What is the workload like at Tepper?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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Thanks!

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bump

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The only thing I can say is that it must be really intense considering they have 3 suicides in four years across all departments

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^^ That’s completely unproductive to say. While these are tragic events, they are completely in-line with the suicide rate in the US population as a whole (approximately 10 per 100,000). CMU is not an anomaly.

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I go to Tepper.
Honestly, it’s not bad at all. My work-intensive classes have been in other departments. Granted, I’m only just finishing Freshman year.

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@trianglesqu Do you enjoy tepper so far:)?

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Yes. What are you looking to study?

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Im interested in finance and accounting.

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Join a club: TSF, IFA, etc.
I learned way more through TSF than I did through any of my classes.

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Do you think its a mistake I turned down Stern for Tepper?

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@yoyohi One thing you will learn in business school is the difference between a good/bad decision and a good/bad outcome. You can make a good decision and still have a bad outcome. Conversely, you can make a bad decision, get lucky, and still have a good outcome. As long as you made the decision with the best information available at the time of the decision and used the information accordingly, you have made a good decision no matter what might happen.

As for whether turning down Stern was a mistake, that is up for you to decide. No one knows what your thought process was in coming to that decision.

That said, assuming the decision is irreversible, you should focus on the future. Learn what you did right and what you did wrong in making that decision, so as to hopefully make better ones in the coming days. But don’t dwell on what might have happened. You will never know and spending too much time thinking about it will detract from the journey ahead. Good Luck at CMU.

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As to the original topic of this thread, the Tepper school takes a more quantitative approach to business, more like MIT Sloan or UChicago. If working with numbers comes easy to you, you should have no problems. You will, however, need good time management, particularly in your upper level course. Many courses involve group projects, requiring you to work in teams and to coordinate everyone’s schedules to get things done.