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<p>I don't know if you guys remember what the 2010-11 stats looked like, but to give you all an idea CIT's range increased from 1970-2230 to 2080-2310. A 100 point increase is a lot! Did the competition rise that much over the course of a year? Not going to lie but this tremendous increase is scores freaks me out.</p>
<p>I can post the past stats from other schools if anyone would like to compare.</p>
<p>Hey, can you post all the past stats? I’m just a bit curious.
But yes, college admissions in general have been getting more rigorous.</p>
<p>Yeah, and the overall admissions rate dropped from ~30% to ~21%. Damn. I just noticed that.</p>
<p>My theory is this: last year, CMU had a record sized freshman class. It was so enormous that freshmen were being housed in Morewood lounges until halfway through the year, being housed in random apartment complexes, and generally in ****ty housing situations overall. I don’t know if this is just a rumor, but my former roommate (a design major) said that some freshmen were asked to drop design because the class size was too big.</p>
<p>This year, CMU probably said ‘no thanks’ and admitted a much smaller number than usual to balance out the enormously large class of 2014. Of course, the students admitted are the best of the given pool, so the average stats also rise accordingly.</p>
<p>College R M Wr Rank GPA
CIT 630-720 710-790 630-720 5 3.72
CFA 600-690 610-710 610-690 19 3.50
H&SS 620-710 650-740 630-730 9 3.59
IS 600-700 670-750 620-710 10 3.57
MCS 630-730 710-790 650-740 5 3.71
SCS 670-750 750-800 670-760 5 3.79
Tepper 610-670 700-790 630-760 8 3.63</p>
<p>Yea, but 100 points for a college is an incredible increase!!! </p>
<p>Completelykate, I hope you’re right because it mean’s things would be more normal for this year’s admissions process. right?</p>
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<p>Undergraduate First-Year Admission Statistics 2011-2012
Enrollment as of September 1, 2011</p>
<p>College Applied Admitted Enrolled SAT-CR1 SAT-M1 SAT-WR1 Rank2 GPA </p>
<p>CIT 7,448 1,793 455 670-750 740-800 670-760 7% 3.75 </p>
<p>CFA 3,722 605 235 620-710 630-740 630-730 18% 3.51 </p>
<p>H&SS 4,114 1,180 241 660-750 670-770 680-760 10% 3.62 </p>
<p>IS 798 145 62 630-720 670-770 630-730 15% 3.57 </p>
<p>MCS 5,292 1,346 198 670-760 730-800 680-770 6% 3.72 </p>
<p>SCS 3,490 389 151 700-780 760-800 700-780 5% 3.82 </p>
<p>Tepper 3,162 435 90 660-740 760-800 670-770 7% 3.67 </p>
<p>BXA 76 76 26 680-750 690-770 690-770 7% 3.67</p>
<p>The acceptance rates also fell dramatically. It is now close to 10 % only for SCS for example. Maybe CMU is trying to go up in the college rankings like USN&WR by boosting selectivity.</p>
<p>Many times the admitted scores (of the lower tier top 25) tend to be higher - many times top students will use CMU (and others) as a somwhat “safety”. When the top students go elsewhere - like the top 10 schools - the “enrolled” students SAT’s are usually lower. I’d like to see the actual enrolled students statistics.</p>
<p>I still think the scores did go up but most likely by 20-30 points each section - not 50 points.</p>
<p>CMU is my son’s first choice - so I really don’t want the scores to go any higher :)</p>
<p>CMU is a bit like a “tale of two cities”. The overall acceptance rate is actually relatively high by US News Top 25 standards, but the acceptance rates at individual colleges within CMU, most notably SCS, are much lower. SCS admission stats for example are now approaching MIT levels. </p>
<p>I am not quite sure, but I suspect that one of the reasons why the overall acceptance rate is nonetheless falling may be that yields are generally rising across most CMU colleges and, therefore, they can admit fewer students and still keep the same target freshman class size. Since CMU relies more on tuition income than competing peer universities, it cannot drastically reduce the number of admitted freshmen.</p>
<p>I’m with completelykate - I’m c/o 2014, and they really overshot it for my year. In the beginning of the year, my “lounge” was used as a 5-person room until housing could be found for those students, and there were similar situations on other floors. Similarly, in my department (MechE), we are the largest class to have ever declared MechE. So, as completelykate said, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were trying to compensate for issues like those stemming from a large c/o 2014.</p>
<p>Some programs have still overshot, like Tepper… we have 90+ people as opposed to our normal 80. So our business program is going to become even more competitive…</p>
<p>…and I don’t think they even succeeded having a smaller class for 2015. As an additional anecdote, I’m SCS, and when one guy in my year visited campus, apparently they told him they were targeting around 130 people for CS (possibly because the previous year was larger than expected). </p>
<p>We have almost 160 people right now.</p>
<p>They told us that the incoming CIT class is the biggest it has ever been this year. O.o</p>