No one ever talks about the possibility of being accepted to two or more of the colleges at CMU. Such possibilities give students with innate broad interests and capacities the freedom to craft multi-disciplinary academic lives, expanding their social opportunities and further broadening their passions.
The presence of the the arts at CMU makes it one where a STEM-minded kid knows he or she will not have to feel they can do “only” one thing, have only one interest. Loving the arts, and still having the opportunity to dabble (different than going in for the drama/theater department), and having that community of students as one’s contemporaries is a wonderful plus that CMU offers.
UChicago, Cornell and CMU…what wonderful choices.