What is the CMU experience like???

2331clk
Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:27:09 +0000

I believe you’ll find schools that generate the most competition between students are those that send a lot to medical or law school, where gpa is very important. CMU isn’t one of them, at least not like, say, JHU pre-med where your class standing really is important. If you read CMU is competitive I’d take that to mean self-generated competitive, trying to do the best you can.

Social life is what you make it…there are fraternities and sororities if that’s your thing. Pitt is next door, that’s 20,000 more college age people in the area. Plus imho Pittsburgh’s a nice city (especially Oakland) with most of what you’d want without the hassles of a huge sprawling city.