**Official Carnegie Mellon University Class of 2013 RD Decisions Thread**

<p>Are there any accepted people who haven't gotten the admissions letter yet? I found out that I got into HSS through the online thing but haven't gotten the letter yet.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted (CFA, HSS, and IS)</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): W740, M730, CR690= 2160
[</em>]SAT II:US History 770, Math 2c 730, Bio 500 (Hah! They're not supposed to count this though)
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.7
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):25%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): physics B 3, Lang 4, US History 4
[</em>]Senior Year Course Load: AP French, AP Art, AP Gov, AP Calc BC, Econ, Honors English
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, National Merit Commended....Not so major...[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Editor-in-Chief of Lit. Arts Mag, President of Amnesty, Events Coordinator for community service club, artist
[</em>]Volunteer/Community service: miscellaneous.
[<em>] Summer Activities: CMU PRE-COLLEGE 2008!
[</em>]Essays: It was about a No on Prop 8 rally I attended.
[<em>]Teacher Recommendation: Apparently good enough.
[</em>]Counselor Rec:Apparently good enough.
[<em>] Additional Rec: From my pre-college TA's...pretty decent, I assume!
[</em>] Interview: No.
[/ul]</p>

<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[</em>]CMU college/s applied to: CFA, HSS, IS
[<em>] Intended Major: BHA in Art and Social and Cultural History (aka sociology, haha)
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant):California
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: competitive public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender:F
[<em>] Income Bracket:<40,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first-generation, attended pre-college
[/ul]</p>

<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: connection to pre-college, art portfolio, upward GPA, schools applied to are easier to get into than, say, SCS
[</em>] Weaknesses: rank is nevertheless lower than average
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I went to pre-college, so I wrote about my experiences there in my "Why CMU" essay. :)[/li][/ul]General Comments: I'm quite excited! I'm waiting on my financial aid package...I have a feeling it won't please me, but I'm crossing my fingers! I'm waiting for other schools this week, so I'll see :). P.S. Congrats to all who've been accepted. I wish everyone who hasn't heard back yet luck!</p>

<p>@ Juliet </p>

<p>I would love to go to CMU, they've got everything I want in academics and I would be a total nerd goddess :) </p>

<p>I haven't submitted fafsa yet though due to family issues, and none of my relatives have good credit, so I have absolutely no earthly clue how I would possibly be able to pay for it. I'm going to call them and ask for help tomorrow though, so we'll see. </p>

<p>I was also accepted to the University of Florida and am waiting on UVA and BC. UF and the state of Florida are giving me a 100 percent tuition/books scholarship with a semester allowance...so that may hold me back from an otherwise perfect school...<em>shrug</em> </p>

<p>200-something students is still really small for an entire college; I look forward to the small classes.</p>

<p>@tsaim</p>

<p>I haven't gotten the letter yet either; I looked online. A bit anti-climactic, but it still brought me nearly to tears.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted (CIT)</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>]SAT I: 2290 (800 M, 800 W, 690 CR)
[</em>]ACT: (not taken)
[<em>]SAT II: 800 Math IIc, 750 Physics
[</em>]Unweighted GPA: 4.0
[<em>]Rank: Probably 1 or 2 out of about 250
[</em>]AP: AP Calculus AB (5), AP Physics MechC (4), AP World History (4)
[<em>]Senior Year Course Load: Most rigorous
[</em>]Major Awards: Macworld 2008 Video Contest (Grand Prize), NFL National Qualifier in Duo Interpretation
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:[list]
[li]Speech & Debate (several state and national awards)[/li][</em>]FIRST Lego League (volunteer coach)
[<em>]Tug of War Engineering Challenge (captain, won research award)
[</em>]Math Team (created the team)
[<em>]Spanish Club (president)[/ul]
[li]Job/Work Experience: Freelance Website Design[/li][</em>]Volunteer/Community service: 200 hours as volunteer computer instructor in Philippines
[<em>]Summer Activities: National Speech & Debate Tournament, volunteering in Philippines
[</em>]Essays:[ul]
[<em>]Common App - Hard drive died, lost thousands of photos, value of memories
[</em>]Supplement - Interest in engineering, fit at Carnegie Mellon[/ul]
[<em>]Teacher Rec: Math teacher has known me for 3 years, wrote one that is bound to be amazing
[</em>]Counselor Rec: I know my counselor fairly well, and they took this recommendation very seriously.
[<em>]Additional Recs: one from middle school teacher and mentor, another from Bates college professor
[</em>] Interview: None
[/list]Other[ul]
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>]CMU college/s applied to: CIT
[<em>]Intended Major: Engineering
[</em>]State: Maine
[<em>]School Type: Small Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Filipino-American
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Income Bracket: Relatively low
[<em>]Hooks: Nothing in particular.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: I was satisfied with my application, and I sent in supplemental material.
[<em>] Weaknesses: None that I can think of.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: All of the above.
[/ul]General Comments: It's going to be tough to decide between this and a full boat to WPI.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 740 Math, 680 CR, 670W
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: Math2:800, French: 760, Physics: 730
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.945
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography(5), World Hist.(4), English Language(4), MicroEcon(4), French Language (4), US Hist(2)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Taking all exams this may
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB Full Diploma Program:SL Physics, HL History, HL Economics, HL Math, HL English, AP Bio, AP Comp Sci
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Class Exec (Sr. Class President, Fresh-Junior Secretaries), Softball (Captain), Beta Club (Treasurer), Asian Club (Officer), NHS, Tennis, Band, Winter Guard, Soccer Managing, Tutor Club, Relay for Life, SGA, Interact
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 3 months as a busser at J. Christopher's
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: lots.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Took 4 idTech Courses this summer in 3d Modelling and Special FX
[</em>] Essays: Common App Essay was essentially my opinion about censorship, CMU essay talked about my desire to do special fx and how going to CMU woudl help
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Math teacher (doesnt teach me this year) ive known since sophomore year
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Awesome, knows me very well
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: On campus, lasted about 1hr, went very well.
[/list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yep
[</em>] CMU college/s applied to: CIT, SCS, SFA (design)
[<em>] Intended Major: Comp. Engineering
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): GA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[</em>] School Type: public, large, majority black and hispanic
[<em>] Ethnicity: Mostly Asian (Filipino, Japanese, Irish)
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: Mid Low
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A
[/list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[<em>] Strengths: Extra Curriculars, Interviewer seemed to really like me, GPA
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT scores, Math/Physics scores were B's
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: see "strengths" area i guess..[/li][/list][ b]General Comments:[ /b] Good Luck!!</p>

<p>oops.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 740 Math, 680 CR, 670W
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: Math2:800, French: 760, Physics: 730
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.945
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography(5), World Hist.(4), English Language(4), MicroEcon(4), French Language (4), US Hist(2)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Taking all exams this may
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB Full Diploma Program:SL Physics, HL History, HL Economics, HL Math, HL English, AP Bio, AP Comp Sci
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Class Exec (Sr. Class President, Fresh-Junior Secretaries), Softball (Captain), Beta Club (Treasurer), Asian Club (Officer), NHS, Tennis, Band, Winter Guard, Soccer Managing, Tutor Club, Relay for Life, SGA, Interact
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 3 months as a busser at J. Christopher's
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: lots.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Took 4 idTech Courses this summer in 3d Modelling and Special FX
[</em>] Essays:
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation:
[</em>] Counselor Rec:
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?:
[</em>] CMU college/s applied to:
[<em>] Intended Major:
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type:
[<em>] Ethnicity:
[</em>] Gender:
[<em>] Income Bracket:
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:
[</em>] Weaknesses:
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li][/ul][ b]General Comments:[ /b] Good Luck!!</p>

<p>*Decision: Accepted (Tepper) *</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 610 CR; 740 W; 770 M
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II:800 Math IIC; 690 CHEM; 650 WH
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):Calculus AB 4; Music Theory 4; Chinese 5
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:AP CHEM; AP ENG LIT; AP Cal; etc.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AMC Bronze metal (I don't know how I got it last year)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):math team (president); concertmistress for orchestra; performances on pipa (a Chinese instrument)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: private piano teacher
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Jubilee Church for music teacher
[<em>] Summer Activities:
[</em>] Essays:both common app one and the why I want to go to CMU one are pretty good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation:AP U.S. one might be pretty good, and AP Cal one might be mediocre
[</em>] Counselor Rec: pretty good
[<em>] Additional Rec:my orchestra teacher wrote me a great recommendation
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?:yes (i'm still waiting for my big envolope)
[</em>] CMU college/s applied to: Tepper only
[<em>] Intended Major: business administration
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type:Large public school
[<em>] Ethnicity:Asian (Chinese)
[</em>] Gender:F
[<em>] Income Bracket:
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I'm an immigrant...(i've been in the U.S. for 4 yrs)
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:music
[</em>] Weaknesses: volunteer (I didn't have enough time to do it well)
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I sent my recording on piano and pipa, and I really played like a professional in the recording. [/li][/ul]General Comments: Don't worry about the blank line! I didn't have a blank line, and I got in!</p>

<p>*Decision: Accepted (CIT: All Majors) *</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2250 (740 CR, 770 M, 740 W)
[</em>] ACT:34
[<em>] SAT II: 770 M2, 780 P, 790 CH
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (4.47 W)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/139
[</em>] AP: APUSH (4) AP English Lang (3)--Our teacher screwed us over...
[<em>] IB: N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs and 3 regular courses
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended, Bausch and Lomb Award, Yale Book Award, NSA Scholarship</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Band, lots of generic stuff.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 31 hours / wk at BarBQ restaurant
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Standard
[</em>] Summer Activities: Non-paid internship at southwest research institute
[<em>] Essays: i thought they were pretty good. i half-assed the one about why i ranked the cmu schools the way i did
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Great ones from APUSH teacher who had taught me for 3 straight years and was my academic team leader and from my Physics teacher who loved me
[<em>] Counselor Rec: probably mediocre cuz she just got here and doesnt know us.
[</em>] Additional Rec: None.
[li] Interview: None.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes.
[</em>] CMU college/s applied to: CIT
[<em>] Intended Major: ECE
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[</em>] School Type: Religious
[<em>] Ethnicity: White as can be....
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] Income Bracket: Middle Income
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>

<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: My essay that talked about why I continue to do my crappy job and explained how i am extremely rational/logical
[</em>] Weaknesses: should have done real research....
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: test scores/essays[/li][/ul]General Comments: it wasnt a terribly hard application, and cmu is a good school. congrats to everyone who got in.</p>

<p>Does anyone else who hasn't received their decision find it extremely disconcerting that there have been no rejections yet? I know its making me stressed out.</p>

<p>chaoticcrisis, my stats are very similar to you, except i'm asian male. hopefully i get in too!</p>

<p>effward, there have been rejections. </p>

<p>The people that are posting that they are accepted aren't the only people that found out. The rejects probably won't post because they are too embarrassed.</p>

<ul>
<li>If your stats are similar to these kids, you shouldn't worry. (Not that every kid has around a 2300 and a 4.0) lol.</li>
</ul>

<p>qazwsx1!, I guess I am just used to the MIT decision thread where people posted rejections and acceptances. I still have not actually heard of any one getting rejected.</p>

<p>On a positive note, my stats are similar to these kids', plus I did pre-college at CMU.... so hopefully that will help. I just don't understand why they have to keep me waiting for so long when 2 of my friends have already been accepted.</p>

<p>*Decision: Accepted- CIT *</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 780 CR, 750 M, 750 W
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: 760 Math II, 720 Physics, 720 Lit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): only know weighted out of 100 -- 100.762
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): estimated 3 out of 120 ish
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro (5), English Lang (5), Physics B (4), French Lang (3 - teacher was a joke)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP U.S. History, AP English Lit, AP Biology, Forensics Honors
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): not really major - national merit and ap scholar with honor
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): newspaper (editor), french club (co president) key club (vice president) national honor society (secretary) peer tutor, french national honor society, student council
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: babysitting/ summer nanny throughout high school
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 100+ hours - food pantry and cancer center
[</em>] Summer Activities: travel to ireland to visit family, work as a nanny, other travel
[<em>] Essays: pretty good... i loved my common app essay
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: good good good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: probably really good
[</em>] Interview: it went really well... we talked easily and she sent me the report she sent and it was really positive
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: nope...
[</em>] CMU college/s applied to: CIT, MCS - accepted to both
[<em>] Intended Major: mechanical engineering
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CT
[<em>] School Type: private (catholic)
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): no hooks
[/ul]Reflection[list]
[<em>] Strengths: strong all around, girl in engineering?
[</em>] Weaknesses: my sats arent perfect 800s!
[*] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: lucky? I think I was in range but I didn't have anything extraordinary in my application</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted (TSB)</p>

<p>Decision: Waitlisted(CIT)</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2170 (800m, 720w, 650r)
[</em>] ACT:1
[<em>] SAT II: 800m2, 800chem, 790cl, 770 ush
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9ish
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):1/100ish
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): (5)(5)(3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 3 AP
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Not even a perfect attendance award
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Captain, President, Community Service, Internships, those common stuff...
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Interned at UBS and Citi
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: tutoring
[<em>] Summer Activities:work
[</em>] Essays:mediocre
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation:good
[</em>] Counselor Rec:good
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: could have been better
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?:yes
[</em>] CMU college/s applied to: TSB, CIT
[<em>] Intended Major: Finance
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[<em>] School Type: Public (sm)
[</em>] Ethnicity: The ORM
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: the lowest one imaginable
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): antihook
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: math/sci
[<em>] Weaknesses: everything else
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I want to know too.
[/ul]General Comments: I may not attend, so GL to the people on the TSB waitlist!</p>

<p>Im in Sountern California (Los Angeles) I am I a reject because I haven't received anything yet?</p>

<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2330 (790 M, 740 CR, 800 W) (one sitting)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Physics, 800 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.69, where 4.0 = 97-100, 3 2/3 = 94-96, 3 1/3 = 90-93, (and etc. down through the B's and C's. D = 0)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9 / 540
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): English Language (5), US History (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Standard Level Computer Science (7)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Full IB classes
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Academic Decathlon (captain) (1st place overall district every year, 1st place regionals 11th grade); Mu Alpha Theta (President); NHS;
Mathematics, Calculator, and Computer Science UIL (generally place in all at district level)</p>

<p>[li] Job/Work Experience:[/li] Editor summer before 11th grade</p>

<p>[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Created website on which people can host competitive scrimmages (multiple choice test creation / taking / ranking / etc)
[</em>] Summer Activities:
[<em>] Essays: Very polished
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Haven't seen, but should be excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Doesn't know me very well (large school)
[</em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[<em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>] CMU college/s applied to: SCS
[</em>] Intended Major: Computer Science
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Texas
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Large, public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 100-200k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Test scores, grades (unweighted GPA doesn't reflect it, but would be recalculated by college anyway with normal scale), ECs
[<em>] Weaknesses: Hell if I know
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No idea. Interest was definitely shown (did a moderately long visit). I guess the incoming class is just too big.
[/ul]General Comments: So I'm now at 2 / 2 waitlists for my private school applications (Rice and CMU). 2 to go...</p>

<p>wow, *** ^.</p>

<p>cone, that **** is ****ed up. I'm sorry, but I don't understand. They must have had some really amazing candidates...</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted CFA Architecture</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 34
[</em>] SAT II: Math IIC 770, Chem 750
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.4
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 25%
[li] Senior Year Course Load: 3AP's, 3 Slack</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Art Magazine (w/ Award), (Chess Club Leader), Newspaper Editor, Choir, and a ton of others.
[</em>] Athletics: Four years Varsity Alpine Skiing, 1 year soccer, 3 years tennis, 1 year Field Hockey Which i worte my essay about, and one of my apps was from a good friend, teacher and FH coach.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: None
[<em>] Summer Activities: Went to NZ one year, took Drawing One at college
[</em>] Essays: My essay for CMU wasn't very good, due to the fact that I finished it two minutes AFTER the app was due, and because I didnt realize until a few hours before that it had to be less than 1200 characters. But the content was strong, and was about my time playing field hockey and how I struggled to fit in with 13 girls, and how i was banned from the league the next year despite my protest.<br>
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: How would I know?, One matched my essay as I said above.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Again?
[<em>] Additional Rec: Yes, I had four in total.
[</em>] Interview: Excellent. I met my interviewer a few weeks later and gave him a personal tour of my high schools brand new 60000sqft art center, and i believe that both the building and my tour charmed him. </p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: on 03/26/09
[</em>] CMU college/s applied to: CFA
[<em>] Intended Major: architecture
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): NH
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Not rich, not poor.
[/ul][ b]Reflection*[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Test Scores, Private School, Interview.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Grades.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Maybe my test scores, maybe my interview. [/li][/ul]
General Comments:*
I'm glad to have gotten into CMU, and although it was a painful process, from the 1200 character essay, the twenty word max short response for architecture, the early due date, and the odd online, wave decisions, blank line (which i did not get), and random checking to see. I have never visited the school, and I doubt I will attend, but I do hope to see the person who interviewed me again. He was a very nice man. Still waiting on Cornell Architecture, i am looking forward to Tuesday :-P</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted MCS ("second" wave)</p>

<p>Would rather not post stats...but let me say that...
I WAS IN THE SECOND/THIRD/FOURTH WHATEVER WAVE that found out tonight.</p>

<p>So for 2014's and beyond.
Don't give up hope if you don't get yours the first day.
And don't let other's opinions make you feel worse about yourself.
Never lose hope. :)</p>