<p>I was looking at the School of Design within Carnegie Mellon University. I was wondering how many applications that they receive and what their acceptance rate by admission was? How do I find this for other universities as well?</p>
<p>That is not always available on their websites or in their literature. You often can find it out from the school/dept. directly…in their info. sessions or by talking to personnel there. My child applied to BFA programs in Musical Theater and the acceptance rates into the programs were NOTHING like into the university itself but these were usually not in published literature but the schools/departments readily mentioned how many auditioned and how many they accepted. For my D’s field, there is a general knowledge that all the programs in it have an acceptance rate anywhere from about 3% to 10%, so there is not a huge variation but we learned the specifics for each one often on site or other ways. I think for the School of Design at CMU, you could ask the school directly. Afterall, their Drama department readily provides this data for the Drama program…auditions 1200, for 10 musical theater and 18 acting slots. If one of their schools gives that out, I imagine their other school will also be open about it. You can’t find that online, however.
Susan</p>
<p>Good question. I would like to see a list of those schools within particular universities that in effect have seperate admissions programs. For example, engineering at UC Berkeley but not at Stanford. Music at conservatories within colleges but also, I think, at music departments at many schools, at least for performance majors. School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. Several at Northwestern, I think.</p>
<p>The exact information you are looking for is on the CMU website in their “Factbook” I couldn’t get the 2005 factbook to download, but you can check out the 2004 one: <a href=“http://www.cmu.edu/ira/facts1.htm[/url]”>http://www.cmu.edu/ira/facts1.htm</a></p>
<p>The Wharton School at Penn comes to mind.</p>