Pitt Merit?
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Anonymous
As another person mentioned, it might be that their algorithm suggests your kid is unlikely to yield. My kid is also an early admit and hasn't gotten merit yet, but I'm not surprised. Tons of kids from his school apply and are admitted every year, but relatively few attend. They aren't wrong that my kid, at least, is not a good bet to yield. |
Anonymous
Why did your kid apply then? And why did all the non-attending kids from their school? As a safety? (genuine question, not a snarker). |
Anonymous
Yes, a safety. The rolling admissions make it very popular. It’s an appealing school that many of them would attend if their higher-preference options don’t pan out. For my kid, at least, it’s probably 8 on the list of 9. So, again, I am not surprised or disappointed not to see merit so far. |
Anonymous
| Admitted over the weekend-private school UMC white male, 3.8 UW GPA, highest rigor, 35 ACT one sitting. Applied to Honors college too. Waiting to hear on merit aid. Got into College of Computing and Information. So glad to have one in the bag!! |
Anonymous
It's a great feeling! Congrats! |
Anonymous
Congrats! When did your kid apply? |
Anonymous
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Applied in late Sept but didn’t submit SRAR until early October. Took less than a month, all
told! |
Anonymous
| Keep checking the document center…my DS just got $20k per year award letter today. college of engineering…good luck to all who are waiting! DS has relatively high stats- 1500, 4.43, good ECs- so not sure about the algorithm theory mentioned above. |
Anonymous
That's awesome. I am. PP with kid accepted in Sept, also got 20k (posted above). Adding stats for the algorithm crowd:3.96 uw, 4.8 W, 35 ACT, great ECs, intl award. |
Anonymous
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The PP saying yield protection I have to say I doubt it. The thing about Pitt is that it does not yield protect. It knows it is a safety for many so admits students it wants based on fairly objective measures and knows there are a lot that will go elsewhere. They give merit as a recruiting tool but it seems like less each year as it’s popularity goes up.
Does anyone know if they overenrolled this past year? DD was admitted with small merit and we are from DC so, with DCTAG of 10K/year, it was our most affordable option at around $35K/year. DD is at a private with merit at we are paying roughly 62K/year for tuition, room and board. |
Anonymous
Pitt obviously doesn’t yield protect in admissions decisions; however, my understanding is that they are very strategic in distribution of merit. Those dollars are a limited resource they can deploy for students they want + think are at least somewhat likely to attend. Our high school has had ~100 applicants to Pitt each of the last two years, with 60-70 admitted and 5-7 attending each year. (By comparison, UVM—another popular likely at our HS—has about double the yield rate.) Given those numbers, I suspect they are offering merit to a relatively small number of kids from our school this early. My understanding is that they keep kids in the merit pool and consider them repeatedly over months. |
Anonymous
DD24 got $10K per year, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, 3.9/4.8 GPA, 34 ACT. She’s grateful and really loves Pitt, but this still puts the total COA over an in state option 
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Anonymous
Tough to get equivalent in state for Popular OOS schools. Always exceptions. We kind of went with "in the ballpark" philosophy. Nevertheless, Congratulations!! |
Anonymous
Yes. Pitt is very expensive. Congrats. |
Anonymous
| How long did it take for y'all get notified from Pitt after the application went into the review stage? |