<p>how is the social life at cmu? how are the people, specifically girls? what is the relationship scene? how is the surrounding area? is it difficult to achieve a high gpa? </p>
<p>all of this is specific to Tepper and the business school, thanks</p>
<p>There are no girls at CMU but lots of super bright and gorgeous young women.</p>
<p>Your post has been asked by others-- scroll down read the responses that have been here at least a dozen times this spring.</p>
<p>Social life is what you make it anywhere you attend college.
Visit and see how the fit feels to you.
Sleeping bag weekend in early november - highly recommend attending if you can find time / transportation.</p>
<p>are they actually gorgeous? i’ve heard otherwise (not saying this is true, ive just heard)</p>
<p>For the love of god, use the search function. It is really not difficult. Every question you are asking has been answered at least twenty times, probably more.</p>
<p>I would seriously kill to see a female applicant ask “how hot are the dudes at CMU?”… just once. But nope. It’s always the guys asking. Alas.</p>
<p>haha it’s because they know we so fineee :D</p>
<p>The women are all kinds of sexy. </p>
<p>Unfortunately there is a saying you should know about.</p>
<p>"Sex Kills…</p>
<p>so come to CMU and live forever" :(</p>
<p>sex isn’t hard to come by at cmu.</p>
<p>sex with attractive(assuming you set the bar high)/smart/funny/talented males/females is harder because well, that’s hard in the real world too.</p>
<p>at a tech driven school, it’s not going to get any easier</p>
<p>easy solution: date someone. free sex all day err day. and meaningful connections too, I guess, whatever</p>
<p>Yay Kate!
Yeah- what is it with high school boys who seem to think that one school has a different statistical representation of the general population than another. That just is illogical.<br>
I guess we might say these comments are racist? Afterall since 27% of the CMU population is Asian and 17% are international students- perhaps questions about the looks of CMU women are subtle forms of racism? There’s no other logical explanation for the persistent questioning about the beauty of CMU women.
Who the heck knows what you find attractive anyways-- all types of people exist in the population - CMU is a college campus like any other-- why would the women here be less attractive?
These comments make me sick and they are offensive to the intelligence of our campus.</p>
<p>BTW as I’ve posted before there’s another saying at CMU:
“odds are good but the goods are odd” referring to the men of CMU-- of which many rumors exist - lack of showering, acne, – a few bad cases doesn’t make for a campus.</p>
<p>Lax bro-- maybe you should go to Duke (if you don’t understand the reference, look it up-- you might find the culture more to your liking)</p>
<p>And btw-- there’s only club LAX at CMU.</p>
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<p>I think the motivations people have for going to college at CMU are fairly different than at, say, Cal State Chico.</p>
<p>I’m now at another tech school after spending four years at CMU, one with a much stronger reputation for nerdery, and I can say that an even higher percentage of the students here have poor hygene than CMU. About half the undergrads I TA have bad enough breath I want to keep a bottle of Scope with me at all times.</p>
<p>People choose colleges for different reasons and to Laxbrah44, a high percentage of attractive females is an important item on his list. Nothing whatsoever is wrong with that, but I do think that if that is one of your primary motivations for choosing a college, a highly ranked technical school may not be your best choice. That is not to say that there aren’t attracitve girls at these kinds of schools, but lets face it, the female population is smaller in numbers and these schools attract women who are serious about their academics and would most likely not be primping themselves to be attractive to a Lax Brah. Now if you are a computer genius who will be making billions after graduation, maybe! :)</p>
<p>sorry if im coming off as a tool but, is it relatively easy for someone in tepper to meet people in cfa and do they share any of the same classes?</p>
<p>mom2012, CMU does not randomly sample the general population when admitting students, so it is not at all illogical to hypothesize some attribute of the CMU population deviates from the statistical norm for the rest of society.</p>
<p>There are WAY more attractive people at my local state schools than there are at CMU.</p>
<p>I’m not sure who you are trying to preach to. If your goal is to reinforce the self-esteem of prospective/current CMU women, then I applaud that, and continue doing so.</p>
<p>However, to shut down the question and then retort with an attack on the men comes across as sour. The honest truth is that there are ugly people on both sides. Fraternities and sororities, art chicks and engineers. There are attractive individuals (i’m sure your daughter is lovely), but there are far more who are not.</p>
<p>These are people who probably would be attractive if they spent their free time and class time at the gym, like many college students in the general population do. However, workloads and crappy weather kick in to make for a student body that doesn’t put it’s best foot forward when it comes to appearance. </p>
<p>laxbrah, if you play lax and are jacked and whatnot sure, you’ll meet plenty of cfa people just fine. Tepper gives you a lot of free time that you can use to wander into studios/dorm rooms</p>
<p>you won’t have classes with them, but unless you are gollum there’s a good chance you’ll have friends from every school.</p>
<p>First I’ll answer LAxbrah-- a Tepper and CFA student can cross in a few places:
Freshman English for starters, CCM, Studcos, PE classes and the host of General Ed requirements. A tepper student could take art or history and meet a CFA student that way. Or mutual clubs of interest?</p>
<p>Actually BCO I disagree with: " CMU does not randomly sample the general population when admitting students, so it is not at all illogical to hypothesize some attribute of the CMU population deviates from the statistical norm for the rest of society."
BCO–First I don’t think I’m attacking men-- I’m just agreeing with Kate here-- it’s very weird that the question only surfaces from high school boys (hardly men).</p>
<p>Back to stats-- I do stand by my assertion- it’s illogical. There’s no correlation between choice of major or intelligence and whether a guy or gal has a pretty face? (Einstein is the exception – the hairdoo quite problematic). How is that even possible-- physical appearance is an attribute like height, shoe size ,etc-- it has no relationship to intelligence.
If perhaps the more direct question is if people are in shape-- OK, i’ll cut you some slack there-- people working very hard at academic may have less time to exercise regularly- but they also sleep less and eat less-- so it’s a balance. I don’t think CMU men or women are any more overweight than other college campuses. And I seriously truly honestly don’t understand why the question of the looks of CMU women continues to surface in this thread b/c of rumors or ratings about the student body on other websites.</p>
<p>I also disagree with Mumof2boys-- “primping” doesn’t make someone attractive. Washed hair is a start, regular showers and clean teeth-- but make-up isn’t a deal breaker on good looks. Again, I don’t see why good looks would be less likely at CMU, MIT, Stanford vs. Cal State-or Florida State-- women are women. We just have more asians and more internationals than the average college campus.</p>
<p>I don’t see why it’s always a guy raising the question.
No prospective female that I recall ever asked whether the guys at CMU were hot, shower or have social skills despite the rumors about cmu men on the same web pages offering a graded evaluation of the looks of cmu women.</p>
<p>Logically- I dont’ see why a tech school would have any less attractive women. Some things don’t corrrelate with intelligence or race-- namely your looks and the likelihood of certain diseases unrelated to diet or lifestyle choices.</p>
<p>P.S. to BCO - thanks - D will be lovely to someone who thinks she is lovely – not my call. And I’m sure BCO you’re nice looking too! </p>
<p>Looks truly come from within which is an age old adage-- with the billions of people on this planet- everyone is destined to find their soul mate eventually-- even with random stops along the way.</p>
<p>Oh, I definitely agree that there are a lot of ugly chicks at CMU. I gotta say you’re wrong on that one, mom2012. Objectively speaking, I’m incredibly average-looking, and I’m surprisingly content with that. Hasn’t stopped me from having an active dating/social life so far.</p>
<p>Although there is no correlation between attractiveness and intelligence, there is definitely a correlation between attractiveness and early academic drive. If you’re hot, you’ve got more distractions in high school. You get into a lifestyle of hanging out with other hot people, and together you all run off to live a fabulous hot-person life at Cal State San Jose. There are always those kids who are stunningly good looking -and- manage to somehow be valedictorians, of course, but I am incredibly suspicious of those people.</p>
<p>CK-- “A lot of ugly chicks”-- that’s ridiculous. I must be blind then, b/c I don’t see ugly people when I walk through campus or life in general. “ugly” is a strong word. average vs. hottie- much different. If hottie is defined as barbie in the latest fashion-- ok, I’ll own up – campus isn’t made up of barbies on the cut. But ugly-- that’s just unfairly harsh. And you are not average – that’s unfairly harsh too.</p>
<p>I guess one way to end this is to superficially check out the websites of the 5 sororities on the CMU campus or the 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 FB pages and see the thumb nails of all those in the FB grousp – that’s who will be on campus next year. Those faces don’t look ugly.
I dunno know-- I just don’t see ugly-- just an occasional chubbster–, a bunch of acne covered/scrawny guys, a bunch of sleep deprived people (yes the circles sometimes show as does the facial expression) and a WHOLE lot of Asian and Indian faces!</p>
<p>And it’s also a sterotype to assume all CFA women are gorgeous. That’s not likely to be any more true than saying all CS ladies are below average (of which there are fewer than 100 on campus)</p>
<p>I think the best way for the OP to really figure out if CMU is the place for him is to do an overnight. That is what sealed my son’s decision. It is perfectly natural for a young man to ask about the topic, but only he knows how important it is to him and only he can decide whether or not CMU is a fit for him academically and socially as well. </p>
<p>There is no doubt it is a great school academically, but it is not a fit socially for everyone. Good luck with your decision OP!</p>
<p>mum2boyz-- I agree wholeheartedly, and suggested in the first reply to this thread that the student and any student make a plan to visit campus-- especially sleeping bag weekends if at all possible.</p>
<p>It’s not just CMU-- but any school under consideration is really a matter of “fit”-- once we know the major is there, the academic level is match-- then it all boils down to whether you envision spending four years of your life enjoying academic, social and emotional growth in a given campus. Not even one weekend can determine that-- but you know if red flags go off.</p>
<p>Coming from the south…CMU kids dress and act sloppier than the average southern kid. What I do see is a complete disregard for dress style during weekdays–weekends may be different–but kids dress like they grabbed the first thing they found on the floor of their dorm room including stuff from their roomate that is two sizes smaller/bigger. Not really grungy…just sort of thrown on. My daughter-the-fashionista was struck by the absence of accessories, good makeup application, and designer handbags during orientation–not just among female students but even their mothers?!? She said that I looked like a CMU mother (which I am) and trust me this was not a compliment. So…who am I to judge attractiveness? …the kids look unpretentious but certainly not unattractive. We met a lot of the boys in my S’s dorm–even my daughter, using only superficial criteria, agreed that there were more cute than not…We saw a lot of the first year fine arts students…I remember thinking my S was lucky to be with so many good looking young women who didn’t simper and act silly but were intent on their art and schoolwork. Perhaps girls that look you straight in the eye and seem intent on success are unattractive in the eyes of some people…</p>
<p>See for yourself. Visit…if not check out the dance video made by CMU students (like a very fun mini-tour of CMU campus too!). …don’t tell me that CMU students aren’t cute and talented!</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - ‪What is the Creep?‬‏](<a href=“What is the Creep? - YouTube”>What is the Creep? - YouTube)</p>