Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Carnegie Mellon University sets new application record
Pittsburgh Business Times:: "Competition for undergraduate admission to Carnegie Mellon University will be stiff with a record number of applications submitted for the 2010-2011 school year."
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Like this article said, it is encouraging to see such a large desire to go to a university even in times of financial crisis. I'm not sure that this would deter too many people though. If you take a look at many third world countries, there is still a high demand to study. Their approach is more, "life is too hard already as it is that without a college degree, it would be even harder." So, it doesn't seem to me to be too surprising that there is a higher desire to go to school. Not to mention the fact that the mainstream youth audiences have fallen in love with shows demonstrating people parting it up. This also blurs the line between work and play, which may also account for some of this.
This is amazing that CMU is getting recored numbers of applications. I wonder if people are applying just to see if they get any finical add to bring the price down. I wonder if 26,431 people that applied all have CMU as there first choice and really want to go here. I know when I applied to CMU this is my first choice and I really wanted to go here and I had no other schools that where this caliber. I thought that I had no shot at getting in. I thought that I would go to the local college. I am extremely gIad that I got into CMU hope the best to all the people that applied.
It makes me feel very proud to be part of school that is so aggressively sought after. I'm also glad that more and more people know about the amazing programs at our school. I know that when I tell people where I go I get one of two responses: "wow!" or "where?". So its nice to think that more people will know what I am talking about. I am also wondering if carnegie mellon will, in turn, admit more students. Or if the percentage rejected will just have to increase. I hope this makes for a good freshmen class next year.
I remember my senior year that colleges were predicting that more schools would be wait-listing more people, and accepting fewer. I'm curious to see how they have taken that direction, and if with the percentage of applicants increasing, they'll up the waitlists. In some respects that seems like a more sound way of recruiting students that REALLY want to be here.
I am just SO glad I'm not going through the application process right now. "Real Life" job markets are going to be just as crazy.
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