My child was accepted tonight!!! Dietrich. Submitted 9/15, STARS completed 9/19, under review a couple days later! My intuition was telling me tonight was going to be the night. Good luck to all still waiting!
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I suggested to my D that we will skip the admitted students days in November. We went there 3 years ago for my son but didnât find anything we couldnât miss. Any thoughts? She was there three years ago, and understand why I suggested it.
Congrats!!! Was it around the 7-730pm timeframes that someone mentioned earlier? Congrats again!!
Thanks. Yes. Same timeframe mentioned here.
Congratulations!! Dos anyone know, does Pitt typically send out daily? Weekly?
I was planning on going. Can you share why it was not worth it? Hotels are very expensive that weekend.
I believe they send out daily. And around 7-7:30 each day.
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Iâm also curious about this. We canât go that weekend. I was wondering what weâd be missing by just going for a regular tour.
Good question - we just came back from doing a tour and info session. Does the admitted student day offer much more. DD not accepted yet but wonder if we should plan on going back if she does. It is a plane flight away so would need to be really worth it.
Anyone seeing merit offers yet?
For those wondering about accepted students day, we did it last year and I would classify it as a tour on steroids. You get a light breakfast and then you spend about an hour in an auditorium with all the other families getting a pitch and playing some games. Youâre then separated by your school. My child was in Dietrich, so we were taken to the auditorium over in Barco to hear about classes in Dietrich from professors and students. After that, you have the option to take a tour or explore some of the tables set up by various departments at Pitt. You also get to have lunch in the dinning hall. There are various other talks that you can opt into, but nothing super earth shattering. It was a good experience for us because 1. my daughter hadnât officially toured campus at that point (I work there, so sheâs been unofficially visiting campus for years, but hadnât had a chance to see dorms and such) and 2. it didnât cost anything for us to go (weâre local). If youâve been on a tour, you arenât missing much. If your child is on the fence and needs the extra push, this might be it. At the end of the day, itâs a sale pitch to choose Pitt.
My daughter was accepted to Dietrich! Application was under review as of 9/9 and letter of acceptance in portal was dated for 10/2. We already have a visit scheduled for early November, so we most likely will not do the admitted students visit. Two of my nieces have been students there for the past 2 years, so my daughter has also âvisitedâ already. Hereâs to hoping she chooses Pitt when itâs all said and done. Best of luck to everyone else!!! 
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I would love to hear peopleâs top reasons for applying to Pitt, esp if youâre out of state.
It was a last-minute add for my D26 because someone on CC mentioned a major that might interest her â and it really did. And then, sheâs kind of in love with the idea of the city, even though weâve never been there, lol.
So if anyone is willing to share, I would love to hear the biggest draws â and also maybe what another top-choice school is for your kid, and if itâs similar to Pitt.
Also, does anyone have any experience with marching band at Pitt? Trying to glean what the experience is like. Thanks! 
I canât help a lot with the reasoning, but my daughter did the same thing. Last minute she added Pitt when doing her common app and our first official visit will be in November for accepted students. She said she liked aspects of the data science major they offer, and we did a virtual meeting on the honors college and she was very impressed with it. We have been to the area when visiting CMU, so weâve been by the campus and drove through it. We are OOS but only 2 hours away (Ohio), so she knows it is only an option if she gets enough merit to make it affordable. Her other colleges are OSU, Purdue, UMD, Case, RPI, and Miami Ohio. I canât wait to have an official visit next month and get more information since it is one of her top schools now.
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Ah, okay! Funny, we also started looking at CMU, but my D26 decided it wasnât for her. But she also applied to RIT and Miami Ohio â both are among her top choices, actually, even though theyâre very different schools.
I wish we had time to visit Pitt this fall, but itâs a flight for us and just not in the cards. If she gets in, weâll do an admitted students day in spring most likely.
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We added Pitt last minute too as one of the few 4-year BS Architecture degrees in an acceptable state. C26 is not sold on Pittsburgh as a city though. If they get in and donât get into one of their 2 top choices (one of which is a reach) weâll visit in spring.
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RIT and Miami are pretty opposites - and both my daughters liked both as well lol!
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Pitt was on our list early because of rolling admission, but a visit sealed the deal. My D was looking for:
an urban campus 
a direct admit nursing program (bonus that itâs very highly ranked)
clinicals nearby
school spirit / D1 sports
Itâs a nice size for a âlarge state schoolâ and is located in a nice area of Pittsburgh (right by CMU, museums, parks, etc.). We visited last summer during a Blue and Gold Day. We are trying to get back this fall or winter during the school year, when students are around. Pitt is definitely a top contenderâŠ
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I assume they will have more accepted students days in the new year? Itâs not just this one in November right?
We applied last year, accepted w NO merit. Coming in about $18k more per year than RPI, which is a smaller, more intimate school. RPI for the win!
Also, for Architecture, a 4 year requires post graduate studies, where as some schools have a 5 year b. arch. RPI has that. My kid is a STEM major, not arch.
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