<p>Can anybody tell me the admission rate for carnegie mellon for last year? Is it as selective as the ivies? Thanks.</p>
<p>38% of applicants admitted overall last year, but the admission rate varies by school within the university. So no, it is not as selective as the Ivies.</p>
<p>For… say the Computer Science or ECE schools, it could be considered about as selective as teh Ivys… =/ CS especially</p>
<p>CMU is also highly selective for its School of Drama and Fine Arts, which includes the School of Design.</p>
<p>Thus, in terms of ivy type of selectivity, the following areas are very tough to get into:</p>
<ol>
<li>Computer science</li>
<li>Electrical engineering. In fact, most engineering subjects</li>
<li>Drama</li>
<li>Fine arts and Design</li>
</ol>
<p>The rest of the programs are also tough but not as tough to get admitted to as the ivys.</p>
<p>As for the Design admissions only last year…about 300 applicants…40 admits.</p>
<p>the most selective schools at CMU last year:</p>
<p>College of Fine Arts 25% accepted
Computer Science 22%
Tepper (business) 21%</p>
<p>I should refine my post slightly. CMU is, overall, not as selective as the Ivies, though individual schools are.</p>
<p>at this point im not doing much to answer ur question, but as an interesting note, for one of the drama departments, about 180 people applied… and 8 were accepted.</p>
<p>i wanted to apply to Tepper, but 21%! Dang!</p>
<p>i am thinking about applying to tepper as a transfer. the percentages change from year to year so idk.</p>
<p>also remember that applicants are self selected. people only apply cs or tepper if they really want to do cs or business.</p>
<p>How about the College of Technology (Engineering)?</p>
<p>for engineering, ECE is almost as selective as CS is. I am not quite sure, but Chemical/Mechanical Engineering are a little less selective than ECE is, and Civil/Biology Engineering are even less selective (I think).</p>
<p>Here’s the link to CMU’s admission statistics for each school.</p>
<p><a href=“Home - Computing Services - Office of the CIO - Carnegie Mellon University”>Home - Computing Services - Office of the CIO - Carnegie Mellon University;
<p>As you can see, Tepper and SCS each only accept around 20%. However the average SAT and GPA score for SCS is much higher than any other school, so I think SCS is the toughest to get into given the quality of the applicants. Tepper’s acceptance rate may be low but their SAT and GPA score is similar to CIT’s.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>The admission rate last year for the Tepper School of Business was only 17 % . For the School of Computer Science (SCS), the admission rate was slightly higher at approximately 21 % (which is not bad at all considering it is the #1 or #2 CS program in the country according to most rankings). Surprisingly however, the admission rate for CIT (CMU’s School of Engineering, ranked #8 overall by US News & World Report) was a non-selective 43 %, which is probably way higher than any of CMU’s so-called “peer institutions”. I believe getting into ECE in particular must be much harder though, especially considering that CMU’s Computer Engineering program has been ranked among the nation’s top 4 for quite some time now. Note that CMU engineering students do not declare their majors until the end of the freshman year, but entry into certain departments like ECE may be restricted upon admission to CIT.</p>
<p>Bruno, my only point was you have to look at the quality of applicants as well as the admission rate. I would disagree that CIT’s admission rate is way higher than peer institutions. Out of private technical schools, only first-tier schools like Caltech and MIT have lower acceptance rate. CIT’s admission rate is similar to schools like Harvey Mudd and is lower than schools like Case Western. As for public schools, the admission rate can be misleading. A well-known school like Berkeley might have a much lower acceptance, but that is because they get many more applications from less qualified individuals, which is why their average stats (SATs and GPA) are lower than CMU’s or Harvey Mudd’s.</p>
<p>Note: MANY kids that apply to CMU are self-selecting applicants. The same goes for schools like UChicago or Cornell’s Engineering. A look at the acceptance rates for Carnegie Mellon’s MCS for example may lead you to believe that it is easy to get in but rank % and SAT range should be looked at instead. GPA is downgraded and certain classes are not counted so I do not believe that is reliable either.</p>
<p>Note: I see a lot of %'s thrown around and the correct acceptance rate for Tepper is 19.23% if you work out the math and 20% by the CMU link. This can be found at business.tepper.cmu.edu (click on Ugrad business and look at the stats).</p>
<p>Bachovchin: I must admit I didn’t check the numbers, but I doubt Stanford,
Cornell or Princeton (just to name a few private institutions besides Caltech and MIT) take in 40 % of their engineering applicants. Comparisons with Harvey Mudd or Case Western miss the point IMHO since those are not CMU’s “peer institutions” or, at least, CMU should not see them as “peer institutions”. CMU’s goal should be establishing itself as a first-tier institution among research universities, not only in CE/CS (where it already is), but also in other engineering specialties and even in the basic sciences (MCS majors). In that sense, CMU should aim at competing for students with MIT, not with Case Western. I know my opinion may sound unrealistic and pretentious, but, nonetheless, I strongly believe that should part of CMU’s strategic vision.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. This is what the business school and drama school have been doing (Newsweek noted Tepper’s overlap with Wharton in their “New Ivies” article and the drama/theatre kids are on par with Juilliard or at least Tisch). Info Systems had their best year last year since the '01 burst. Salaries are above 60k median/mean and 100% of INIS students got a job. Based on these results I think CMU should focus on liberal arts rather than more engineering or sciences.</p>
<p>CMU is what it is. Is it as good as of an engineering school as MIT, Caltech, or Stanford? No, of course it isn’t. But that doesn’t mean that it is not a good school nor that it is easy to get into. In fact I would say that it is harder to get into CIT than it is some of the colleges that were ranked ahead of it for engineering in Princeton Review (Georgia Tech, Illinois, Purdue).</p>
<p>And I also think there is nothing wrong with being on the same level as Harvey Mudd. Harvey Mudd might not be well known but it is a great school. As is stated on <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd</a>, “A third of the student body are National Merit Scholars, and about 40 percent of graduates go on to earn a Ph.D.the highest rate of any college or university in the nation”</p>