Any disadvantage to a spring 2017 start?

joshetal
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:24:08 +0000

Greetings Hailtopitt1787. Our son has also been waitlisted with guaranteed admission for spring of 2017. We are curious about the waitlist component of the process. We see from the common data set of the past two years that there are a fairly high number of students taken from the waitlist, but are students in the Spring guaranteed admission given any preference? Pitt is far and away his first choice, and he will immediately enroll if he is accepted from the waitlist, but he feels he needs to enroll at one of his other accepting universities too. Our fear is the powerful bonding of new friends and familiarity with the plan B university will extinguish his ties to Pitt by late fall. Knowing how the Spring admission waitlist works will really help this family. Thanks!