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The School of Architecture requires the completion of an online questionnaire by January 1 for Regular Decision and Transfer applicants, or November 1 for Early Decision applicants. The School of Architecture admission committee will only review your first submission, so please prepare your answers in advance. Any additional submissions will be discarded.

When completing the questionnaire, please adhere to required length restrictions. Consider each question and provide a thoughtful, succinct answer. Responses exceeding the word limit won't be accepted. We recommend that you prepare your answers in advance, perhaps in Microsoft Word, so you can cut and paste them into the online questionnaire form.

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Section 1

1. In which of the following ways have you visited Carnegie Mellon University and/or the School of Architecture? (Please check all that apply.)

Office of Admission tour, presentation, or interview
Sleeping Bag Weekend
School of Architecture appointment
Pre-College
Other
I have never visited Carnegie Mellon University or the School of Architecture.

2. To what types of undergraduate Architecture programs are you applying? (Please check all that apply.)

Professional Architectural Degree (accredited) – 5-year undergraduate program
  • Bachelor of Architecture (B Arch)
Pre-professional Degree program (non-accredited) – 4-year undergraduate programs
  • BS in Architecture
  • BS in Architectural Studies
  • BA in Architecture
Other

3. To what other majors (not just at Carnegie Mellon University) are you applying? (Please check all that apply.)

Design
Engineering
Environmental studies
Landscape Architecture
Urban Planning
Other
None, Architecture is the only major to which I am applying.

Section 2

(Answer fill-in responses in 20 words or less)

1. In the past two years, have you engaged in any of the following: (Please check all that apply.)

Performing arts – music or theatre
Athletics – individual or team sport
Art classes – craft or studio-based
Fabricating – shop or constructing

If you have engaged in the performing arts or athletics, what have you done? How do you think that the discipline of practicing has relevance to the study of architecture?


If you have engaged in studio-based art classes or fabricating, what have you done? How do you think that the process of making has relevance to the study of architecture?


2. In the past two years, have you attended any of the following types of academic summer programs at any university? (Please check all that apply.)

Pre-College
Summer Academy
Summer College
Architecture Summer Camp
Other
None

If you attended a program, what program did you attend, and what was the subject matter?


Describe a project you completed while attending the program that challenged your approach to problem solving.


3. In the past two years, in what ways have you been exposed to the architectural profession? (Please check all that apply.)

Personally know an architect
Visit to an architecture office
Worked in an architecture office
Other
None

If you have had an opportunity to get to know an architect and/or visit an architecture office, how has this experience influenced your decision to study architecture?


If you have little to no exposure to the architecture profession, please list an architect whose work you admire AND what influence, if any, their work has had on your decision to study architecture.


Section 3

(Answer in 100 words or less.)

The study of architecture through higher education is very different from the practice of architecture as a profession. Your approach the study of architecture in college will influence the direction you take practicing architecture as a career.

This question has two parts: Why do you want to study architecture? And, why do you want to become an architect? Please think about these two stages of becoming an architect, and distinguish between the two in your statement below.


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