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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is weird how it became a safety school for the DCUM crowd. It is legitimately a very good school, but it's a bit sad that DCUM treats it as the fallback whereas a lot of in-state kids now get denied. [/quote]

PP. It's not weird.  Pitt is particularly well-aligned with what MoCo public school parents want for their kids, values-wise.  And it has been.  I went to MCPS as a kid but went to high school in Western PA.  I had MCPS friends at Pitt.  There are also MCPS kids at PSU main campus.

Pitt is a reasonably good value for OOS, particularly if scholarships bring down the cost.  A lot of kids want to leave home for college so UMD-CP doesn't appeal to them.  Pitt is pretty close geographically but definitely far enough to give a "went away for college" experience.  The Pitt holiday buses go to Montgomery Mall.  That should tell you something about where the students come from.

https://www.pts.pitt.edu/mobility/shuttle-services/buses-home
 
For Virginians, the picture is a bit different because of the strength of VT.  But VT can be hard to get into and it's in a non-urban setting.  I doubt Pitt interacts too much with W&M or UVA.

DCUM parents are highly educated.  There is nothing weird about convergent thinking on the advantages of Pitt.  Because they are real.  Geographic proximity is obviously a factor.  If this were a Bay Area forum it would be different.[/quote]

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