Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (2025-2026)

[misty smelt]

Yeah it seems like cmu really emphasize whether you have the scores or not

[hot seal]

hm ok

[hot seal]

u didnt self report?

[misty smelt]

Yeah my score was really low so I was scared

issssssss alright

[hot seal]

aww

[coarse hatch]

yes this is good to add

it's definitely an acquired taste, ever for the most diehard nerds

[cosmic crystal]

I mean you self report though if you want your score to be considered

You don’t need to officially send in scores through college board for it to be considered

[hot seal]

yea theyre saying self report

[misty smelt]

yeah it's self report

[quasi prawn]

carnEDGEie mellon university

[vague yoke]

🙏

[vague yoke]

wine

[hot seal]

what does this pray mean

[sharp rover]

is there a cmu 2030 server?

[stone shore]

Ye

[vague yoke]

Hope you get in

[hot seal]

ohh tyyy 🙏

[earnest jacinth]

i am very happy with cmu

although i think its a lot more work than other colleges

based on what i hear

[cedar turret]

my friends at other colleges get 0 work

vs im in the studio till 2am

[hot seal]

😭

[ocean garden]

Not at all

[ocean garden]

It feels normal to us because that's all we've experienced though 🙏

[thick quiver]

how yall balancing classes with clubs/resaerch tho

[astral thicket]

If you grad in 4 years it’s rather easy to balance

[ocean garden]

You just do lol

Again I don't think the workload is a lot but this is all I've seen

Though art students may have different experiences LOL

[thick quiver]

im talking cs lol

[ocean garden]

I am in CS

[gritty patrol]

not screwing yourself by taking too many hard classes lol

[gritty patrol]

Why are you up Spence

[flat heron]

is there no cmu bme

tf do i do if im bme major

[hot seal]

💀

[hot seal]

is there stats on accept vss reject

[coarse hatch]

BME is only double major

you double it with another major in college of engineering

[flat heron]

🪦 my app is cooked then

i don’t got ece activities..

[coarse hatch]

doesn't need to be ece, can be matsci, meche, or chemE too (i don't recommend chemE tho)

[ocean garden]

People typically do ChemE + BME additional major

[ocean garden]

Don't most bmes do ChemE as primary major?

[flat heron]

ima just do ece bro its ggs

carnegie mellon compouter 🥀

[coarse hatch]

personally ive seen a lot more matscieng with bme, and i've heard not great things about the chemE program

[ocean garden]

Oh okay

I mean my friend is in chemE and he likes it

Though not interested in BME

[coarse hatch]

what year are they, am curious

[ocean garden]

Freshman

Maybe not the best authority ig

[gritty patrol]

are they on fast track?

like how long do they expect to grad

[ocean garden]

4 I'm pretty sure

[gritty patrol]

probably haven't taken any of the chem e brutal classes then? 1st sem freshman

[ocean garden]

Yeah prob

[gritty patrol]

Hows your final year? Senioritis?

[coarse hatch]

uhhh i just finished a 60hr/wk fce sem, next sem better be the easiest thing i ever do in my life

[gritty patrol]

tf did 0you take. OS?

FCE

is capped at 25

[coarse hatch]

nono, i did 18620, 18622, 18623 + 2 geneds

[coarse hatch]

18622 fce says 23hrs/wk tho

[gritty patrol]

Yea but you can only press up to 25

so 23 means most ppl pressded 25+

[coarse hatch]

:)

[ocean garden]

Is that 3 technicals 😭

[coarse hatch]

im IC maxxing

[ocean garden]

What's IC

[gritty patrol]

also thats on you.

you took 3 phd level classes

[coarse hatch]

integrated circuits, basically making chips in silicon

[gritty patrol]

actually that might be 700+ maybe its masters level

[ocean garden]

Ohh

[coarse hatch]

its all good :)

[ocean garden]

I think 6xx is masters yeah

[ocean garden]

How was the chocolate class?

[gritty patrol]

well sure. After how much suffering

[coarse hatch]

pretty fun, they give you chocolate to sample every lecture

[gritty patrol]

you getitng better now?

[ocean garden]

Wait I saw a reel about this

Do you actually make it

[coarse hatch]

no i watched the person make it tho

i think im in the video somewhere

[ocean garden]

Oh okay

[coarse hatch]

yeah i should be

came home an immediately got sick so lmfao

[gritty patrol]

Woooo

[gritty patrol]

[coarse hatch]

yeah i mean its pretty cool to learn an extremely large amount of information on how chips are produced in such an extremely short period of time

definitely very cool to have an understanding of how a computer is made from the base silicon

was not easy, and I don't recommend, but good experience to see how far i can realistically push myself

[gritty patrol]

I highly recocmend pacing your classes

[coarse hatch]

yeah i agree

[earnest jacinth]

holy clutch

legendary late semester lock in

[gritty mirage]

is a personal growth journey fine for the. 3rd essay

[gritty mirage]

huge miyamura

😍😍😍

[gritty mirage]

the one about something that i want to share

i was gonna talk about how i lateen to the same song 30k times last year and the song profession kinda matches different points of my life

[gritty mirage]

herro

[hazy bramble]

am i cooked rd if two ppl in my school already got into ed for cs

😹😹😹😹

[hot seal]

uhh

am i cooked rd if i got deferred ed and more ppl in my school are applying rd for cs

[cedar turret]

nope

[cedar turret]

nope

[hot seal]

🙏

[gritty patrol]

Especially if your in bay

It looks like they just plonked entire classes of bay schools in Gates

[hazy bramble]

nah i’m dmv!

💀💀💀😝😝😝😝

[gritty mirage]

what should I talk about int he additional info section

liek growth or maybe liek a snippet of my life?

[cedar turret]

do not add anything unless there was no space in the app to do it, for example you have a learning disability that prevented you from taking or doing well

[gritty mirage]

no its a supp

the

[cedar turret]

oh

i thought u meant common app

pick a super interesting fun fact or a topic you love to talk about and write about it

a lot of folks did that

[gritty mirage]

i see

does it gotta be about me?

or can it be about naything

[gritty mirage]

wait can I talk about like an event in general?

or should I pick like a subject or niche interest

[boreal agate]

like if my website and research were a big part of my app can i put links to both or is that tacky? It said to put any "qualifications"..

Ngl I feel personally without that they dont have any real evidence I did anything (particularly for the website). but i have no clue if its a good idea or not, or if it will be interpreted wrongly 🤷‍♂️

And one paper from my research is still under review for the conference it was submitted to (So i linked the preprints on arxiv)

[gritty mirage]

icl if its a website

they should just be able to find the url

[boreal agate]

i mean its a personal website with my github projects and like 40 of my graphic designs

[gritty mirage]

oh

on me

[boreal agate]

My linkedin is the first that comes up for my name and it has the website too but im not going to bet on them searching for it

[gritty mirage]

fair enough

how i see it is they will see it and either a) beleive you on the spot no questiosn asked or b) be hesitant and dig for liek 5 minutes nad find it

so either way youre probably good

[boreal agate]

I think it gives me more credibility (I submitted my ea apps without any of this )

[gritty mirage]

where ea?

[boreal agate]

Even if they dont click it its the fact i was confident enough to add them

ig

[boreal agate]

Umd and stanford, and I applied to UCs
My research was at one of the UCs and I worked directly with a professor. I mentioned that and im not concerned about the verification at all

But no evidence of my website 😭

[gritty mirage]

md as in mn duluth or maryland

[boreal agate]

Maryland

[gritty mirage]

i se

[boreal agate]

Chudputer science

Its close to home for me

[gritty mirage]

chudputer science

😭

brutal bro

[boreal agate]

everyoe say its chopped

[gritty mirage]

would they reject you if you looked like jordan barrett

[boreal agate]

😭

I ain tryna get a job tho. Im tryna go to grad school and teach

but it still might be cooked 😔

[gritty mirage]

ngl sounds liek a dram but then i check my bank accoutn forf the crisp 200 dolla rpaycheck

[boreal agate]

its ok ill just do day trading to pay for Grad School

[gritty mirage]

LOL

aight bro

atp whats the point of grad school

[boreal agate]

going into research

More qualified for any education position

[gritty mirage]

i guess yeah

[boreal agate]

Idk what else

My dad got a job then left it then did grad school so idk

Now he teaches

Might be the method if im broke after college

[gritty mirage]

Consider your application as a whole. What do you personally want to emphasize about your application for the admission committee’s consideration? Highlight something that’s important to you or something you haven’t had a chance to share. Tell us, don’t show us (no websites please).

for this prompt what should I talk about

a specific moment in time that made me realzie something

a short personal growth trip?

or

[lavish jolt]

i just talked about one of my hobbies lol

i think anything will work as long as the essay lets aos know a little more about who you are

[fringe badge]

yea

[gritty mirage]

huge

[gritty mirage]

yo bro 46

youa re wasting an entire years worth of tuition in applications

are youc razy

[fringe badge]

not half a year, plus it’s worth it for anyone entering the most crucial four years of their life

Education is priceless

[lucid valve]

CMU explicitly says no links portfolios or websites in the application please

Unless it’s for like design/art or somethn like that I think

Idk

[thick quiver]

its about 4.5k

[stone shore]

Whoops I did not follow that

[gritty mirage]

is cmu all about collaboration?

is that a big thing i should bring to light in my app?

[lucid valve]

Id say so it’s a big part of what we do here ig

Lot of working together

Idk 😭

[boreal agate]

I get that. It's not anywhere in my supplemental essays. Common App in general asks if I have any additional 'qualifications/details" I'd like to share so I just put two links that verify the credibility of my claims there. it's not something I am doing specific to CMU. If they don't look at it, then they don't; but to me, having it there is better than not

[hot seal]

it says no links in the 3rd essay but i put some in common app add info

[boreal agate]

Yep

[lucid valve]

Ahh valid

[robust creek]

Pls CMU let me in rd

[hot seal]

fr

[coarse hatch]

man everyone seems confused by this 3rd supp

personal stories or realizations probably go better in other sections (in my opinion) but you can pretty much put whatever here

i ended up writing about a project idea that i had, and basically walked through how I'd make an immunocompromised plant for immunocompromised patients. i never ended up doing the project (might get to it this sem since ill have time) but the point was to illustrate my thought process and even moreso my curiosity

my situation was unique as i was in the hospital at the time of writing the essays. but you should be able to take similar ideas and apply these to your supps

consider how your application looks, and what impression you'd like to give to anyone reading your application, and use this supp to fill that out

[cosmic crystal]

2/3 of supps are why major and why college so

I think the last 1/3 is anything a branch of ur commapp essay didn’t is good?

Like if personal essay was about community, the anything supp can be about intellectual vitality

Idk that’s what I’m thinking

[gritty mirage]

why would you make an immunocomprimised plant

i cant lie that doesnt make sense

[hot seal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1247711899508801567.webp?size=48&name=sully~17

[coarse hatch]

you cant bring plants or soil into hospital rooms for immunocompromised patients. the wording is kind of strange, the plant basically needs to be grown in a sterile way, which makes it kind of immunocompromised in a way

[gritty mirage]

ohhh

[gritty patrol]

As in at the uni? Or in chat

First one yes but not as much as the other way round

Since Pitt has better parties/ life etc (practically everything afaik except Student org funding) People generally prefer to walk to Pitt

[flat heron]

how easy is it to switch majors at cmu?

(i.e. bio to mechE)

[hard jay]

I'm pretty sure it depends personally I haven't been through the process, but generally it's kinda hard to switch between schools like for bio to mechE it's MCS to CIT

Within college it is relatively easy

[flat heron]

o ok, its cuz i got hella bioE ec's but theres no major for that, i wanna do the 2nd major thing for it but in order to get in bio would make more sense with my app

[hard jay]

you can also take an additional major

that might work

it's easy to get an additional major in any school even if it's not urs

[flat heron]

so bio + biomed eng?

[hard jay]

im not familiar with our majors but yeah if that's a second major

you can do that

Ur primary just has to be in ur college

then you can add wtv u want lmao

[flat heron]

dangg im torn

cuz i rlly wanna study engineering

but i know im not getting in cuz all my ecs are bme

technically computational bio is best but thats in the school of CS 💔 i am not getting into cmu cs

[hard jay]

oh rip

hey u can take a comp bio additional

you learn nearly just as much

like evidently an additional is pretty much the primary but u don't got the school's gen eds

yeah liek looking at the primary versus the additional ur just losing out on some electives which i mean nothing is stopping u from just taking extra electives lmao

[desert agate]

i wanna do electrical engineering but i go to a tech school so i was never able to do a physics or foreign language class

am i cooked?

[gritty mirage]

it seems that cmu has a focus on collaboration. Should i talk about collaboration in multipel supps, or use another supp for a different value that carngie has

[coarse hatch]

it used to be harder i believe, i know one of the first transfers from mcs (physics) into college of engineering (ece) that happened in a few years. the year after there were more and i know others have transferred from tepper business as well, it should be getting marginally easier

intracollege is still an order of magnitude easier, however specifically it's getting harder for other majors within college of engineering to switch into ece

[coarse hatch]

no physics is worrying, do you have anything that could be counted as replacing that?

[desert agate]

I’ve been in an electronics program at a tech school for the last two years so I’ve been doing basically intro to electronics stuff and I have college credits from that

I’m also planning on doing physics as a dual enrollment class this coming semester

alongside trig and stats

[coarse hatch]

this is a good idea

yeah I'm not sure how much foreign language will matter, but if you don't have physics somewhere on the transcripts you'd likely be cooked

[desert agate]

I technically have half a year of foreign language from 9th grade

I think I could explain why I don’t have all the required courses tho

I go to my tech school half the day so I only have like 5 classes on a regular day. cause of my district having a lot of required classes I don’t really get to do any electives or extra sciences/maths at my main school

For my sophomore I literally have six classes on my transcript lol

[hot seal]

✊

[violet hatch]

yo

[sick tinsel]

Yo twin

[gritty patrol]

👀

[robust creek]

jsdflksdjfksldjfklds

AHHHH

[hot seal]

LMFAO

bro got retriggered

[robust creek]

fr bro these RD apps also not treating me well

[hot seal]

same bro same

[ocean garden]

There's always a chance!

You should apply

[ocean garden]

I put my diversity essay 💀

(I am not diverse at all relative to the CMU population)

[lethal pike]

do they not admit by major in SCS

why is HCI in scs im so cooked

[lavish jolt]

i also applied to hci 😔

[stone shore]

Ur diverse compared to the relative scs population

At least bro is not a bay area Asian

[ocean garden]

No

Everyone enters as SCS Undeclared

[ocean garden]

Lowk yeah

That's just cuz I'm from Florida though 💀

[stone shore]

Rip

I'm so sorry for your unfortunate upbringing in Florida

[ocean garden]

I can go outside without wearing 5 gazillion layers of clothes 🙏

[robust creek]

im from seattle my geographic diversity is cooked

[lethal pike]

so as an hci major im as cooked as cs majors

[robust creek]

🐶

[ocean garden]

Exactly

You don't declare major until sophomore year

I'm technically undeclared rn

[stone shore]

*freshman second sem

bro was not paying attention during FIC smh

[ocean garden]

It goes into effect sophomore year though 😔

[stone shore]

fair enough

I did not have neither

nope

[ocean garden]

I never did comp math and I am usaco silver

[lethal pike]

ic

[stone shore]

🤝

silver shitters unite

[lethal pike]

were ur ecs cracked

[ocean garden]

Idk

[lethal pike]

hmm

[stone shore]

eh no idea

[ocean garden]

You can't really predict college apps lol

There's so many factors

[lethal pike]

hmm

[ocean garden]

And many don't even depend on you

[lethal pike]

but competing with scs kids

[ocean garden]

It's just what the school wants at the moment

[lethal pike]

is everyone very cracked there

[stone shore]

for example I wrote the most dogshit essays known to man 😭

[lethal pike]

yea

[ocean garden]

It's hard to say

I also don't ask random people for their college application 😭 🙏

[lethal pike]

fair

[ocean garden]

People do seem very passionate though

[lethal pike]

define passionate

[ocean garden]

They really like what they do

And that thing varies a lot

But that seems consistent across CMU

[lethal pike]

ah ok

[fringe badge]

Same

One of my essays was lowkey controversial 🗿

[gritty mirage]

does cmu admit for major?

[fringe badge]

School

[ocean garden]

Except CIT I think

And CFA?

[gritty mirage]

damn

is ca grouped with engineering

cs

[ocean garden]

No, it's its own school

[gritty mirage]

bless

is cmu engineering or cs more comp

[ocean garden]

Idk less popular engineering majors def less comp than cs though

[lethal pike]

cs definitely

[gritty mirage]

massive

[lethal pike]

id say cs is more competitive than the most popular engineering majors such as ece

[gritty mirage]

im applying engineering

😄

chem

oh

im applyincv he/mech

chem/mech

[lethal pike]

nice

[gritty mirage]

!

[lethal pike]

i mean eng is comp but not as

lesser than cs for sure

[cedar turret]

and you go to cmu?

no one in my dept, dorm floor, or people i’ve met in general live in florida

except me

[fringe badge]

https://tenor.com/view/dexter-james-doakes-surprise-mf-can't-prove-it-gif-7408854170742055240

[novel rose]

Does CMU have any sort of maker portfolio thing for SCS applicants?

[coarse hatch]

engineering is more comp, cs is theory

oh wait not what you meant by comp

cs is definitely more competitive

[coarse hatch]

don't believe so, the admission is much more based on grades, ecs, and test scores

[novel rose]

lmaoo

[gritty mirage]

LFMAOOOO

you good no worrries

[ocean garden]

Yeah

[ocean garden]

LOL

I can count the number of people I know from Florida on one hand

[violet hatch]

My friend told me the internal transfer from MCS to SCS isnt super difficult as long as my gpa is good enough

[coarse hatch]

yeah definitely not as difficult as direct entry. your gpa within CS classes before your transfer needs to basically be perfect tho

[violet hatch]

If Im usaco platinum do you think i should apply directly to SCS?

My friend at SCS told me i should apply to MCS for physics first if i want to maximize my odds of getting admitted

[coarse hatch]

isn't there a section on the app to select three preferences for admission?

[violet hatch]

It only asked me if i wanted consideration for fine arts lmao

[coarse hatch]

huh i guess they've changed it

[violet hatch]

Did u apply directly to cmu for ece

[coarse hatch]

yup

[violet hatch]

Is ece within CIT?

[coarse hatch]

for mcs -> scs transfer you do have to do basically a years worth of CS courses and maintain good grades in those courses + generally and then transfer might be ok

[coarse hatch]

yeh

[violet hatch]

That sounds pretty ez

[coarse hatch]

just don't fuck it up

[violet hatch]

Is it bad if my school has a complete different curriculum than the ap

And i cant get cred for csa

[coarse hatch]

thats annoying because your credits will likely not transfer

you'll have to either test out of stuff and take harder courses later to make up for it, or redo a bunch of beginner content

its really annoying, none of my credits could transfer so i had to test out of a bunch of stuff

[violet hatch]

is it cpp or java??

[coarse hatch]

the test out thing is in java, but its not super different from concepts you'd learn in a cpp class

[violet hatch]

Oh

[coarse hatch]

intro courses for programming here are in python and C

[violet hatch]

So i just have to get a 4.0 in the cs courses my freshman year

And im basically set for the internal transfer

[coarse hatch]

Non-SCS students

CMU students in majors outside of SCS can apply for transfer into the Computer Science major or a dual degree in Computer Science. Students considering a transfer or dual degree are expected to earn at least a 3.6 QPA in 15-122, 15-150, 15-210, 15-213, 15-251 and 21-127, and have an overall 3.0 QPA.

from the website

[violet hatch]

But it’s much harder to get a 3.6 in college right

[coarse hatch]

usaco plat in what field?

[violet hatch]

Compared to hs

[violet hatch]

Language?

Cpp

[coarse hatch]

oh ic i am dumb

just seeing how much that knowledge would apply to these classes

[violet hatch]

It’s basically algorithms

Dp, heaps, binary tree etc etc

[coarse hatch]

15-122 isn't too bad, standard intro to C with some DS and algo, 15150 is functional programming (weird inbetween of theory and fp basics), 15-213 is intro to systems (not too hard just some basic interaction with low level C and OS fundamentals), 21-127 (intro to proof based mathematics, 21-128 is also an option that is more rigorous and may be more interesting if you already have experience here), 15-251 is ideas in theoretical computation (extremely math heavy understanding of the reductions, complexity, different ideal computation models), 15-210 is basically advanced algorithms and algorithmic complexity study (this is an in a functional programming language which makes it hard to write, but easy to analyze complexity)

usually people find 15-251 or 15-210 the hardest, but this depends on the person

[violet hatch]

So i need the credit for all of those courses?

6 cs creds

[coarse hatch]

yeah 3.6 average in all of those

[violet hatch]

How long will it take for me to finish all of them?

A year?

[coarse hatch]

i think mcs and cs take ~5 classes a sem with 2-4 being technical

[sick tinsel]

im ngl if i dont get in cmu, imma apply for a transfer all 4 years

[violet hatch]

So like for freshman and sophomore year ill prob stay in MCS then junior year i can switch out to SCS

[coarse hatch]

yeah thats usually the path that people take

[violet hatch]

What if I fail to get that GPA?

Do i have to stay in MCS?

[coarse hatch]

you can transfer to something different still i believe, but idk about those transfer requirements

[violet hatch]

I like physics but im only applying as that because i fit the major very well and its less comp

Like cs/meche is prob the most direct alignment w my profile

Most of my schools im applying as a physics major and i regret applying directly to cornell engineering ed cuz i got deferred

[coarse hatch]

i know people who transferred from physics to ECE but they did that super early on. if they didn't do it as early graduating on time may not have been possible

[violet hatch]

So they basically came into CMU knowing they would switch out to ECE

[coarse hatch]

not sure if that was their plan, i think they looked at the curriculum during/after the first sem and wanted to switch

[violet hatch]

What about internships?

If I want a swe internship won’t i be at a disadvantage?

[coarse hatch]

probably to some degree, physics specifically is in a weird spot

[violet hatch]

Should i try to get a quant internship then?

Because physics aligns w quant pretty well

And i know cmu feeds into those quant firms pretty well

[coarse hatch]

i think quant is more selective, i've heard that they focus much more towards the CS majors, with some ECEs getting hired for fpga stuff

quant is weird tho

[violet hatch]

Yeah quant is def more selective

[coarse hatch]

if you're good, they'll want you

[violet hatch]

I really want uchicago because they’re super flexible w major declaration and stuff

[ocean garden]

CS students usually take 15151 (equivalent to 21128) unless it's not available

[coarse hatch]

yeah but they're asking about the mcs to cs path

[violet hatch]

The SCS kids def get priority

[ocean garden]

Ohh okay

Isn't there a giant Google doc about that lmao

Lemme find it

[coarse hatch]

oh i have no idea

[violet hatch]

Im trying to play it safe because i know that MCS is def way less competitive considering my fit+applicant pool

And i want to increase my odds of actually getting admitted to cmu

[ocean garden]

@coarse hatch did you apply ED?

Wait wrong ping

Mb

@violet hatch

[violet hatch]

I got deferred ed to cornell engineering

[ocean garden]

You haven't applied to cmu then?

[violet hatch]

No first time

About to submit my app tmr tho

[ocean garden]

Just apply to SCS then

[violet hatch]

But i have to re-do my why major essay and i feel like my major essay for physics is really good

[ocean garden]

I don't think it's worth it to apply mcs if you're just gonna transfer to SCS

[violet hatch]

Really

The admit rate for scs is like 6%

[ocean garden]

You can frame it as computational science

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BZzWfMTh7glChR1c_DbKkT3dSMDqK5pLBU2cwgLBByI/edit?usp=drivesdk

[ocean garden]

Transferring to SCS is not a good experience at all from what I've heard

[violet hatch]

My friend at SCS told me he knows hella people who did it tho

[violet hatch]

Dang

[coarse hatch]

yeah like its sucks beans to do

[ocean garden]

I think you basically have to speedrun the whole CS core and do much better than the average SCS student in it

[violet hatch]

But sansk you have to understand that im basically risking my chances of admissions to CMU by applying to SCS

[ocean garden]

And you won't have any reservations for classes or anyone to advise you

[violet hatch]

What about from CMU MCS TO CIT?

[ocean garden]

I'd read this

[coarse hatch]

this is probably more annoying tbh

[violet hatch]

But I personally feel like the only reason I would go to cmu is for their cs program like I would hate to stay as a physics major

[ocean garden]

Then don't apply for physics 😭

It's really hard to transfer

[violet hatch]

As much as i like physics the job market is absolutely cooked for phys

[coarse hatch]

CIT is going through some restructuring and transfering to cit is possible but you're advisors will be as annoying as possible about it

also if you do it late, you're not going to grad on time

or take any of the actually good courses in the majors

[ocean garden]

Transferring within CIT is annoying lol

So many CIT people are tryna transfer to ECE

[coarse hatch]

yeah this is getting locked down

[ocean garden]

Oh yeah that's the case of SCS too

[violet hatch]

Idm doing an extra year of college tbf

[coarse hatch]

like if you want to get the most out of the degree you have to direct apply

bro shits expensive

[violet hatch]

That is true

[ocean garden]

That's 90k more 💔

[coarse hatch]

generally people want to get out early with transferred credits

[violet hatch]

Cant i test out of some of those courses tho?

[ocean garden]

Not really lol

[coarse hatch]

you'll have to take other classes to cover for those units if test out. and you can only test out of like 15-112

[ocean garden]

In math, there is an exam but it's usually just to get into a harder class

If you wanna actually skip like 15151 or smth

There's only like 2 or 3 people who do that

[violet hatch]

Ill probably choose a school where doing an internal transfer is the most streamline

Like uchicago is currently #1 on my list because they dont have specific “colleges” within the school

[coarse hatch]

like i'd only do this path if you want CMU to be more a backup

[ocean garden]

If you actually wanna go to cmu, apply SCS

[violet hatch]

I wouldnt call CMU a backup but it’s def not my top 3 choice

[coarse hatch]

yeah

[ocean garden]

You're not doomed

[violet hatch]

I would prob choose cmu over public flagships tho

[ocean garden]

A lot of college apps is based on fit

[violet hatch]

I have a pretty big olympiad background but at the same time SCS is just too competitive

I really dont wanna risk yfm

MCS is ~20% and SCS is ~6%

And the applicant pool for SCS is prob even more cracked

[ocean garden]

Going in with a major you don't want to do expecting to transfer to SCS is already a big risk

[violet hatch]

Ill apply to cmu as a backup

Cmu scs is way too risky

Mcs is the most realistic path for me

[ocean garden]

If it's a backup, what's the harm in not doing SCS

[ocean garden]

Did you read this document

[violet hatch]

I skimmed it yeah

[violet hatch]

Well mcs is more of a backup because the admit rate is pretty high

I wouldnt call scs a backup at all

Getting into cmu for scs is basically getting into an ivy rd

I’m applying to 25 schools

[coarse hatch]

ngl use some other school as your backup

[ocean garden]

College apps have entropy in them

I know plenty of people who didn't get into Georgia tech but got into cmu scs

[violet hatch]

But it’s also super random because i literally know someone who got into cornell RD but not CMU scs ed

[coarse hatch]

with usaco and olympiad stuff you already make a pretty good candidate, cmu loves yall

[ocean garden]

Also lowk physics isn't even really a cs-adjacent major

[violet hatch]

I have a pretty good phys oly background

[ocean garden]

Most people ik who thought SCS would be too hard go into like ece, math, statml, etc

[ocean garden]

I don't think Cornell and cmu SCS are that different in how competitive they are

[ocean garden]

^^^

[coarse hatch]

your likely to have plenty of other backups, just aim high for scs ngl

[violet hatch]

After getting deferred from cornell engineering i really dont want to risk applying straight for the #1 major

Like i felt distraught for a week after that

[coarse hatch]

frankly its not a risk, more an opportunity

[violet hatch]

From what I have heard, the transfer process is hard but still very possible tho

[ocean garden]

I got rejected from Cornell bro and I didn't even apply engineering 😭

[violet hatch]

It’s fine bro

[ocean garden]

Though my essays showed that I hated Cornell lowk

[violet hatch]

My college counselor convinced me that I should apply as an planetary science major/ physics for alls chools

[coarse hatch]

what

are they actively trying to make you fail

[ocean garden]

Most people give up on transferring lol

[violet hatch]

Dang

[violet hatch]

I said no to planetary science because i dont fit that at all but

There is a pretty good alignment w physics

Usa physics olympiad and other research that aligns w physics

[ocean garden]

I had meteorology research as my #1 ec but didn't apply to meteorology 💔

[violet hatch]

Why not

[ocean garden]

Because I wanted to do CS lol

[violet hatch]

U applied as a cs major for all schools?

[ocean garden]

Yeah

[violet hatch]

Dang

Balls of steel

[coarse hatch]

yeah pretty much all my ecs were random CS things, but i applied ece regardless

[violet hatch]

Unlike you guys

Im very scared of this entire process

[ocean garden]

I think I had like 1 or 2 cs ecs

[violet hatch]

And i have nightmares of getting rejected everywhere

[ocean garden]

You'll be fine just apply to what you actually wanna do

Don't worry about the outcome too much

[violet hatch]

Idm being a physics major but ill never find a job lmao

[coarse hatch]

i think you're being a little too risk averse

[ocean garden]

If you're good at olys, you'll prob be fine wherever you go too

[gritty mirage]

what is ece

electrical engineering?

[errant cedar]

hi guys i was wondering if internal transfer from cmu dietrich to mcs is hard

[gritty patrol]

Where in MCS exactly?

[gritty patrol]

Electrical and computer engineering

[errant cedar]

math

[gritty mirage]

i see

[gritty patrol]

Is Dietrich from IS?

[errant cedar]

economics

[gritty patrol]

Econ is in tepper?

[errant cedar]

economics is in dietrich.

[gritty patrol]

http://coursecatalog.web.cmu.edu/schools-colleges/tepper/undergraduateeconomicsprogram/#bsineconomicstextcontainer

Shouldn’t be easy but also not impossible regardless

[stone shore]

rip wasn't there like a bum 800 word essay

[vernal sparrow]

650 essay for cas

i got deferred 🙃

[stone shore]

bum school bro

who makes you write a 650 word essay

[vernal sparrow]

fr. and its a "why us" one too

they need a bunch of glaze

[ocean garden]

I don't even remember

[violet hatch]

cmu has been submitted

🤞

[lethal pike]

i hate that essay

why r they telling us to write a second commonapp essay

[narrow gale]

Can someone help me decide between Discrete Math and Logic (Mathematical Sciences specialization, in the College of Science) or Logic and Computation (Philosophy specialization, Dietrich)?

Pros for Discrete Math and Logic:
-More depth electives in math, as far as I can tell.
-Harder math courses, if I'm understanding correctly
-Mathematical Sciences probably looks better on a resume
-Not sure how gen-eds work but I'm only interested in very specific humanities (philosophy and linguistics) so College of Science might be a better fit?

Pros for Logic and Computation:
-I do like philosophy and linguistics a lot tho and want to minor in linguistics, so Dietrich might be a better fit?
-Admit rate higher

[gritty mirage]

i cant lie bro from how I see it 4>2

[narrow gale]

i am completely unsure about 3 of the 4 points, they are pure speculation and i am asking for someone to confirm/deny if they are true

[gritty mirage]

if you like philosophy just do the philosophy ones

[narrow gale]

so logic and computation?

[gritty mirage]

yeah

[narrow gale]

aight thanks

[gritty mirage]

youlll still probably have a lot of math courses that intrue you

intrigue

[ocean garden]

Are you at CMU yet 💀

[vernal sparrow]

i assume not, because "admit rate higher" is a factor

[ocean garden]

Ohh they're asking what to apply to

I thought it was minor

[narrow gale]

no

but I need to apply to a college/department

[ocean garden]

Are you more interested in philosophy or math

You can take the philosophy courses as a math major too btw

Dietrich courses are basically open to everyone

[narrow gale]

so i'm operating off assumptions here but I'm more interested in the other stuff the department of philosophy has to offer (that being linguistics, formal logic stuff, category theory) and less interested in "pure" philosophy (ethics and such) but still somewhat interested.
when it comes to math i'm mostly only interested in discrete math and stuff that intersects with theoretical cs and/or philosophy (i.e. logic, automata, data structures, category theory, game theory etc) and not too interested in higher pure math beyond that (i.e. analysis).

my main concerns are to do with Dietrich's gen ed compared to College of Science, acceptance rates, and how the degree will look on a resume

[ocean garden]

I think you should still do math

[narrow gale]

makes sense tbh

thanks

[ocean garden]

Like I don't think many people refer to category theory as a philosophy course even though it's in that department

And plenty of math majors take category tjeory

[narrow gale]

yea i suppose i could just apply college of science and consider a linguistics minor

[lavish jolt]

submitted my app

[lethal pike]

hi guys

[dull meteor]

Should you only submit 2 letters of rec to CMU

[lethal pike]

any tips for essay 3

[dull meteor]

Because they only read 2 right?

[lethal pike]

?

[lethal pike]

yes

[dull meteor]

they won't read the third?

[lethal pike]

there is no harm in sending if u have one tho?

[dull meteor]

even though common app allows it?

[lethal pike]

they wont

they said

[dull meteor]

because i have one better rec

so yeah

[lethal pike]

they will not consider for application

they might read it

[dull meteor]

i dont want them to spend time

[lethal pike]

mostly not

[dull meteor]

on the other rec i guess

[lethal pike]

wdym

they wont consider ur 3rd into decision

[dull meteor]

yeah

so i won't submit 3

[hazy bramble]

submitted my app yesterday 🤧

[small fog]

hello

did anyone pick information systems as their major

[dreamy magnet]

hi, would anyone be willing to review my cmu essays 🙏

[gritty patrol]

are you a HS junior? Seems kinda early to write

[dreamy magnet]

i forgot to update he roll 💀... i am senior

[sick tinsel]

does the cmu portal allow u to send resumes or research abstracts chat?

[hot seal]

no

[sick tinsel]

dang it

[flat heron]

how do you answer the additional info question?

[sour kelp]

I was told to just write about something you haven't shown yet. Like for me, im writing about community service there because it was important to my app

[flat heron]

is it okay if you structure it like a story?

or does it have to be straightforward more like a uc essay?

looking at the examples, it seems i can put my community essay here

but not sure

[sour kelp]

i dont think theres a "right" CMU way

I tell a story, but within the story there's lessons i learn, what i do ,etc.

[flat heron]

mm i see

is half of the essay story and the other half about cmu?

or like what youve learned

[sour kelp]

UC essays at least imo are more like here's what i did, here's what i felt, here's what ill do and way less "creative" imo

[sour kelp]

im not even sure you need to for this

[flat heron]

did you write a completely new essay

or reuse another prompt

[flat heron]

does "tell us, dont show us" mean no stories or is it chill

[lavish jolt]

stories are fine, they just don’t want links to stuff

[ocean garden]

That's what I did

Well my diversity essay

Its basically an open space for any essay you want

One that shows smth that the other essays haven't already showed

Don't overthink it

[flat heron]

got it, but my community essay's last paragraph is like "at [college], i plan to do the same, taking advantage of ..." so do you think its chill if i still add specifics for cmu

[lethal pike]

how did you write it tho

like

do you write it like a normal essay

or say like say it directly

also by Tell us, don’t show us do they mean just abt the no website links etc or the writing style aw like tell,not show

[ocean garden]

Yeah sure

[ocean garden]

Lowk I decided to apply to CMU on the day the application was due so I just copy pasted 3 other essays

[ocean garden]

Normal essay

[lethal pike]

did u say show something throughout or like explain why you want to emphasize it

idk

[ocean garden]

They just don't want people putting links to portfolios or smth

[ocean garden]

I didn't modify that essay at all from my other schools 💀

[lethal pike]

alr

[ocean garden]

It's just a space to put another essay which shows another part of you

[hot seal]

dNG WHAT

[cedar turret]

same bro

i applied the night before the deadline

[hot seal]

WHAT

[cedar turret]

i made a template essay to submit to all the schools that covered the why us part

and a few other templates

[hot seal]

cool

[cedar turret]

my template was kinda shit looking back at it but apparently it worked!

[hot seal]

lowkey that makes me feel like bad if ive been working on it and planning to apply for a long time and i dont get in

[cedar turret]

i’m absolutely not saying to use my method, in fact i advise against it

it’s really good to spend time on the essays

and produce something you’re proud of

[hot seal]

yes precisely im not, i got deferred ed

[cedar turret]

ok good

[hot seal]

and i didnt particularly produce smth i was proud of

looking back

my writing got better

[ocean garden]

Nah college decisions are so random

I didn't really want to go to CMU when I applied

Then I researched more after I got in and liked it

[hot seal]

loll real

the more ik abt scohols like when im doing why us the more i wanna go

[ocean garden]

And I wasn't expecting to get in 💀

I just applied just because

[cedar turret]

i wanted to go to uf originally

but then got denied

so now i’m here

[hot seal]

wth

dang

[ocean garden]

😭

[cedar turret]

you’ll find a good majority of the school didnt want to originally come to cmu

i absolutely love it here

but originally i didn’t want to come

[hot seal]

i didnt know much abt it then i loved it while applying then i became nonchalant when after i got deferred

[cedar turret]

fair

it has a lot of pros and a lot of cons

mostly the food

i fucking hate the dining halls after a semester

compared to pitt

[hot seal]

i like my food

[cedar turret]

@ocean garden do you like rip off panera

or rip off panda express

[ocean garden]

Is that abp and hunan

[cedar turret]

or my personal favorite: pizza place that raises the price for lunch vs dinner but gives the same amount of food

[cedar turret]

yes

[ocean garden]

It's cuz if you search up CMU, you see so much hate

[cedar turret]

ppl just get mad about the amount of work then cry online

[ocean garden]

Abp is good, hunan is mid

[ocean garden]

Wait lowk I don't pay attention to prices

Is this crisp n crust or the edge

[cedar turret]

edge

[ocean garden]

It's always 2 slices per block though right

[cedar turret]

10 dollars vs 13.50 dollars for 2 slices

[ocean garden]

Oh wait yeah block price changes

Wait they change it on the retail menu too??

[cedar turret]

pretty sure

[ocean garden]

Bro 💀

I'm not getting a meal plan next year 🙏

[cedar turret]

i hate chartwells

[ocean garden]

At least there's variety

I just keep cycling through

Or I just spam tahini lmao

[cedar turret]

cmu kids after taking weed out courses

[ocean garden]

Are there really any weed out courses though

It's a weed out university

[novel rose]

Lmao

[sick tinsel]

Cmu is like the goat of all enginnering universities

[lethal pike]

2. Many students pursue college for a specific degree, career opportunity or personal goal. Whichever it may be, learning will be critical to achieve your ultimate goal. As you think ahead to the process of learning during your college years, how will you define a successful college experience? (300 word maximum)

this essay shouldnt connect to past stuff right?

or should it

[sour kelp]

this is like a Psuedo-Why CMU essay

[lethal pike]

hmm

its quite broad and step-back kind of thing

[sour kelp]

i mean from what i've read online at least, like you should talk about "Why Cmu" in it while tslking about what you mean by succesful

[tepid rose]

hello all, was wondering if SCS considers your intended major during admissions? ie would they be looking at pure cs vs comp bio the same during admissions or nah

[stoic relic]

yo quick question but how difficult is transferring between schools? considering applying dietrich as profile fits better but would want to transfer to tepper

[cedar turret]

122, intro to ece, intro to engineering and public policy

3 big ones

[stoic relic]

wait @cedar turret if u know the answer u can answer too sorry for ping 🙏 deciding between major to apply as rn

[cedar turret]

i don’t think they do but i’m not cs

[cedar turret]

it depends on the school, typically it’s easy as long as you’re getting good grades and they have space

[ocean garden]

They don't

I applied comp bio but I'm doing CS now (might do addl in comp bio though)

[stoic relic]

okay igu

i heard some schools are mad comp for transfer which is why i was asking

[cedar turret]

it all depends on the space they have

like IS is hard to transfer to due to the lack of space

so they have very high standards

you do not have the right here to transfer like some schools where you can change your major on the portal

it’s all dependent on the space they have, supply and demand

[stoic relic]

this makes sense

thank you

[ocean garden]

Not sure about Tepper but generally avoid trying to game admissions and just apply to the major you wanna actually fo

You don't wanna be stuck

[ocean garden]

But I feel like not that many people transfer out if classes are hard?

So the notion of a weed out is really different from other schools

[novel rose]

is it just me or are the CMU prompts like extremely copypastable from other schools and UCs

[cedar turret]

it is

i just copy and pasted

[versed spade]

is this for econ lol but wanna do finance

cuz im also kinda thinking abt tha t

[stoic relic]

like the thing with me is that i'm hella interdisciplinary but ultimately want to end up in some sort of consulting if i don't get into the startup space

[ocean garden]

Yeah I also just copy pasted

[stoic relic]

if i had to answer a legit "why major" for business admin i think i'd perish

bc imho business admin is a dumb major 💀

like idk how someone can be passionate about it

they can talk about like omg the impact it can have on communities through community serivce

but that's not a true passion for the major itself

if that makes sense

[ocean garden]

Then it's not the major for you 💀

[stoic relic]

yeah but if im going into consulting like i kinda have to go into business LOL

[novel rose]

i think what he says makes perfect sense for business admin

[ocean garden]

Wait but surely tepper has other majors

[stoic relic]

yeah thats what i was thinking for applying for

[ocean garden]

Idk anything about Tepper or business lmao

[stoic relic]

literally only has business admin

like

i love how wharton has econ

[novel rose]

if you understand the people that go into business admin, you really notice people just use it as a means to an end

[stoic relic]

its actual grounded education and application

[novel rose]

nobody cares about the major itself

[stoic relic]

exactly ^^ !

i love learning itself i feel like anything is applicable to impact if you choose it ot be

[ocean garden]

Oh 💀

[stoic relic]

learning about how businesses run and stuff is like stupid imo

😭

i say this as someone who will try and break into consulting

[ocean garden]

Surely you could write a application-focused essay

[novel rose]

also isn't ts due tmrw

[stoic relic]

yeah i totally could but i was thinking about writing that for my third lol i have a good story for my basis for application

[stoic relic]

yeah

ive written last minute for so long lol its bad

[versed spade]

yea i decided to choose tepper

😮‍💨

[stoic relic]

lowk i was searching i tup

and i heard tepper is less selective too

[versed spade]

oh really

its cuz like i didnt wanna rewrite my thing that i stole from econ in the other schools

💀

so i just moved some stuff around

🥀

[ocean garden]

Lol I decided to apply on the due date

[stoic relic]

wait

[novel rose]

why would a cs major not apply cmu 💀

[stoic relic]

does variance actually exist between schools in cmu

for like selectivity

ik cornell is decentralized so theres a LOT of vriance

[ocean garden]

Influenced by hate online + cost

[stoic relic]

but idk as much for cmu

[versed spade]

😮‍💨

[novel rose]

also wait sansk do you do usaco

[ocean garden]

Yeah

[novel rose]

I feel like i've seen the name before

[ocean garden]

I'm silver

[novel rose]

I might've talked to you on my other account

[ocean garden]

You prob have

[versed spade]

other acc lol

[stoic relic]

i've heard both tepper and dietrich are less selective than the school overall but do you have any insight on how selective they are relative to each other

[ocean garden]

I think tepper is more selective but idk?

[versed spade]

oh shit

[ocean garden]

Dietrich is very flexible though if you want that

Like there's so many majors and it's really easy to switch between them

[novel rose]

I'm getting doxxed if I use my main on a2c

my gh profile has my real name n everything

[versed spade]

😭

[stoic relic]

yeah most cas schools are that makes sense

[ocean garden]

I'm not sure CMU hides a lot of the admissions process

[stoic relic]

yeahh thats what im trying to figure out rn

[novel rose]

cmu is fairly transparent

[ocean garden]

Like they burn all the applications after admissions are over

[stoic relic]

from 2020 the data says tepper is much less selective than dietrich but that's when they stopped publishing

i thikn 23% vs 13%

[ocean garden]

So that no one can request their college application

[novel rose]

iirc this is illegal?

Oh no sorry

[stoic relic]

but recent sources have said tepper has exploded in selectivity

sooo

[novel rose]

you have to be able to recieve whatever they have on you

[stoic relic]

ya boi has no clue

[novel rose]

so by burning it they avoid FERPA

[ocean garden]

Yeah but they destroy all of it

[novel rose]

yeah

[versed spade]

i mean i think id still do tepper regardless

[ocean garden]

So you can ask and they'll just say they don't have anything

[versed spade]

idek if i wanna be in dietrich

[novel rose]

they release comprehensive numbers tho

[versed spade]

🥲

[stoic relic]

lol i'd be fine with dietrich for a semester

or year

i just need to get to consulting.. eventually

[versed spade]

transfer tho is that harder

[stoic relic]

dunno

[ocean garden]

Lowk idk anyone who wants to transfer to tepper

[stoic relic]

how closed off is the tepper environment/resources from other schools

i'm guessing bc tepper is less selective it's also like

not as private

[versed spade]

but i mean doing econ is shared

[stoic relic]

compared to wharton and its resources compared to other schools within penn

[ocean garden]

Not that much idt

[stoic relic]

yeah

i'd think so

[ocean garden]

There's plenty of cs majors in the entrepreneurship frat

[stoic relic]

i think im gonna go dietrich econ

[ocean garden]

And startup resources anyone can access

[stoic relic]

i'm assuming dietrich and tepper have similar first-year classes for econ at the minimum

[versed spade]

probably

[stoic relic]

so i won't be like

too excluded from the environemnt

if internal transfer does work out

[novel rose]

why are there two econ majors anyways

[ocean garden]

You can check this 💀

[novel rose]

I know nothing about cmu except SCS for forgive my ignorance

[versed spade]

no its one but its shared classes at tepper and dietrich

[stoic relic]

lol can i

ok brb

[ocean garden]

But CMU has a lot of separation lol

Like there's different comp bio classes for bio majors and comp bio majors

💀

[novel rose]

what

just why

[ocean garden]

For stats, there's a CS version, math version, and a stats version

Of the same class

[versed spade]

😭😭

[ocean garden]

Allows them to customize the classes more to the audience I think

[novel rose]

I feel like that works against students though

[ocean garden]

I mean you can take any version in most cases

You have the choice to take the stats major version of stats as a CS major for example

[stoic relic]

???

this is so weird

like i knew this before but tis just so weird and im exclaiming it now

economics is housed in "tepper" for the actual CMU site

but you can't select it on commonapp

lowk can i email cmu

would they get back to me by tmorrow

lol

[versed spade]

yea lol

no because they moved econ to dietrich

but u still share with tepper

[stoic relic]

i heard the opposite

💀

[versed spade]

idk i was like trying to figure that out earlier too

[stoic relic]

at least on reddit

[versed spade]

wat

[stoic relic]

that they moved it from dietrich to tepper

[versed spade]

🤔

oh maybe it was that then

but still sharing the classes

[stoic relic]

https://www.reddit.com/r/cmu/comments/1hh7g0e/is_dietrich_good_for_economics_vs_teppper/

[versed spade]

its just wack imo

like on the tepper programs econ is there too

smh

[stoic relic]

yes

i saw

its just like

when im applying as commonapp i can't choose econ in tepper

which is stupid

im still gonna email them tbh

[versed spade]

lmk what they say 🥲

[stoic relic]

but yeah ok im gonna go w dietrich

wait

i can just call them tmr

im a genius

[lethal flint]

wait lemme get this straight

first supp is why major and i can just copy and paste

second is why us?

third i just probably copy and paste from somewhere too

[versed spade]

third u can just write whatever right

[lethal flint]

lowk might just use that first stanford prompt again

[coral current]

Can i write like literally anything in q3

like paste a community essay

or do i have to show another facet of personallity that i havent covered in Q1 & Q2

[ocean garden]

Pretty much

[ocean garden]

It is optimal if you do that

Otherwise the essay kinda useless

[coral current]

so do i have to do something not major-related?

the first two are p much fully like that so im not sure how much more insight another 300 words would give

[ocean garden]

Anything that adds more about you

[gritty mirage]

where is this why major essay

[lethal flint]

Wdym where

[gritty mirage]

for

oih

i thought this was stanford

becuase i saw you

💀

thats on me

[lethal flint]

Stanford isn’t the only school in applying to dawg

imagine someone who did that tho

Ego

[gritty mirage]

i assumed as much but i just saw you

[stone vector]

submitteeddddddd

:D

[sour kelp]

For the Why Major and Why CMU essays, is it ok if they kinda build off of each other with a bit of overlap. Like my Why major is about my research in an area, and my Why CMU talks about exploring that research at CMU

[willow perch]

Stanfords my safety fr

[willow perch]

That's fine as long as theres not much repetition

[sour kelp]

Like my why major was about using computer vision to research one project, and then the start of my Why CMU is about using CV for another project that then leads into a specific lab, resources

Is that too repetitive in your opinion?

[junior cradle]

its so bad i got yieled protected

[rigid linden]

i have the same essay but am applying to information systems cuz cs is too competitive and I still want to get into carnegie bc it's a beautiful campus. I don't really see a difference between the two but I believe information systems is more data-driven and making informed decisions and less theory heavy

[sour kelp]

Im doing SCS Human-Computer interaction and A

[sour kelp]

smart move tho

[rigid linden]

Gl

[sour kelp]

u too man

[novel rose]

iirc you can change majors within SCS fairly easily

so you get admitted to SCS as a whole

[ocean garden]

Well you don't enter with a major 💀

I don't have a major yet

[gritty patrol]

I think the technicality is you default to CS unless you apply to something different

[lethal pike]

same

[hushed mist]

is CMU Tepper or econ more selective?

[sick tinsel]

U do for coe

For enginnering u enter with a major

It's on the cmu website

[cosmic crystal]

How’d u do the ideal college experience essay tho

[lethal pike]

https://tenor.com/view/get-ideal-not-ideal-yi-sang-limbus-company-ideal-gif-2610900207344769450

[stoic relic]

calling rn

for anyone who is interested:

college acceptanace rates will be the same across the board apart from CS and some drama programs. they're pushing hard on that this year.

economics is initially funneled through dietrich but goes into tepper; this is simply administrative in nature to allow for BA's as well as BS's (although imho this is kinda dumb)

internal transfer is very easy at cmu; between schools also isn't extremely difficult from how she sounded

uhh who was asking about this

@hushed mist

im actually very surprised by how open they were with information

i offhandedly brought up admission rates between schools and she was the one to volunteer information, i didn't even ask

i'm like "oh i'v eheard and seen online that some schools have varying acceptance rates, which is why i was confused.." and she took that and elaborated on it

[lethal pike]

internal transfer between what

which schools