Why does CMU SCS have a low yield?

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<p>Why does SCS have a yield of [url=<a href=“Home - Computing Services - Office of the CIO - Carnegie Mellon University”>Home - Computing Services - Office of the CIO - Carnegie Mellon University]38%[/url</a>] if it’s one of the best CS schools in the country? I’d imagine it would be more sought after. In comparison threads, I see lots of people advocating CMU over Columbia, Penn and Cornell for Computer Science, but the yield doesn’t seem to demonstrate that. Or is it that most of the people who don’t accept CMU SCS end up at MIT or Stanford?</p>

<p>Would it be wise to pass up mid to lower Ivies for CS at CMU?</p>

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<p>I also want to hear some discussion about this. Especially if I end up getting into any of the “mid to lower ivies” later. Cuz I just looked up the 38% number and was surprised as well. It’s number one in the country for graduate CS!</p>

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<p>I’m not sure how they do the reporting, but I remember being accepted to more than one school within CMU. So, while I wound up becoming a freshman in CIT I wasn’t one in MCS, even though I was admitted to both. Personally, I don’t think there’s a whole lot of people admitted to SCS that then choose to instead start in other colleges, but it could be a source of a little bit lower numbers.</p>

<p>I think there’s also a lot of people that get turned off by the historical view of Pittsburgh when compared to cities like Boston and Palo Alto, as well as the perceptions of social scenes at the peer schools. Finally, CMU is fairly well known for only going all out on aid with students they really want, so I’m sure there’s a lot of students that don’t attend due to finances.</p>

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<p>scs loses like 100% of the time with cross-admits to MIT, and I’d imagine it’s up there with stanford as well</p>