Does anyone know when Pitt move in day is?
Date are not yet posted. But you can use last year as a guide:
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Got waitlisted.
@pearl0607 Ah, so sorry to hear that, was hoping you’d have a better outcome. Good luck getting off the waitlist if Pitt is your top choice.
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@JCMN , I have referred many friends Pitt for their kids for 5 years. Every kid who toured Pitt that aspire a career in the medical field, loved the campus and Pitt. But the drastic decline in the merit scholarships makes it almost impossible for the oos kids to attend. I hope Pitt recognizes this and reverses the decision to move away from offering generous merit scholarships.
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Hey, two days ago I received an email inviting me to apply for the Kessler Scholars Program at Pitt. Has anyone heard of this or also received this email?
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Exactly how we feel. Love Pitt after visit and DS will commit if price is right even does not get GAP. However, not getting merits makes it too pricy especially we are getting generous merits from other comparable schools from other states.
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Pitt has limited funds due to being a state-related school as opposed to a true state school. Only 7% of Pitt’s funding comes from the state. Pitt has in the past few years shifted its priorities to providing more need-based (including Pell match) and less merit aid. Many lower income instate families were until recently unable to afford Pitt, Penn State, or Temple. My D17, for example, had to exclude those schools from consideration. I applaud Pitt for trying to remedy this situation. In this respect it is way ahead of Penn State.
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Pitt made a decision to realign their scholarship giving as an institution. And while it bums me out too, I get it. But now, Pitt is more like the University of Michigan or any public school where an oos student applies. They probably won’t get much merit, and we’re at the point since this change that oos students are realizing this. I applaud Ohio State University that awards high achieving oos students with the National Buckeye Scholarship which makes oos coa like in state tuition at the oos students’ flagship after this scholarship is applied.
True Pitt is like Mich in the sense that there’s not much merit for OOSers (and I applaud them both for giving relatively more need based aid), but Pitt COA is around $60K while Mich is closer to $80K a significant difference when one is talking OOS costs.
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Yes, and even with the focus on need-based aid, Pitt still offers far more merit to OOS students than Michigan does.
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Overall college tuition gets too high nowadays.
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Pitt doesn’t even offer much to stellar in-state students anymore. (post-Covid)
Pitt still attracts plenty of full-pay international, full-pay OOS, and full-pay in-state students. Schools like William & Mary and UVA offer zero merit (and they tell you up front) to OOS students as well. This is exactly why my in-state S19 chose Pitt.
I actually think it is a great sign for Pitt it is getting to the point it does not need to offer a ton of merit aid OOS. Like, William & Mary is a good example–in my circles it is considered competitive with many good private colleges, and yet costs less than market private at full pay, so is a “good deal” for the full pay set. Others who need more of a price reduction will not consider William & Mary, but–William & Mary gets enough of the students it wants anyway.
These days, it seems to me like more and more people are interested in Pitt for similar non-financial reasons. They are seeing the relatively-uncommon cool urban location, the wide variety of very good departments in both STEM and HASS, and so on. It is becoming in that sense more independently interesting, and not just a Penn State alternative.
And then it makes sense that Pitt can put less money into merit, both in-state and out, because it has become a stronger competitor on other dimensions. Of course that will shift exactly who attends at the margins, and perhaps Pitt will need to re-adjust if things don’t go well. But I think they may also find their “fundamentals” continue to serve them well in the current era of college admissions.
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What I have appreciated about Pitt, compared with many other schools of similar selectivity, is how straightforward they are. There’s just not a lot of mystery. Rolling admissions, the earlier you apply, the better your odds of getting in and getting merit, honors as separate application with a separate decision.
UVM and Boulder, for, example, issue the admissions, merit, and honors decisions all at once, and there’s little to any clear rhyme or reason—why top merit and no honors? Why honors and no merit? Although there is some mystery around Pitt’s merit formula, I appreciate that they do each step separately and don’t create these weird moments of happiness combined with disappointment/confusion.
I might be alone in this, and I know Pitt’s process isn’t perfect. But I do think they have sort of stripped it down to the essentials.
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I feel like there is still the possibility they switch back to a private school.
On the revenue side…
- They only get a small amount of funding from the state-associated school program to offset instate tuition.
- the endowment has increased substantially to rival that of other top privates and top public’s.
If the state of PA pushes on Pitt due to budget shortfalls or the legislature decides they don’t like Pitts medical research (google it) for political reasons, and the state associated status is revoked, Pitt could stand alone with a small increase in cost.
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Yes, I am very, very glad Pitt has a straightforward, very early, unbundled admissions process. S24’s early admittance to Pitt has really taken the pressure off the rest of the process. Would Honors make it more desirable to him? Of course. But just getting the acceptance in a nice clean, early fashion is great.
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Same. Hope things go well for you!
For those wondering about stats:
1420 SAT
4.12 W GPA
6 APs and solid ECs
Waitlisted decision
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That sounds great stats. waitlisted for RBS ? The rutgers has raised the bar very high this time