For those offered the Scholars programs, were you offered that in your acceptance letter? Did you indicate an interest in the program in your application? I read for one that you can try and trasnfer in at the end of Freshman year and if I attend I may do that.
@NICE8x can you analyze my letter snippet lol (idk of i got in CIT undecided or CIT ece)
“Congratulations! It is an honor to invite you to join Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering for Fall 2016. If you enroll in the College of Engineering, you will have the opportunity to select a major from the departments of Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science & Engineering, as well as our double major programs in Engineering & Public Policy and Biomedical Engineering.”
The question remains: Why would anyone accept the regular wait list instead of the priority wait list? Seems hard to understand why there are even two lists?
@skalvakota Can you please PM or post the body of the letter because I want to compare with mine to see if I am wait listed on those colleges as well? I had the following
Mellon College of Science and School of Computer Science and for Fall 2016. Each year, Carnegie
Mellon receives an increasing number of applications from very talented students. Because of space
limitations and the large number of students who are interested in the College of Engineering, Mellon
College of Science and School of Computer Science and , we are unable to offer you admission at this
time and have placed your name on our waiting list.
Unfortunately, we do not anticipate any wait list openings in Electrical and Computer Engineering. As a
result, your name has been placed on a waiting list for the other departments in the College of
Engineering. xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx
@MOMANDBOYSTWO The reason you wouldn’t accept the priority waitlist is because it is like an ED where if you get in you have to go. If you are on multiple waitlists (like if you are on a waitlist for Carnegie but also Brown let’s say) and you get off the Carnegie waitlist you have to go to Carnegie. Or if you change your mind and they accept you off the waitlist at a very late date and you no longer want to go, you still have to go to Carnegie.
@adhebbar I read your snippet and you are allowed to pick any major (so you can do ECE if you want or a different major if you would like).
I agree that these wait list letters are a bit confusing. However, from the way rbdahl’s letter is written, it appears to me that he/she is on the wait list for all three schools (but not including the ECE major in the College of Engineering). Probably worth a call to Admissions to confirm.
That is helpful Thanks. I thought I might have read that commitment part incorrectly on the CMU website, because I couldn’t fathom how any college would/could hold a kid hostage to a wait list position. I hope they don’t have access to personal information about where kids have accepted other wait lists or made a deposit? It’s bad enough that colleges are filling half of their classes with Early Decision applicants these days and that wait lists are often larger than a whole freshman class! My questions are probably moot/irrelevant because he is not likely to get a spot off the wait list anyway, but I find this “commitment” priority wait list option odd. Good thing he is off enjoying spring break and hopefully not worrying about these annoying details. He has a lot of other excellent options, although CMU was amongst his top choices.
Just got the FAT letter this morning, was accepted last night through the portal
Accepted to Mellon School of Science! So surreal omg, congrats to all others who got in! And if you didn’t go elsewhere, let your wings spread, and prove carnegie mellon wrong! 
For those of you who got priority waitlisted, I don’t want to give you false hope but the chance of getting accepted off the waitlist is really slim. So I would rather remove myself from it. Last year, literally 0 ppl get off the priority waitlist across all departments. Priority waitlist is just an indirect way to say we are rejected.
For some reason I got two letters from cmu today…one says I was accepted (from the fat thing) and the other one says I’m waitlisted??? did this happen to anyone else?
Does everyone have the opportunity to choose the priority waitlist? In my letter it says that they are giving me the opportunity to be on the priority waitlist. If they say that to everyone then that means noting to me… Also, do you think chances of admission are higher in the priority waitlist? It would be right- because it shows a commitment
@terr24lr I’m pretty sure not everyone is on PW. And I would say chances of admission are higher for PW since they contact ppl on PW first. Also, PW is binding so once you are admitted you have to attend. They admit so few ppl off the waitlist tho. Last year, some folks on cc really got pissed off when they waited for months but were told CMU wouldn’t accept anyone. I think PW is really just giving ppl false hope.
Son was admitted at the College of Engineering (ChemE is his major of choice). The letter says about Electrical Engineering and CS not being available as majors if he were to choose them. By the way, the FAT letter arrived today.
Maybe chances PW depend on the department? Who knows.
Is the priority waiting list first come first serve type of deal or do they evaluate all the applicants again to number them off by credentials/ECs?
My FAT letter also arrived today (in South Florida).
Does anyone know when we get the financial aid info?
@NICE8x I was wondering the same thing…we get an error when we try to look at the financial aid and we’re sure we submitted all docs