<p>Why is Carnegie Mellon's acceptance rate so high? What is the college known for besides computer science and technology (is it worth it getting in there and studying anything else)? How is their financial aid, anyone have experience or facts? </p>
<p>Also what is UChicago's applicant pool like? How difficult is it to get into?</p>
<p>Those schools are self-selective.</p>
<p>I think UChicago scares people away with their application. It is no easier to get into than a mid or low-tier Ivy or another school in that cohort (i.e. Penn minus Wharton – which is more difficult, Cornell, Duke, etc.)</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon has one of the best business schools in the country. It stands next to Wharton and Notre Dame in that respect. </p>
<p>UChic is pretty hard to get into without having passed the prime requirements like awesome grades/ good SATs. Once you get over those hurdles, i believe thing are really in your favor. PS i hear UChic kids have NO FUN. Like ZEROO. I’ve heard this from a friend’s older brother and two parents on my friends who went there years ago. Looks like things haven’t changed much. XD </p>
<p>Anyways my point is that going to an amazing school doesnt mean that you shouldn’t have a life. Just look at Brown and MIT. MIT has the most parties of any school in Boston and i know this because my sister got invited to 3 MIT parties (including a shirtless foam party) on her first week there lol…</p>
<p>Didn’t know CM and Notre Dame were on par with Wharton. Whoa.</p>
<p>You may be reaching with that statement, though.</p>
<p>By “on per” i meant that they are all in the top 10 business schools in the country, Notre Dame being #2 and Wharton #3. Carnegie Mellon is actually rated 19th. </p>
<p>Here is the BusinessWeek link in case business is of interest to you: [The</a> Top Undergraduate Business Programs - BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/undergrad_bschool_2009/]The”>http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/undergrad_bschool_2009/)</p>
<p>lol shirtless foam party. When i go to UoC i will start my own shirtless foam parties!</p>
<p>wow, i would have figured that MIT students would have had very little fun. they’re all study people.</p>
<p>Notre Dame’s UG business program is ranked that high only in one poll (and its criteria is suspect). The program isn’t that great, certainly not on par with Wharton or even CM. US&WR ranked Wharton #1, CM #9, and didn’t rank ND in the top 10. My friend’s sister graduated in business from ND and was never able to get a good job. She’s now in law school.</p>
<p>Aside from the fact that Carnegie Mellon is self-selecting (probably the main reason), selectivity varies a lot across the different majors/schools. I don’t think any particular program is “bad,” but in terms of getting in, there is certainly a different between the super selective SCS (School of Computer Science) and a random major in HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences). I don’t say that to knock HSS - in fact, there are certain majors in HSS that are really well known in their field (I can’t remember which ones off the top of my head, since I’m in engineering, but maybe cognitive psych? Creative writing? Others will know better), but some programs are more selective than others. It might help to look at a breakdown of acceptance rates for different schools. None of them is going to have HYP level selectivity, but some are far, far more selective than others.</p>
<p>CMU receives far less applications that most other schools compared to their class sizes. Additionally, the yield rate is rather low because so many of the students who are accepted end up not going to the university. </p>
<p>Consider UC Berkeley. 2012-2013 they received over 60,000 applications and accepted around 13,000 of them. Compare that to Carnegie Mellon which received about 17,000 applications and accepted 4,000 of them. Only around 1,500 ended up enrolling. </p>
<p>Of course, the colleges within CMU differ in selectivity, ie. the school of computer science has a much lower acceptance rate compared to humanities and social science. I know of one major that only accepts five applicants per year.</p>
<p>Because CMU is an atypical college when it comes to applications, the acceptance rate is artificially inflated.</p>
<p>You didn’t need to bump up a 3 year old thread.</p>
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