CMU SCS and Tepper chances

CMUTSBKid
Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:07:26 +0000

SCS only attracts a certain kind of student; same with Tepper. If you look closer, the SCS students have higher SATs, ACTs, and GPAs coming out of high school.

SCS has a reputation for being ridiculous, and thus their applicants are the kind of kids willing to commit to study CS at CMU. Look at MIT’s acceptance rate compared to HYP. HYP schools are all much lower, but I wouldn’t say that any of them are “better” than MIT.

Tepper’s applicants are not quite as pedigreed. It doesn’t have the reputation to attract top talent like Wharton or Stern. The admissions committee is still selective enough to cherry pick whoever they want from this pool and maintains quite a low acceptance rate.

tl;dr: different types of kids apply to these programs, and the admissions pools for each school are actually quite varied.