<p>Someone said on another thread that there were 30k plus applicants to CMU. Is this correct? Did CMU get far more applicants this year in the past? Were the applicant numbers released? This is news to us.</p>
<p>I'm fairly sure I read the total was between 21 and 22,000. Down a bit from last year's 22,000+ but they had a couple huge gains in '06 and '07 (on the order of ~20% increases each year, something like that). Admit rates should be similar to "07 or a tad higher depending on the school of course.</p>
<p>Do you know how many applicants there were for the School of Computer Science? How many admits? Thank you.</p>
<p>Last year's numbers for SCS:
College Applied Admitted Enrolled SAT-CR† SAT-M† SAT-WR† Rank‡ GPA
SCS 2,307 431 143 650-750 740-800 640-730 6% 3.78</p>
<p>from Admission</a> Statistics</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many people applied to the School of architecture this year?</p>
<p>on the admission statistics,is "rank" the average high school decile rank of entering students?</p>
<p>I couldn't figure out what they meant by rank. Most of the SCS class was in the top 6% of their class? Who knows. The welcoming remarks implied that a lot of students were the top of their class. (The professor speaking was number two in his, which was part of the joke.)</p>
<p>Also somewhat amusing factoid, my son was in some class when someone asked, "So who here was rejected by MIT?" Nearly everyone raised their hand.</p>
<p>There is a joke at CMU that it's a school for MIT rejects, but I imagine at most all top engineering schools you'll find most people had applied to MIT as a reach.</p>
<p>Also, I remember during orientation week they told us how many valedictorians they had rejected, how many perfect SATs they had rejected, and other junk like that to make us feel even more special. CMU has a bit of a elitism thing going on because so few people know of us despite how good of a school we are. :(</p>
<p>I've talked to working computer engineers and they know what CMU is. It's just that mainstream people don't. MIT of course have movies (21) to make itself known to laypeople. </p>
<p>CMU has robots: </p>
<p>Well, there's a reason why CMU is ranked so highly by employers - if they know it, they KNOW it! </p>
<p>Maybe more people will know it when this movie comes out: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0858479/%5B/url%5D">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0858479/</a> I was very excited to find the trailer even though they hardly show the campus. <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/smartpeople/trailer/%5B/url%5D">http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/smartpeople/trailer/</a> </p>
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<p>DS is definitely smart even if MIT did reject him! Hip....? :cool:</p>
<p>Wow, so many people will want to go see a movie called "Smart People".</p>
<p>My S did apply to CMU but after much reflection and 2 visits over two years decided that MIT just didn't fit as UG school. Has said maybe it is a better graduate experience. Decided to apply to CMU after initially saying he wouldn't - also after 2 visits over two years.</p>
<p>Which schools did he decide to apply to at CMU? I think CMU is great if you think you match with specific schools. My son did not apply to MIT. MIT seems very intense for undergraduate education. Also, I heard last year that top boys at my son's high school were denied admission into MIT.</p>
<p>He applied CIT, Coll of Science and H&SS. He knows of 2 friends that applied MIT one accepted, one not.</p>