From Deny to Defer status

mathmom
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:27:11 +0000

Carnegie Mellon is a little different from other places since each school within the school does their own admissions. So he might have different results elsewhere. As I recall when you apply regular you can apply to more than one school so you get the fun of writing an essay that applies to more than one possible major. My son refused to apply to anything but CS so he didn’t have that problem. Point being that each committee has different criteria and some of the schools are more selective than others, even though you can take the exact same math courses as part of Engineering, the Science school or CS majors. I think Blossom’s advice is spot on, don’t get too fixated on CMU, but write the essay about math and how it is multi-disciplinary.