Congratulations! All good choices. it couldn’t hurt to reach out to a professor at each and maybr ask to be connected to a current student. For our older child, the energy in those responses helped make the decision. Good luck 
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I would say the same thing about Pitt. My S19 has many, many floor mates from freshman year who didn’t make and failed out. I do call it a sink-or-swim school.
Parent support is a must even with the most savvy, independent students (My S19 included) My context is coming from our 2, soon to be 3 Dietrich students.
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Hi! Posting here hopefully to help future applicants 
I’m an OOS student, got in for Political Science major in September, was accepted in October, awarded $10k/yr in merit aid in October, and was just accepted into Honors
My school has a weird GPA system but translating it to regular, I have a 4.0 unweighted GPA
1540 SAT
Highly competitive extra-curriculars, including being nationally ranked top 3 in debate
I hope that helps!
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S24 accepted to Honors. SCI (CS major).
S24 accepted to honors college. Waiting until Ivy day to make any decisions as there are still a few outstanding schools he’s applied to.
did anyone hear back about Chancellors? website says mid-february, but I haven’t seen anyone say anything…
Any idea of stats needed to even be considered for Chancellors?
How did you find out about admitted students days? D28 OOS, Public Health hasn’t seen anything for those.
Multiple emails, postcard(s), and it’s on the website.
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No emails or postcards received. She did commit in early Nov, maybe that is why?
Hmm, maybe. They call it Decision Day, and it’s marketed as a way to make your choice, not tour where you will go next year.
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Most kids go to admitted students days in the process of making a decision, so the school would not be advertising only to committed students:
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This was how it was described yesterday - for students still deciding.
Advising gets much better sophomore year after they declare a major. Pitt has AMAZING resources for pre-health majors with the world class UPMC right on campus. Several of my D’s friends are pre-med (she is genetics) and they all have great internships and paying lab jobs, many health-related activities, etc. You don’t gate that at a college when their med school is at a different campus (Penn State, Cornell, etc.). Something to think about.
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My son got accepted as pre-PT under Dietrich. He may go with Rehab Science later. I hope that can get him different advising than regular Dietrich undecided and guide him to be on track for DPT or other healthcare track if he changes his mind. How is genetic at Pitt? My son is also interested in DNA topic and has done summer program for bioinformatics at Rutgers. However, Bio computing at Pitt is under school of computing but not Dietrich.
Our daughter got accepted to Pitt Honors, but was not awarded any merit…which takes it off the list. We are OOS and while we know what a great school it is, we cannot justify the full OOS cost. FWIW our 2023 daughter did not get accepted to Pitt honors and was awarded $10K/year in merit. 
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Actually my son could not see Bioinformatics at Rutgers for UG. There was only Masters Bioinformatics at Rutgers and hence chose Computational Biology at Upitt but in Dietrich. It was not in School of computing though there is an overlap. The admission letters states Computational Biology in Dietrich. Are there other colleges for UG for Bioinformatics. If so pls share.
It’s interesting. I didn’t realize it’s under biological science because I first saw the major when looking at school of computing at Pitt. I think it’s kind of in between Dietrich and Computing.
Most schools have bioinformatics as master degree level. Few have it for bachelor but it’s math heavy curriculum. By looking at the curriculum from Pitt, it seems not a math heavy curriculum.
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I think before there was a Pitt School of Computing, Computational Biology was a type of math major. As a math major, you can do a B.S. in Mathematical Biology - that would be more math heavy. And maybe you could combine the math degree with a C.S. degree or minor.
Regarding the advising, both my Pitt kids have found the Dietrich “general” advising, before you declare a major, to be a bit lacking. However, advising for freshman/sophomores is lacking at a lot of colleges. You need to read the requirements for gen eds and for your intended major and make sure you are taking the right classes. Don’t 100% rely on others.
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Hi guys! The decisions for the chancellors scholarship interview will be out by friday
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