Carnegie Mellon Class of 2028 Official Thread

Lots of waitlists. Huh.

More accurately, no non-waitlists. Maybe all accepts and rejects really did go out last Friday.

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Did you all get email with decision notification ?

No result here for Drama-Acting. Is anyone else waiting to hear from this department? I know several calls were made to accepted applicants but admissions said last week there were more to come.

I’m getting paranoid, what if they sent out waitlist letters in error?

Well to be fair, waitlist IS a decision. There are other students they want more but they want the options to change their mind later if it pleases them. In the last 2 years .5% got in off waitlist so really, it’s a rejection, just a soft rejection. I think the message is-- academically you are qualified but you didn’t have the special sauce we were looking for this year.

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Waitlisted engineering

I’m part of the deferred → waitlisted gang, I love waiting!

Last year ~25% of applicants were waitlisted. I’ll be super curious to see this year’s CDS for this and other schools because waitlisting seems to be RAMPANT this year. It certainly is in our house, sigh. I suspect with the uncertainty of FAFSA delays, they want a bigger insurance policy than usual.

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Waiting as well

If they have screwed up even more than what they have done until now, there’s all the more reason to choose another university where they practice what they preach. They haven’t been able to smoothly execute a decision deployment, which is disappointing for what is expected to be one of the best CS schools.

CMU’s priority waitlist is NON-BINDING as per previous posts. You juts have 72 hours to accept or decline after getting off iirc.

Yeah, they were either super evil and released all the acceptances and rejections last Friday and lied on the phone saying this batch will still have acceptances OR there was another error which would be funny af but not unexpected.

We don’t have a decision yet for architecture.

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I guess they made us wait to see the waitlist decision :joy:

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All the best then!

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Yeah tbh now I hate the school :slight_smile:

It’s OK. I hope they learnt something out of this year and hopefully do a better job going forward.

No decision here for Art. I don’t know of any art/design applicants that have gotten any updates!!

same here, waitlisted for CS