CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
TOP FIFTEEN COMPETING SCHOOLS, ENTERING FRESHMEN
BASED ON APPLICATION OVERLAP
FALL 1997 TO 2001
			Rank Each Year
School	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997
Cornell	1	1	1	2	1
MIT	2	2	2	1	2
U. of Pennsylvania	3	3	3	3	3
Johns Hopkins	4	8	11	6	5
Stanford	5	6	5	4	12
Washington U. (St. Louis)	6	5	10	---	7
U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor	7	4	17	11	21
Columbia	8	13	9	7	14
Harvard	9	9	4	13	9
New York University	10	7	8	---	---
Penn State	10	14	12	15	11
Princeton	11	10	6	10	4
U. of CA, Berkeley	12	12	13	14	23
Brown	13	15	16	12	13
Northwestern	14	11	7	5	5
BASED ON ADMITTANCE OVERLAP
			Rank Each Year
School	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997
Penn State	1	1	1	4	7
U. Michigan - Ann Arbor	2	2	---	11	11
Johns Hopkins	3	5	7	6	3
New York	4	4	4	8	10
Washington U. (St. Louis)	5	3	3	14	5
Northwestern	6	6	8	12	14
Cornell	7	7	5	1	1
U. of CA, Berkeley	8	8	9	---	---
Brown	9	11	---	---	---
U. of Pennsylvania	10	10	10	10	8
Columbia	11	9	12	---	---
MIT	12	12	11	7	6
Stanford	13	13	13	---	---
Harvard	14	14	14	---	---
Princeton	15	15	15	---	---
Note:  Overlap refers to the number of applicants or admittees who applied or were admitted to
Carnegie Mellon and one of the other schools listed.