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<p>Pitt places a lot of emphasis on high school class rigor and performance in their admissions evaluation. It also loves out-of-state kids. NoVa is no exception.</p>
<p>The reality is, Pitt has a lot more beds to fill than Holy Cross.</p>
<p>You can think of it this way too… If you look at the cohort of Pitt’s freshman pre-admitted to the honors college, it was 18% of the total 2012 freshman class, or about 655 freshman students. That compares to 763 total freshman at Holy Cross. Pitt’s population of students that were honors college pre-admits is almost as large as entire student population of the College of Holy Cross itself. And the average SAT of the Pitt Honors group was 1470 (CR+M) compared to Holy Cross’s student body approximate average of 1300. From this you can extrapolate that Pitt has a much larger community of higher SAT scoring students than Holy Cross. As is, Holy Cross only averages about 45 points more than the entire population of Pitt students which number over 6X as many. Pitt is also churning out many more Rhodes, Marshal, Truman, and Goldwater scholars from its Honors College than Holy Cross is.</p>