Not so fast.
http://www.cmu.edu/admission/forms/09/CA_Supplement.pdf
Check out the application. Section IV. Under Carnegie Institute of Technology.
“If you want to be considered for Electrical and Computer Engineering, you must specify this department.”
So maybe we’re both right. To be in the ECE department (which I was) you had to be declared and considered before admission.
Other, lesser majors may have been more open and lenient.
God, you are a hubristic ass! LOL!