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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pitt doesn’t know quite what to do with honors. The average Pitt student has the stats for top honors colleges like Arizona State, so rejecting lots of kids from the UHC isn’t a great idea. Nice to see them go back to the strategy of making everyone 1400+ eligible for honors. (With some lower stat kids too)
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How do you know they've gone back? Source?  Last year tons of perfect stats kids didn't get in.  Acceptance rate was 5%.[/quote]

Associated with the university, last year was the ONLY year ever that they accepted 5%. It was one of the dumbest choices ever. The last thing a school with yield problems (like Pitt!) needs to do is tell three-quarters of it’s high-stat admits that they can only get “second-tier Pitt”.[/quote]

So did they end up with a tiny honors class last year?  If they are liberal admitting to honors, how will that work as far as honors dorms and programming?  Do they have the resources if their yield ends up being high?[/quote]

Las year’s class was significantly smaller. Not every kid in honors wants honors housing. Before last year they would simply designate kids as “honors course eligible” and the housing app was separate. About 25% of freshmen were honors course eligible. Pitt admin is smart enough to know that locking kids out of opportunities so NOVA parents can feel better about sending kids there is DUMB.
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