IU-Kelly-Direct/U Pitt

CCName1
Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:51:07 +0000

For law school, the most important factors for admission will be college GPA and LSAT score. Will your daughter fare better in one of these environments vs the other?

They are different student experiences. As others have said, Pitt is urban (which my daughter preferred, but it’s not for everyone). Indiana will be a more traditional campus. Pitt has big time sports and school spirit, but I imagine that IU is a different level. I have an older daughter at a different big 10 school, and it’s a way bigger deal than it is at Pitt. Again, my Pitt daughter wasn’t looking for those rah-rah, cult-like (I say lovingly, as my older daughter loves her school) experiences, but some kids do want that.

One thing to consider is how hard it is to join clubs. At my older daughter’s school and at other large state schools we visited, it is very competitive to join professional clubs. The acceptance rates into the clubs is far lower than into the university. That’s great for some kids, but my Pitt student doesn’t like that kind of constant competitiveness. Pitt does have some clubs that are competitive, but for the most part they are not and students are able to join and make an impact without extended rushing or interviewing to join these professional organizations.

If money is no object, and she wants an IU experience, then go for it. But if money matters in any way, the smarter financial choice would definitely be Pitt. The recruiting will be similar, and it sounds like this won’t be her terminal degree so it makes more sense to be able to afford graduate school later than to spend the extra now.

I didn’t realize that Pitt had awarded any of its large, named scholarships yet. This level of merit (or even financial aid, if you are OOS) is very rare there.