2025 Forbes New Ivies List

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Anonymous wrote:I’m happy to see Pitt starting to get more recognition. I don’t have a kid there but know so many really bright kids there now.

Pitt is killing it at attracting super bright high stats kids. I know so many high SAT / high GPA kids who are starting to choose Pitt. They do a great job at recruiting.

+1. Pitt is the surprise on the list, but a pleasant one. Both my kids used it as a safety. Admitted in September and done. Neither attended, but we were impressed with the campus and tour. One of my kids was TJ. Don’t know about now, but 2018-2020 sent more kids to Pitt than VT.

Counter-point: in our magnet HS, 54 acceptances to Pitt last year and not one student chose to enroll.

Yeah, but part of that is that Pitt flips the whole admissions game around. They do rolling admissions, and so every top kid uses Pitt as a "safety." This means that tons of super bright kids are applying to Pitt (and are not applying to other "safeties"), and Pitt accepts them all knowing not a lot will come. They're like the opposite of yield protecting.

But what is the consequence of that? First, a whole bunch of kids who might not have considered Pitt consider Pitt.
Second, a whole bunch of kids visit Pitt who might not have visited Pitt. And some of them actually fall in love with Pitt.
Third, some of those super high stats kids DO end up choosing Pitt. I know kids who got into top schools (Michigan, Purdue engineering, Tufts) etc who are choosing Pitt because they liked it better. I honestly know a bunch of high stats kids going to Pitt.

And then Pitt's reputation is going up and up and up. Look at how people talk about Pitt on this board. Now it got designation of Public Ivy.

I think Pitt is playing this game SMART. They're doing something different than other schools, and not only that, their product is good - people who go to Pitt LOVE Pitt. So they're not like gaming the system. They're taking a radically different approach and folks are seeing what Pitt has to offer and choosing it.

I'd be surprised if Pitt doesn't go up in rankings in coming years.