<p>As all applicants know, the “Where Am I in the Process” link has been our source of info. Hold onto that applicant ID a bit longer.</p>
<p>One you are admitted and if you decide to attend, you will submit a non-refundable $800 deposit (which is credited to your invoice for the fall). You can snail mail send a check, make the deposit online, or fax back the enrollment deposit form with a credit card # on the form you’ll receive by mail.
The date of deposit determines the order in which housing preferences are honored.</p>
<p>This site will have links to a ton of forms to submit across various dates May 1 through August 1.</p>
<p>And as I say every year (and current and former students chime in in agreement), the most important thing you should be doing right now through early May is studying for your AP exams-- you don’t want to repeat Calculus, Physics, etc if it can be avoided. Earn your 5s (yep 5s are needed for most credit-- a few 4s ). You wil regret it if you blew off your exams. The grades you earn in high school here on out are totally irrelevant-- even a few Cs isn’t going to matter. What does matter is earning 5s on your APs --you’ll want to earn the credit for a few reasons: 1) not to repeat classes (that’s just too boring) 2) you’ll want afew extra credits under your belt to have a lighter load in times when you have an extruciating weeder course to complete, 3) a double major or extra minors is easier with lots of core classes out of the way through AP credits, 4) if you have tons of AP credits, you can use your fourth year to complete a masters degree at CMU while on CMU undergraduate aid/tuition – there are several fifth year masters degree programs. This is easier to achieve if you have completed all the credit hours for your BS by the start of middle of your senior year. (yep that is a long way off–but good planning needed)</p>
<p>This may sound ridiculous - but does anyone ever take a lower physics class than what they placed into? A friend said her daughter did that at a different school and was glad to have a solid review before moving on.</p>
<p>The only students who “move on” are physics majors.
Everyone else in CIT needs only the the two intros, in SCS you need 4 science/engineering classes – your choice which – so if you got 1-2 physics done, you wouldn’t repeat these. In MCS, unless you’re a physics major, you only need the intros.</p>
<p>Many math majors and some scs and physics students give up their calc credit to retake a higher level entry point calc class-- but again, that’s by invitation only and you still need the 5 on BC.</p>
<p>Some Chem Eng majors might retake Chem if it’s been a few years (some take chem in soph or jnr years of hs)</p>
<p>You are free to retake anything-- but unless you’re a science major, there’s little reason to retake a science class since it’s only a core requirement without any further advanced science classes ahead in the curriculum.</p>
<p>COlbye,
This varies for each of the majors within CIT-- you should head to the CMU website and go to the curriculum guides for each major in CIT.</p>
<p>Calculus AP exam results are just one step in making a placement recommendation- for all students, a CMU placement test is given online in June/July.
You are of course free to enroll a step lower than your placement.</p>
<p>Again- you should go to the CMU CIT webpage and you can see the curriculum there for each major, including core requirements.
At minimum the initial two calculus classes are required – a placement test score and a AP score are needed to place out.</p>
<p>You will be given lots of information from your freshman advisor in May and June.</p>
<p>To guarantee you’ll get your first choice in housing.</p>
<p>If you pay within the first few days, very high likilihood you’re getting your first choice housing.</p>
<p>You can pay online at the NTIA button or fax it to Admissions.</p>
<p>For those of you needing to bargain for Financial Aid, start that process ASAP by submitting competing offers.</p>
<p>For those of you who had a serious change to financial circumstances, see the forms in the package at NTIA and submit that ASAP.
The sooner you submit, you will be at the top of the pile.
It will take up to 2 weeks to get a revised package- and that means the clock ticks on getting in the queue for your housing preferences.</p>
<p>Congrats to those admitted!
Share your results in the decision results thread please for those in the class of 2016.</p>