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TJ kids have Avery high admission rate to VT, especially considering most apply to the engineering school.  If Pitts so third rate, what’s your opinion on why they want to go there and not VT?  Because VT is 4th rate? [/quote]

Pitt and VT are very similar for so many things. On paper, they are are almost siblings of each other: demographics (70% white, 10% Asian), rankings are a couple places of each other in many STEM majors. For example, both are solid 3rd-tier CS programs (and 3rd tier is very respectable and in demand; the import of which lessens significantly after the first/second job). Both are a 4 hour drive away from the geo center of FCPS

Given this, Pitt gets the nod because:
1) Pittsburgh v. Blacksburg. Major sports franchises, 2 other major universities, great urban city that's coming back
2) CMU gravity pulls in IT investment. Uber AI is there. Google (Waymo) is there. They are not there in Blacksburg.
3) Several TJ students (i know at least 1) are there for the direct medicine admit 8 year program. The med school is fantastic.
4) CS is a separate school, not part of engineering. They started this 2 or 3 years ago
5) Beautiful campus (VT is also nice)
6) And perhaps the biggest intangible: Pitt is appreciative of TJ and they *show* it. Great merit. Honors admission. They send stuff regularly - letters, data brochures, tchotkes (we even got a Google Cardboard to VR the Pitt campus!). Just like CMU next door (who asked the audience at Tartan Day "who's from TJ? We love you guys! We admit more from y'all than anywhere else"), it feels very good to be wanted. Conversely, we got squat from VT. Not a peep. As far as I know, unlike UVA who did a nice admitted-student briefing in FFX, there was no Hokie reception at all in the area. At least we did not get an invitation.

[b]And unlike the drive south, no confederate flags were seen on the road trip to Pitt.[/b][/quote]

I think this may explain part of the decline in the number of TJ kids applying/attending VT -- nonwhite/non-Christian kids feel more comfortable in places other than Blacksburg.[/quote][/quote]

Says someone who has never been to Blacksburg. [b] Tech is an oasis of intellect and inclusion in SW VA.[/b]  Not unlike Penn State in PA.

It is worth noting that Pitt offers enough merit aid so that Pitt is often cheaper.  Also, they have rolling admissions....So students might be accepted before they even apply to Tech.[/quote]

+1.

Apart from VT (and VT-affiliated business like Carillion Hospital), SW Virginia is very, very Southern and full of people who still fly the confederate flag outside their houses.[/quote]

Yes, but so is Western PA outside of State College and Pittsburgh.[/quote]

Pittsburgh is a WAY, WAY bigger city than Blacksburg, though. [/quote]

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