CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

    
        
 

TOP FIFTEEN COMPETING SCHOOLS, ENTERING FRESHMEN

  
 

BASED ON APPLICATION OVERLAP

    
 

FALL SEMESTER 1998

     
       
    

Rank Each Year

 
       
 

School

1998

1997

1996

1995

1994

 

MIT

1

2

2

2

2

 

Cornell

2

1

1

1

1

 

U. of Pennsylvania

3

3

3

3

3

 

Stanford

4

12

15

15

21

 

Northwestern

5

5

5

4

4

 

Johns Hopkins

6

5

7

8

5

 

Columbia

7

14

13

N/A

15

 

Boston U.

8

N/A

N/A

6

10

 

Case Western

9

8

12

9

7

 

Princeton

10

4

4

10

6

 

U. of Mich., Ann Arbor

11

N/A

N/A

13

9

 

Brown

12

13

10

12

16

 

Harvard

13

9

8

13

19

 

U. of CA, Berkeley

14

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

 

Penn State

15

11

6

7

12

        
       
       
 

BASED ON ADMITTANCE OVERLAP

    
     

 Rank Each Year

 
       
 

School

1998

1997

1996

1995

1994

 

Cornell

1

1

1

1

1

 

Case Western

2

2

4

3

2

 

Boston U.

3

9

3

4

4

 

Penn State

4

7

2

8

9

 

RPI

5

4

6

2

5

 

John Hopkins

6

3

10

9

7

 

MIT

7

6

12

7

11

 

New York

8

10

8

N/A

13

 

U. of Rochester

9

15

N/A

11

N/A

 

U. of Pennsylvania

10

8

13

N/A

5

 

U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

11

11

5

10

10

 

Northwestern

12

14

11

6

6

 

Rutgers

13

N/A

9

15

14

 

Washington U. (St. Louis)

14

5

7

5

3

 

U. of Virginia

15

N/A

14

N/A

N/A

       
 

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.