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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I was a PA resident, I would be pissed that our state school was recruiting and sending merit money OOS.  But hey— I’m not, so bring it on. [/quote]

PA resident here. My dd wants a small school as well as a school that not a lot of her classmates are attending so she isn’t even applying to Pitt. But many of her classmates have multiple relatives who are Pitt alum and grew up planning to attend. These are smart kids who have a 3.6 or a 3.7 but are getting rejected from Pitt. Of course, they could go to one of the satellite campuses but they want to be in Oakland. They aren’t TJ caliber but several years ago they would have gotten into Pitt main campus. [/quote]

Well, my kid can't get into Columbia, my alma mater, either.  Times change.[/quote]

I get that but Columbia is private, not public. You have a choice whether or not to donate to your alma mater. Pitt is a public school. My alma mater is another big 10 that prioritizes full pay international students over the instate kids of taxpayers. There is a difference between private and public schools. I understand that pretty much all schools are harder to get in now than they were even 5 years ago but it doesn’t make it easier for people who want to attend an in state school.[/quote]

Well, tell that to the legislature, who have cut funding time and again.  Silly to blame it on the highly qualified OOS students, who are pretty much funding the place.[/quote] I thought, from the previous posts, that all of the qualified OOS students are getting full rides.   I guess maybe that was a lie.[/quote]

There is a difference between qualified and highly qualified and off the charts qualified.  TJ literally has the most qualified kids in the nation in STEM.  And they are getting full tuition. I would imagine Blair kids are as well.  Pitt seems to be targeting very highly qualified kids to get the talent to make a move in rankings.   That doesn’t mean every high stats kid is. It’s based on the experiences of the kids at the top STEM school in the country who get an amazingly rigorous, highly specialized education. . Not every good student. [/quote]
So then how many if any T.J. students who just graduated will attend Pitt with no tuition or room/board?  I think 0. 
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