<p>Ok guys I've gotten into Electrical and Computer Engineering at both Umich and CMU. So my question is which one? I hear that CMU is a great engineering school and their computer engineers are in demand, HOWEVER, I do not want to work one single day as an engineer. My future goal is to apply to law school or maybe business school ( I realize I will need to get a job for this first, but CMU does have a 5 year bs+mba program). So, I guess what matters more is what is the best overall university? (Since my goal is not to practice in my major's field). I'm not sure which one to take. (Money will be same because i'm OOS for Michigan)</p>
<p>definitely Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Do the Mellon.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input, but I must ask I know this site has a lot of people who say U.S. News is bs, but here are the following ranks that concern me..does any of this matter? of the two, who has overall better graduate admission rates?</p>
<p>overall rank:
cmu: 22
umich: 25</p>
<p>ECE rank:
umich:5
cmu: 10</p>
<p>schools I have yet to hear from:
cornell: 8
uiuc: 4
cal: 3
ga tech: 6</p>
<p>I also got into GA tech, UIUC but I don't think I can speak of those in the same breath as the above two. Again, I don't want to actually be an engineer, it's that from my research engineering is a great major if you are good at it since it is rather hard. I would appreciate any more input.</p>
<p>i also applied and they didn't give me an answer yet
online status check has my decision box blank and i'm kinda dying to find out</p>
<p>Stats riyam? I can probably give you an educated guess</p>
<p>Definitely Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>You think all ECE majors at Carnegie Mellon become engineers? Not the case at all. They are highly demanded by all kinds of recruiters. Look here:</p>
<p>Consultants, ibankers, analysts, management, sales, etc.</p>
<p>GPA : 3.9 UW, 4.3 W
Rank : 20/453
SAT : 670 V, 790 M, 680 W (2140 T)
SAT 2 : 740 Physics, 800 IIC
APs : physics b 5, statistics 5 - will take calc bc, chem, govt this year
EC : varsity cross country (4 years)/captain, varsity track and field(4 years)/captain, habitat for humanity work unit leader (2 years), some community service (apprx 150 hrs)</p>
<p>dunno about recs. i never read them. i asked my cross country/track coach/physics teacher and my chinese teacher (i'm the only non-chinese student in the class and i have the highest grade, i'm sure my teacher likes me)</p>
<p>i think essays were good. probably the best 3 i've ever written in my life.</p>
<p>Umich
Electrical Engineering $ 54,922 (24)
<a href="http://career.engin.umich.edu/MISalary_05.htm%5B/url%5D">http://career.engin.umich.edu/MISalary_05.htm</a></p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon ECE salary: 58,685 with high of 89,000.
<a href="http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/c.../salary/ECE.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/c.../salary/ECE.pdf</a></p>
<p>CMU's ECE program is also mixed in with the School of Computer Science. Many do double majors in computer science as it does not require much extra work (comparatively). The School of Computer Science boasts avg starting salaries in the median of 71k.</p>
<p>PS: Not even half of these students do engineering or programming. Many do graduate work or business/etc, and why shouldn't they? They are very highly demanded.</p>
<p>well i would go to cornell over CMU but nothing aside from that</p>
<p>Thanks for the info Accepted..</p>
<p>Riyam: your stats are almost identical to mine except I had 780 math 720 reading ...they don't count writing in sat but satII and mine was 800 so total (2300)</p>
<p>other than that identical stats basically</p>
<p>So you have a damn good chance</p>