How to Get Into Carnegie Mellon: Acceptance Rate & Strategies

Laura Clarke 8/15/23 Laura Clarke 8/15/23

How to Get Into Carnegie Mellon: Acceptance Rate & Strategies

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Extracurriculars can broaden the path in

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Extracurriculars can broaden the path in

More from Chetty et al.

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State flagships do the right thing

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State flagships do the right thing

More from Chetty et al.

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How does income affect admission at elite schools?

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How does income affect admission at elite schools?

Chetty et al. provide a goldmine

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Maybe play the oboe

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Maybe play the oboe

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Stay at the efficient frontier when chasing merit aid

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Stay at the efficient frontier when chasing merit aid

Don’t leave money/points on the table.

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Four on-demand seminars are live

Laura Clarke 7/6/23 Laura Clarke 7/6/23

Four on-demand seminars are live

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Affirmative action is (probably mostly) dead

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Affirmative action is (probably mostly) dead

The dial is turned way down, if not all the way off.

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Launching on-demand seminars

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Launching on-demand seminars

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Contra Yglesias on test-optional admission

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Contra Yglesias on test-optional admission

There are slower and more boring explanations.

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Ken Griffin bought his kids spots at Harvard

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Ken Griffin bought his kids spots at Harvard

Obviously!

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Harvard lets in more Asian-Americans

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Harvard lets in more Asian-Americans

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Columbia goes test-optional

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Columbia goes test-optional

But your kid should still take a standardized test!

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A new racial category

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A new racial category

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Lessons from TJ

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Lessons from TJ

Chiefly, that we’re all on our own.

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Intrant robots

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Intrant robots

Some musings prompted by a little fever.

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Just-in-time management doesn’t work for college applications

Laura Clarke 12/6/22 Laura Clarke 12/6/22

Just-in-time management doesn’t work for college applications

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A successful application minimizes risk and information asymmetry

Laura Clarke 11/29/22 Laura Clarke 11/29/22

A successful application minimizes risk and information asymmetry

Let’s make your kid a sure bet.

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Yale and Harvard law schools leave the rat race

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Yale and Harvard law schools leave the rat race

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What else did we learn at the Supreme Court?

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What else did we learn at the Supreme Court?

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