US Top 50 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Extreme Reach

Carnegie Mellon University卡内基梅隆大学

US News 2026 #20 (US News 2026 National Universities)

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At a glance

Carnegie Mellon University is a Extreme Reach school on our readiness map — that label describes how demanding the preparation is for international-school applicants, not an admission probability.

Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US Top 50, US News 2026 #20 per US News 2026 National Universities), it reviews both AP and A-Level curricula, so the question is not which system you study but how strong your core-subject evidence is.

The benchmarks and admit-case chart below come from anonymized application records of Chinese international-school students, aggregated with percentile ranges to protect every individual case.

Where past admits landed

Past admits (whole school, anonymized)GPA and test scores are rounded for anonymity; ACT cases converted to the SAT axis via official concordance
3.43.53.63.73.83.94.012001300140015001600SAT (ACT converted)GPA

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Case benchmarks (anonymized aggregate)

Median GPA3.91P25-P75: 3.30 – 3.96
Median SAT1540P25-P75: 700 – 1590
Median AP count5P25-P75: 1 – 11

Ranges use P25/P75 percentiles instead of extremes so a single outlier cannot skew the picture.

Anonymized admit cases

专业未标注AP

GPA 3.8-3.89 · SAT 1520-1540 · TOEFL 107-113 · AP 7+ 门

Undeclared EngineeringAP

GPA 3.9+ · SAT 1550+ · TOEFL 114+ · AP 7+ 门

逻辑与计算 (Logic and Computation)AP

SAT 1520-1540 · TOEFL 107-113 · AP 5-6 门

建筑学 (Architecture)A-Level

GPA <3.6 · SAT 1450-1510 · TOEFL 107-113 · A-Level 4个A* （3个预估，1个实考）

逻辑与计算 (Logic and Computation)A-Level

GPA 3.6-3.79 · SAT <1450 · TOEFL 114+ · A-Level 4个A* （3个预估，1个实考）

Cases never include student names, school names, teachers, essay text or external application ids.