10-12 or a handful (around six) out of HUNDREDs.</p>
<p>Well I agree with NYsweetie about looking at the applicants who applied. For instance, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon have comparable acceptance rates (46% for Pitt, 39% for CMU), but the average SAT at CMU is like 300 points better (on the Old SATs). Maybe what I was trying to say got taken out of context. I wasn't saying that CMU isn't a quality school, I was just saying that if you work hard in high school, it's a very realistic goal. Whereas MIT and Caltech, some (if not most) of the hardest working students in the country still get turned away.</p>
<p>AcceptedAlready, I just looked up the actual stats on CMU's website. You are right about the Tepper School of Business. I wasn't considering business really when I was looking through colleges, so I obviously overlooked that. Definitely a very selective business school. CIT is not 30% though, it is 48%. Mellon College of Science (MCS) and College of Humanties and Social Science (HSS) are both well above 50%. SCS is actually lower than 20%, but that is CMU's best department as I mentioned in the previous e-mail. Like I said before, if you are trying to go to CMU for computers you have a tough road ahead.</p>
<p>Bach: Yeah you are right about CIT. I don't know where I heard 30 something from, perhaps it was this year's stats instead of last years? I think CIT/MCS are pretty self-selecting (much like UChicago and its Econ). I didn't know SCS was below 20% either. To let you in on a secret though; people here don't work as hard as they complain about :) </p>
<p>I definitely agree with : "Whereas MIT and Caltech, some (if not most) of the hardest working students in the country still get turned away.
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<p>But make sure you account for CFA, Tepper, and SCS (which you did). Those 3 schools are quite a sizable amount of CMU. ECE is also quite hard (separate from CMU's CIT) as an interdisciplinary; it is not as hard as SCS but is harder than CIT to get into. </p>
<p>CMU is holistic in admissions so I can understand some of where this comes from but having very selective/prestigious SCS/ECE/IS/Business/Drama/Arts programs with moderate liberal arts and a great engineering program that is overall tied with Cornell at #8 is nothing to be scoffed at.</p>
<p>Hopefully this year's data will show even more selectivity :)</p>
<p>ECE is part of CIT AcceptedAlready...</p>
<p>Its selectivity is different. ECE is harder than the rest of CIT (is my point I guess). I think I was thinking of IS as the interdisciplinary; oops.</p>