OFFICIAL Class of 2015 CMU Decisions Thread

<p>Accepted H&SS (first choice) and waitlisted MCS (fine with me).</p>

<p>so would “not admitted” mean rejected?</p>

<p>my decision column is still blank…</p>

<p>^^^^refresh it! It did that to me too!</p>

<p>Waitlisted to Tepper School of Business.
SAT: 2230
ACT: 33
GPA: 95</p>

<p>not admitted…</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 750 CR 750 M 710 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 690 Math 1c, 720 Biology E.
[<em>]** GPA: 3.29 OMG?**
[</em>] Rank: Unranked
[<em>] Other stats: Nothing else, really.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Mediocre
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Mediocre
[<em>] Hook (if any): Hard of hearing/deaf student
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: MA
[<em>] School Type: Top public.
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: Female[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>

<p>My only extracurriculars:

  • Yearbook Editor-in-Chief
  • Varsity Science Olympiad
  • Varsity Policy Debate</p>

<p>Awards, etc

  • Internship as a research editor @ Harvard University
  • Semifinalist @ Dartmouth Debate
  • 2nd @ OCEAN Entrepreneur Competition @ MIT
  • Journalism award from Columbia University (can’t remember name…)
  • Numerous Policy Debate awards on national level
  • Numerous Science competition awards at state level
  • Siemens - Regionals/State
  • Debate camp, Journalism camp, eh. No particularly special summer activities otherwise.</p>

<p>General Comments:
Let’s see. They accepted me with two C-'s, a mediocre SAT Math 1c. I am not a URM and in fact, am Asian from a very competitive public high school. I really am surprised to get in, but I’m also pretty darn happy. </p>

<p>I think I was accepted because of my essay and extracurriculars. Those are the only two parts that stand out, really. Maybe the fact that I’m hard of hearing contributed. I mean, I didn’t even have an interview.</p>

<p>Did anyone get any financial aid notification? I can’t wait to get the big, fat packet in the mail. And does the financial aid package come with the package?</p>

<p>Accepted H&SS!
Quick stats since I don’t feel like posting much tonight:
34 ACT, rank 2/80, 4.0 GPA</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted CIT!</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2350 (/3 for each section)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800s for physics and mathII
[<em>] GPA: 3.9/4.3UW; 4.3/5W
[</em>] Rank: no idea
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: robotics.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: some range between average-good to fairly good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: most likely average (but uh no idea here)
[<em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: CT
[<em>] School Type: 1800+ public suburban
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[li] Gender: male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: uhhh robotics? first robotics competition with nationals-making team
General Comments: Wanted to get into SCS for their shiny building (okay, and for other reasons too; and I was waitlisted there) but still really excited!!! I really can’t decide between CMU and UCB, but so far CMU is on the heavier-ly weighted side. Well, I’ll know for sure in less than three days!</p>

<p>To those telling ‘blank’ people to look under decisions:</p>

<p>Some people have blanks. My best bet is that their decision mail hasn’t been sent out yet.</p>

<p>I know mine is completely blank, and I looked in the right places.</p>

<p>Accepted- CIT</p>

<p>Anyone know what kind of financial aid CMU gives?</p>

<p>Accepted to HSS.
33 ACT, top 2% of class.
:D</p>

<p>[ size=+1][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted MCS[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: 800 math 660 cr 640 writing
[ *] SAT IIs: 800 chem, 780 math 2
[ *] GPA:3.8 UW
[ *] Rank: top 10 %
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: good i think
[ *] Teacher Recs:ok
[ *] Counselor Rec:no clue
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: NY
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity: South asian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b] My supplemental essay was good i think
[ b]General Comments:[ /b] So happy I got in, Excited to get the mail tomorrow</p>

<p>Supernovamaniac, it seems that way. Every year, around 10% of the decisions sort of trickle out.</p>

<p>Like you said, there is definitely a blank line. I’m not missing it.</p>

<p>Admitted to h&ss for economics!! Yayyy!!!</p>

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

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 750 CR, 800 M, 800 W (2350), took 3 times.
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Chem, 800 Math II, 730 Bio E
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6 (our school does out of 100 so 91/100 unweighted, 94/100 weighted)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): No rank, somewhere slightly below 10% (11-12 or so)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 US History, 4 Biology, 5 Computer Science A, 5 Calculus AB, 5 Chemistry
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, Computerized Accoutning I, English Honors, AP Calculus BC, AP Economics (Micro + Macro), AP Physics C.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended.
[/ul]
Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): FIRST Robotics, won Regional Engineering Inspirational Award and Regional Chairman’s Award. Academic League, won first place. Environmental club.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 57 hours total.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Internship at UMDNJ (Rutgers)
[</em>] Essays: Wrote about Pokemon as my Common App essay, then wrote some generic stuff for the others.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Don’t get to see it.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Don’t get to see it.
[<em>] Additional Rec: From UMDNJ internship, don’t get to see it.
[</em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Electrical/Computer Engineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~150k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.
[/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: SAT.
[<em>] Weaknesses: Downward sloping GPA, I’m Asian.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Better people than me for ECE.
[/ul]
General Comments:
Dang… one of my top schools off the list… this sucks more than my waitlist at Stern.</p>

<p>ACCEPTED FOR ARCHITECTURE! Now I need to rethink UMich…</p>

<p>waitlisted to engineering school but accepted to arts&science.
will post stats later.</p>

<p>i dont feel like posting all my stats right now but in short</p>

<p>waitlisted CIT and SCS
2350 sat (790cr, 800m, 760w)
790 math II, 750 physics
3/600 (5.27/5.5 weighted)
ive been playing piano since i was 4, lots of musical/theater ec’s as well as a bunch of math/science clubs</p>

<p>really thought i had a good chance, pretty bummed right now</p>