<p>Bruno123's experience comfirmed but not guaranteed. Son, CMU, BSME '06 had good summer engineering experience and hence got good recs along with grades and recs from profs. Declined at 4 US schools for MS but accepted to Toronto on full scholarship + fellowship (they NEEDED a ME at his interdisciplinary institute of his major.) This surprised me, but perhaps supply and demand came into play in his declines from major engineering US grad schools but acceptance from T. </p>
<p>Son is attending MS program because the field he wants to make $ requires more training outside of his primary major. He does have a CMU dual major with the the second major in the field of study at T.</p>
<p>Sidebar: Many of his engineering mates, accepted jobs in the financial centers.</p>