<p>@DRose, when you say CMU places 5000 on waitlist. Does it include students who are accepted into one or more schools but waitlisted on other schools?</p>
<p>If that’s the case, the waitlist may not be as long as it seems.</p>
<p>I talked with FA today - FA packages being mailed today - will be online Monday.</p>
<p>How do we check decisions?? I haven’t gotten ANY emails from CMU…</p>
<p>your Decision letter point them out that which college you have been accepted, another - waitlist?</p>
<p>Financial aid packages will be sent out beginning of next week, possibly the end of this week (I called the office).</p>
<p>Cortana - crazy how we get different info:</p>
<p>This is the email I rec’d from CMU:</p>
<p>Thanks for your email to the Carnegie Mellon University Office of Admission.</p>
<p>Financial aid decision letters will begin going out tomorrow, so most likely, you should receive some sort of notification by the end of the week. By next week, your letter should be uploaded to our “Where Am I in the Process?” page.</p>
<p>Best regards from Carnegie Mellon’s Office of Admission.</p>
<p>wait where are you guys seeing your decisions?</p>
<p>go through the portal you use to check your application.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED TO CIT & MCS!!! I wrote out all the stats & then somehow it wouldn’t let me post, so I probably won’t do it again haha. But I’m so excited, this was my dream school & I really feel like I belong here. Does anyone know if CMU allows roommate preference? I went to the SAMS program this summer and my roommate from that is also attending CMU next year. </p>
<p>Congrats to everyone else who was accepted, and to those who were not, keep your heads up! I was rejected from Rice but that’s just alright because CMU is the school for me, always has been. :)</p>
<p>Anyone else here potentially doing the BXA Program? </p>
<p>And does anyone know how much CMU might give to a student whose family income>100k, with one sibling already in college? As of right now, it looks like I’ll either be attending RISD or Rice University for architecture</p>
<p>So I was waitlisted for CIT - ECE (which was the only thing I applied for), but I got my letter today saying that I was accepted to all the other departments at CIT, even though I only picked CIT - ECE when I applied. Did this happen to anyone else?</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 770CR 650M 650W
[</em>] ACT: Did not Take
[<em>] SAT II: 710 Math II 690 Bio
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.77
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 20/326
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc AP, CHS Comp Sci 1, CHS World History, AP English, AP Psychology, AP Spanish
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Robotics Stuff</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): A bunch, mostly science or engineering related except for tow that are tutoring and arts based.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Working two jobs since freshman year.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Over 5,000 hours or something like htat
[</em>] Summer Activities: MITES!
[<em>] Essays:My essays were really well written and CMU specific. I’ve written for my local newspaper numerous times and writing is probably my best skill.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both Great spent two years with math recc (Pre-Calc and AP Calc) and two years with English recc (AP english and Latin)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Also another Boss recc
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[li] Interview: Didn’t interview (they had interviews 0.o)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): PA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public/Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Black
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: <15000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, First generation, dirt poor, huge interest in STEM and spreading STEM in poor neighborhoods.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Essays, Interest, Reccs
[</em>] Weaknesses: SATs, GPA
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I showed a huge amount of specific interest in their school and a love for CS (I started coding on paper lol)
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: RPI, Wesleyan, UMD, Northwestern Rejected: MIT, GaTech Waitlisted: Drexel (lol)</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>**Decision: Accepted (MCS) **</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Math:760 Writing: 720 Critical Reading: 690
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] SAT II: Math II: 780 Chem:750 Physics:680
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Weighted 3.94
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Does not rank, top 10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):AP Chemistry (5) AP Calculus BC(5) AP English Language (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:AP Physics C Mechanics and E/M, AP Statistics, Calculus 3 H, AP Art History, AP English Literature, Spanish 4 H
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):None
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Track and Field JV, Cross Country JV, State Chemistry League 1 and 2, Cinematography Club (Vice President), Yearbook (President) Equestrian, Science Honors Society, Mu Alpha Theta Math Honors Society
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:International banking corporation in IT for 3 weeks as a rising junior
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:Tutoring math and chemistry ~200 hours
[<em>] Summer Activities: 2010: Work Experience at international banking corporation 2011: 5 week summer classes at Washington University in St Louis
[</em>] Essays:good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation:Hopefully very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec:Unsure
[<em>] Additional Rec:None
[</em>] Interview:None</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type:Public
[</em>] Ethnicity:Caucasian (dual citizenship USA and New Zealand)
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:
[</em>] Weaknesses:
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Rutgers Arts and Science Honors, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Waitlisted: Washing University in St. Louis Rejected: Princeton</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>Kleibo i think your email is saying basically what i was told actually</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (SCS, IS, & CIT)</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2390 (790 W, 800 M, 800 CR)
[</em>] ACT: 35 composite w/writing, but didn’t submit
[<em>] SAT II: 780 M2, 780 Lit, 720 Physics, 630 Spanish
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2nd when I applied; currently 1st
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), European History (5), Statistics (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: All my classes are APs
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): the usual. nothing huge.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): One major activity with leadership over 4 years. A couple years of debate and NHS. Some other “for fun” clubs.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: none (except through school)
[<em>] Summer Activities: some less prestigious pre-college programs that I took as much for fun as for credit
[</em>] Essays: I really loved my common app essay. It didn’t have anything to do with school, just personal stuff that was more important to me. As for the supplement, I didn’t spend much time on it at all - I wrote a long paragraph about CS and shorter ones about IS and ECE, relating each program to my HS activities and plans for the future.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: didn’t read them. presumably good.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: ditto
[<em>] Additional Rec: none
[</em>] Interview: just a quick chat with an admissions counselor during my visit. She went over testing requirements, then asked what I was looking for in a college and if I had questions. Not great, not terrible.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): in the Midwest
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Income Bracket: probably too high for financial aid
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): female in CS/Engineering?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I have a strong math & science background (advanced classes & lots of math contests) but I also excel in English. I read all the time and I love creative writing, which helped my essays and my scores on SAT CR & SAT II Lit.
[</em>] Weaknesses: I don’t have many leadership roles, and no self-initiated stuff like starting a small business or inventing something. I only did science fair when it was required for a class, and I’ve never done actual research at all.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My scores and grades proved I was qualified, and I’d guess my interest in writing set me apart.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected from MIT, so I didn’t have high hopes for this one–it was a great relief to get such a positive response! Accepted to UW and UT Austin; still waiting on Brown.</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: For future applicants, make sure your application reflects all the different parts of your personality. The people in Admissions want to get a sense of who you are, and they can’t do that just by looking at grades, scores, and even ECs. Don’t make their job harder than it has to be! If your essays are original and honest you’ll be more likely to stand out.</p>
<p>Accepted to Tepper!!! Will post stats later :)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (SCS and CIT ECE)</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800R 800M 740W (9 essay)
[</em>] ACT: Nopes
[<em>] SAT II: 800 MathII, 800 Bio, 800 Physics, 770 US
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A but top 10% because of Cum Laude
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (5), CompSci (5), APUSH (5), Calc AB (5), Calc BC (5), English Lit (4), Euro (5), Physics B (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Nopes
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Lang, AP Physics C, a watered down 1/2 credit multivariable calc class, AP Spanish Lang, Advanced Topics in Computer Science, 1/2 credit 2d studio art
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing major, but the usual Nat’l Merit Finalist and Nat’l. AP Scholar. A few mid-low awards in art and math.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Math Club/team (Prez), Political Club (Prez), Art Society, school literary/visual arts magazine staff, Tennis (JV and Varsity)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Nothing at the time I applied
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 120ish hours at library (lead volunteer), 30ish at school
[<em>] Summer Activities: Research for two summers at Ohio State’s Cancer Center, Library Volunteering, went to a couple camps the summer after frosh year
[</em>] Essays: Amazing
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Should have been amazing
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably really good
[<em>] Additional Rec: Research Mentor, really good
[</em>] Interview: LOL… Completely bombed it (though it might be worse in my head than in reality… I asked a lot of questions that were fairly specific)</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): OH
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Small (<90 per grade), “competitive” private school (sends 8ish people a year to top 10 schools or top 5 LACs, but most are weaker than the people who got accepted and post their stats on College Confidential)
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 100,000+
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): My stunning good looks</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Scores, “well roundedness,” reasonable course load, essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: lack of real accomplishments
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I have a reasonable amount of CS experience and am fairly decent overall for a CMU applicant
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: Ohio State Honors, Pitt full-ride, University of Cincinnati, Case Western, Wash U
Deferred at Yale, Waitlisted at UChicago</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
Congrats to everyone accepted. There is a fair chance that I am attending, since CMU’s SCS is pretty amazing, but the lack of financial aid is a turn-off. Good luck for anyone who is applying!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted - Tepper</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280 (790 CR, 720 MTH, 770 WR)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Chinese, 750 Literature, 680 World History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Economics (4), Literature and Composition (5), US Government (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 7 AP’s, 2 self-studied, 1 honor science class
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, Forensics awards</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Started a 2k/month revenue business, published a number of economy/current events articles in online political magazines, several awards in competitive speech/debate
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Online business
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Nothing that would hook my app
[</em>] Summer Activities: Nothing that would hook my app
[<em>] Essays: Above-average
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: No idea, should have been pretty good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: ditto.
[</em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[li] Interview: N/A</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): PA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Home-schooled =]
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 50-70k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): ORM lolol no hooks whatsover</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Academic/extracurricular initiative, passion for economics/business/entrepreneurship
[</em>] Weaknesses: Extremely disadvantaged ethnicity/gender, homeschooled (they probably didn’t put much weight into my GPA)
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was qualified, but not extraordinary. classic waitlister
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My first decision so far.</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
I stupidly applied to Tepper as a safety, not realizing that it has a ~13% admission rate haha</p>
<p>I gotta ask - are there any domestic white males that got into SCS? I haven’t seen any.</p>
<p>Carnegie Institute of Technology Decision: Waitlisted
Tepper School of Business Decision: Waitlisted
Mellon College of Science Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 700 R 770 M 760 W
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 800 MII 780 Chem 770 US Hist
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.62
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 36/780 (only 2 spots from 1, gawd darn it!)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro(5), Calc BC(5), Calc Ab subscore(5), Lang(5) Physics C: Mech(5), Physics C: E&M(4), Chem(5), Stat(4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics B, AP US History, AP Comp Sci, AP Lit, AP Micro, Advanced Honors Speech, German 2H
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Summer organization (co-founder) for a cultural exchange (treasurer), 2 time MARS camp participant, 1 time NYLC participant (lol), 1 time SLRC AKA rehab center volunteer.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: ~50ish hours at the library.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Listed above
[</em>] Essays: Solid
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Unknown
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Unknown
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: Didn’t get one.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): PA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~$200+
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT II’s, SAT I (depending)
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA, Ethnicity & Income, EC’s.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Didn’t got for ED, really regretting it now 
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted PSU Schreyer Honors, Drexel Honors, Boston College.
Rejected MIT.
Waitlisted UC Berkeley, UChicago.</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: Well, that’s rather interesting. It looks like I’m going to have a lot of wait listing, hah! Good Luck to everyone else, and Congradulations to everyone who got in!</p>