{"admissions":{"act_25":34,"act_75":35,"admit_rate":11.4,"applicants":33707,"sat_25":1500,"sat_75":1570,"source_year":2023,"submit_share":{"act_pct":17,"definition":"share of enrolled first-years who submitted a score (CDS C9)","sat_pct":51,"year":2023},"test_policy":"Test-optional"},"admit_by_major":null,"aid_policy":{"conditions":"no-loan packaging below $100,000","effective_year":null,"free_all_threshold":null,"free_tuition_threshold":75000,"meets_full_need":true,"no_loan":true,"no_loan_threshold":100000,"quote":"The program makes it possible for students whose families earn $75,000 or less annually to attend CMU tuition-free. Additionally, students whose families earn $100,000 or less annually can attend CMU without utilizing any federal student loans. This means that 100% of their demonstrated financial need will be met with financial aid offers that do not include loans. ... Carnegie Mellon meets 100% of demonstrated financial need for all undergraduate students who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents, regardless of their family income.","source_url":"https://www.cmu.edu/sfs/cost-and-affordability/pathway-program/index.html","verified":true},"at_a_glance":["Carnegie Mellon University is a private nonprofit four-year college in PA. It admitted 11% of applicants (33,707 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1500\u20131570, ACT 34\u201335. 51% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 17% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class. Average enrolled GPA 3.89 (unweighted, 2024-25, as published by the college).","Cost: about $31,944 a year on average with aid, $83,654 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $114,862 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $1,020,844 ahead with aid, $814,004 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($268,121); Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering ($250,168); Computer and Information Sciences, General ($187,437).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 4% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 53% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college: families earning under $75,000 pay no tuition; aid packages carry no loans for families under $100,000; the college meets full demonstrated need (no-loan packaging below $100,000).","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Carnegie Mellon University: 125, 383 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Harker School (9.0 per class year, 27 over 3 class years, Classes of 2023, 2024 & 2025); Orange County School of the Arts (5.0 per class year, 5 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Harvard-Westlake School (4.0 per class year, 4 over 1 class year, BY THE CLASSES OF 2021-2025, counted column \"CLASS OF '25\"). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/carnegie-mellon-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Carnegie Mellon University: 10, 27 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (10.0 per class year, 10 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); The TASIS School in Dorado (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Wilmington Friends School (1.0 per class year, 2 over 2 class years, 2023 & 2024). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/carnegie-mellon-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/carnegie-mellon-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":9097},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":6994},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":14468},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":24865}],"full_price":83654,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":31944,"npc_url":"https://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/financial-aid-estimator","tuition_in_state":66246,"tuition_out_of_state":66246},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":114862,"median_6yr_after_entry":105360},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":27,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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