<p>i'm trying to narrow down my list of what colleges to apply to.</p>
<p>so can you tell me 5 things i need to know before deciding whether or not to apply to carnegie? like the most important 5 things i'd need to "be" or "like" to be happy there? (i.e. big sports culture or liberal or outgoing or greek life, etc)</p>
<p>How many of these have you posted?</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon is a great school for students who already know what they want to be when they grow up - especially if that is something to do with art, architecture, drama, music, engineering or computer science. You can study other things at CMU, but that’s its strength. Sports are not big. Greek life exists, but is not a huge presence. You will work hard, in SCS and architecture probably harder than you have ever worked before even if you are brilliant. (Probably true of other disciplines as well, those are the ones I’m familiar with.) As far as I can tell politics are not discussed much.</p>
<p>i posted it on all the schools that i’m kinda interested but don’t know much about and don’t have the time to go through all the threads right now. :-P</p>
<p>and thanks for the description! do you know a lot about all these top schools or something?</p>
<p>My oldest is in college and my younger one is applying to colleges. There was virtually no overlap in the colleges that interested them, so I’ve seen a lot of different colleges. My older son is a junior at CMU in computer science.</p>
<p>here is an algorithm for learning about a school:
<p>does the male population dominate over the girls? On the website it said it’s close to half and half, but is it actually reflected in the overall campus FEEL? Am I making sense?</p>
<p>It all depends on your department. In the arts/humanities you’ll see a lot more females. Walk into CS, engineering, or physics and you’ll see quite the opposite.</p>
<p>(My year in Materials Science & Engineering was a bit of an outlier, though, since we had 10 girls and 7 guys!)</p>