Current Upperclassman at Carnegie Mellon: ASK ME ANYTHING!

caz0743
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:29:43 +0000

@dragon5151draw ,@janu2481 My son was accepted to CMU for Chemistry and Music in 2019. Valedictorian of his class, perfect stats… zero merit aid. Full pay family. CMU would have cost us 75K+ a year. He did receive a very large merit scholarship from the large public university down the street and accepted it. Pitt and CMU collaborate on a ton of majors and research. And with A LOT of the medical based research projects it’s Pitt taking the lead. You can also cross register at any college in Pittsburgh, including CMU, because of the Pittsburgh Council of Higher Education Consortium. A great opportunity to take classes at 10 participating colleges. So my son took 2 classes at CMU at Pitt prices this year. (but in fact they were free because of his Pitt scholarship) These 2 classes happened to be full at Pitt when he registered so he cross-registered for them at CMU. If the 75K sticker price isn’t appealing to your parents perhaps you can go somewhere where you can get a good merit scholarship undergrad and try for a graduate assistant scholarship at CMU for your graduate studies. (if they still have them) My son will now have zero debt from medical school because of his undergraduate scholarship. Just an idea.