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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pitt is over hyped in these circles[/quote]

Disagree. Fantastic school - especially after the massive donation from Dietrich ($125 million to college of arts and sciences). If anything, DCUM underrates it as an easy early acceptance.

It hits the sweet spot for many students, re: size, urban with green space and D1 football (hard to find good football in a city school), amazing for pre-med/pre-health, psychology, philosophy (ranked globally), and English. Huge rare languages department. Many small classes - better student-teacher ratio than most publics. And lots of opportunities for internships in the city during the school year. And the students are happy, not depressed/bitter/overstressed from a hyper competitive peer group.[/quote]

This is the lowest ranked school among all the colleges we visited. But we thought it had by far the happiest students of all. So many students turned up on a Saturday morning and they were so enthusiastic. They are doing something right and it basically ticked all our boxes.

Just across the street, when we asked the CMU tour guide, why he chose CMU, he told us "because I could not get into a better college". But he is seemed quite fine and not depressed in any way. No dig on CMU.

Happy that child was admitted and just learned that they offered $80k merit aid over 4 years.

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