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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone NOT get into Pitt?[/quote]

For yield reasons, they end up accepting most everyone above 1300/1600.[/quote]

Pitt flips the approach to admissions on its head. They accept a very high percentage of qualified students with the full knowledge that only a minority will end up attending. But with a higher acceptance rate, they actually end up with a freshman class with higher stats than if they had a lower acceptance rate and pushed away potential applicants who had good stats. In other words, they get better students applying on average than they might otherwise.  [/quote]

Smart and humane.  More colleges should do this.  With USNews having dropped yield, there's not much to lose.  So grateful to schools like this for welcoming students there.[/quote]

Please share with us your plan to have Stanford reduce yield.

There’s nothing magical about Pitt, it’s a very fine school.

But it has comparative advantages other schools can’t duplicate:

- State flagship is very expensive even in-state for a public school.

- Located in a safe big city with many pro sports and cultural attractions.

- Lots of merit aid for out of state students.

- Next door to a premier engineering and arts school, there are a ton of college kids around.

- Within a 5 hour drive of a much wealthier metro area (that’s us).

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According to several PPs, a lot of merit aid for OOS students has recently dried up.  [/quote]

+1  the DMV merit has switched to financial aid for in-state students. Pitt is still great for premed and other pre-health people.[/quote]

My 2021 DMV HS grad is at Pitt with $15k merit per year.  My understanding is last year's grads got $20k merit.  It hasn't all dried up, there's still LOTS available[/quote]

Would you mind sharing stats and major?[/quote]

Went in undecided.  Strong Humanities kid, 35 ACT, 4.6 wgpa, Strong ECs.  She loves being there[/quote]

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