Sorry if i wasn’t clear, but i was referring to U Pitt’s stats and not CMU’s. Was responding to your post about weather in Pittsburgh yesterday 
Not all schools offer merit, and the ones that do have different criteria and thresholds. It really depends on what kind of students they want to incentivize to enroll.
Nothing odd about your outcome.
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Here’s a view of CMU campus from U Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning tower. Took this pic from the 36th floor while touring UPitt’s David C. Frederick honors college
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Awesome shot! is that the museum in the foreground?
Ok thx. Two of the 3 we received merit were for west cost schools. We live east coast
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$100K will seem like a bargain when it is hitting $200K . . . .
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Yes, that is the Carnegie Museum and Library complex in the foreground. CMU is on the other side of the ravine.
Interestingly, though, CMU is working on a new building that will help bridge the campus over the ravine, including an art museum designed to sort of tie into the Carnegie complex. Here is a rendering:
Along the left upper side you can see two of the newer CMU buildings with the yellowish brick, which also face each other across the ravine.
If you can play around with this 3D Google Map you will get an idea of what that area currently looks like:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4445953,-79.9498158,57a,35y,103.19h,74.79t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
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That may or may not matter.
I can empathize with the author. I have been treated that way when asking other outcomes-based questions at k-12 private schools. I didn’t even bother when touring colleges with S24. What’s the point?
Thanks for posting - I thought that this last point was the most salient
““We should care about whether they get into a state university system at a low cost and find a well-paying career that can keep them in the middle class,” he said. “I do think that sometimes any tension over what elite colleges are doing moves us away from what we should be caring about as a society.””
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I hope that colleges decide that discriminating on the grounds of gender is just as dubious as discriminating on the grounds of race. However, using SAT/ACT testing might help to redress the balance marginally in favor of boys, since they tend to have slightly worse GPAs but slightly better test scores. So I wonder if that might be another reason some schools decide to give more consideration to test scores in the future.
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We saw this as well.
Every now and then I walk into a place and think to myself, I would like to live here. So I adopt the place into my imaginary world. Biltmore Estate. Isabella Gardner Museum. And yes, the Cathedral of Learning. I would have a penthouse suite and take my meals in a different country room every day.
Thus ends the TMI portion of my day.
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One of my favorite restaurants anywhere!
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The Cathedral of Learning is truly bonkers. I always think the Commons Room is what Moria must have looked like before they dug too deep . . . .
But speaking of fantasy residences, I am very much looking forward to seeing Vassar’s Thompson Memorial Library in person, because it gives me very strong “dream home” vibes every time I see it in pictures:
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The vassar library is gorgeous and probably the most impressive thing on its campus. My S rules out Vassar because of a music reason but he loved the library!
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The Vassar library is incredible! Unfortunately we were distracted by our tour guide (repeatedly) saying what a bad writer she was and how she depended on the academic tutors. We overheard another parent saying - “if she says one more time that she’s a bad writer, we are leaving -“
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Nothing compares to the gum-cracking Bucknell tour guide who repeatedly told us that we would pay $80k a year to get food poisoning, be constantly bored, and live in dorms overrun by mold.
ETA: daughter didn’t apply.
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Seriously??
Yep. She was awful