<p>Scholarship/fin aid people, keep this in mind...if you're serious about going to CMU, they may sweeten your deal, and they're not secretive about this. </p>
<p>We did this, writing a letter of explanation and faxed them two aid offers from other schools (I know one was from JHU, I don't remember which other one we sent). They added $2500 scholarship, I believe it's called "Carnegie Mellon Scholarship". That $2500 has carried over each year for him including even this, his 5th year (he's CS but in a simultaneous masters program, still officially an undergrad). Even without it he prob would have gone to CMU.</p>
<p>2331clk, do the offers from other schools have to be in merit aid? or can you show them your finaid statement from like an ivy league school, say Yale, that doesn't give merit aid?</p>
<p>typist: You apply to the MBA/Engineering program the 3rd year. You have to have good grades, high GMAT scores, and there's a rigorous interview process. Supposedly only very very few students get in :-/</p>
<p>SAT I: 1490 (770M 720V)
SAT II: 800 IIc, 800 Phys, 800 Wr
GPA: 4.5 (or around there) weighted
Rank: 2/124
Courses: Full IB candidate including Further Math
Hooks: I live in Belgium, I write software for the Mac in my spare time, I write a column for a programming magazine
ECs: few, but the ones I have are pretty good
Essay: Good, but I can't remember what it was about.
Recs: glowing</p>
<p>I am so happy to hear this before starting next year. I love hearing of thing I want to strive for before I start - it gives me the ambition to proceed and fight for what I want. </p>
<p>athlonmj: May I ask, did you get this information off the internet? - if so, where?</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7U, 4.4W
SatI - 1400
SatII - 800/760/740/720
Rank - unranked school
Courses - All AP (6)
Hook - sent in a research paper done over the summer at NASA Goddard
Ec - not tooo many that I talked about...started chem tutoring sessions at my school, cd editor for the school magazine, intern at nasa...violin, etc
Essay - Decent, but I can't self-evaluate
Recs - never got a chance to read them, but the teachers I asked were very happy when I asked them, so...
Phone Call - yes</p>
<p>I don't think the aid offers have to include merit aid. S's Johns Hopkins package didn't include merit aid. I can't remember what other school we used. Esp from an ivy, CMU knows there aren't merit offers there, but I would think it might be helpful to include one that does include merit aid even if the school is not a direct CMU competitor. Actually I think we used BU (or GWU) exactly for that reason, because he received large merit awards from those 2. Anyway it did save us 12,500 so it was certainly worth it. </p>
<p>also, true about the combined MBA program, there might also be one w/Tepper and CS. It's a small program, I remember an editorial in the school paper at least a coulpe years ago complaining there were so few accepted into these programs, but some get in. Maybe it's different now. You have to be really outstanding because you will be in a program with people 4 or more years out of undergrad, with several years of practical experience.</p>
<p>athlonmj, yeah...i sent in the whole paper. probably got some weird looks from the adcom! the abstract was marked off with a post-it so hopefully they didnt sit through and read the whole thing.</p>
<p>i had extra copies of the paper left over from my presentation and i was sending the app in a flat rate envelope... ;)</p>
<p>Accepted MCS and/or H&SS (did anyone else get information on the Science and humananities scholars program?)</p>
<p>GPA 4.0 uw, 5.15 w
SAT 1470, act 33
sat II, 780/770/730/720/710'
no rank
ec, soccer, latin club, work,
no phone call, no scholarship info in letter</p>
<p>Accepted to CIT - I didn't know how I got in..probably becuase I'm female...</p>
<p>GPA 3.8 UW
no rank
SAT V 620, M 720
780 MathII, 690 Physics, 540 Writing
average EC, average essays
came to america 3.5 years ago...
someone called me this week to tell me the mail was sent out.</p>