Pitt as Safety/Match/Reach for my D

MYOS1634
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:49:20 +0000

Pitt is a safety for admissions, a match for honors college, and a reach for merit aid (spend time on the essays).

Pennsylvania has two flagships (Pitt and Penn state) and their honors college selection favors opposite criteria that serve different top students in the State : test scores at Pitt with a very loose and flexible honors college system, a structured, top honors college at Penn state which does not look at test scores at all but rather essays (read by faculty not adcoms) and curriculum rigor + ECs/ distinctions. In addition PSU has an honors program specifically for liberal arts students (feeds into Schreyer too.)

I’d say that Pitt is better for regular students and PSU better for honors students.

A great college for musicians who don’t want to major in music is St Olaf. Top notch orchestra open to all majors (1/3 students involved in music at pretty high level). Auditions by Dec 1 for non major music scholarships. Very different from Pitt but perhaps worth a visit/NPC run.