<p>aglages - Please do not consider the information on this forum to represent a truly random selection of students. I do not know where you are getting your information on “almost all of the merit money seems to be going to OOS students,” but it’s obviously more impressive to say one received a $10K or $12K scholarship rather than a $2K scholarship. The $10K OOS (which I guess has now been rasied to $12K) scholarship is the same scholarship as the $2K scholarship for in-state students. The $10K (and/or $12K) essentially makes the out-of-state tuition the same as in-state.</p>
<p>However, Pitt is and has been making a determined effort to attract OOS students. That’s pretty much the norm around the public university world these days. Even California has announced that their vaunted state university system flagship will increase its OOS enrollment by 10%.</p>