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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PP saying yield protection I have to say I doubt it.  The thing about Pitt is that it does not yield protect. It knows it is a safety for many so admits students it wants based on fairly objective measures and knows there are a lot that will go elsewhere. They give merit as a recruiting tool but it seems like less each year as it’s popularity goes up.

Does anyone know if they overenrolled this past year?

DD was admitted with small merit and we are from DC so, with DCTAG of 10K/year, it was our most affordable option at around $35K/year.  DD is at a private with merit at we are paying roughly 62K/year for tuition, room and board.  [/quote]

Pitt obviously doesn’t yield protect in admissions decisions; however, my understanding is that they are very strategic in distribution of merit. Those dollars are a limited resource they can deploy for students they want + think are at least somewhat likely to attend.

Our high school has had ~100 applicants to Pitt each of the last two years, with 60-70 admitted and 5-7 attending each year. (By comparison, UVM—another popular likely at our HS—has about double the yield rate.) Given those numbers, I suspect they are offering merit to a relatively small number of kids from our school this early. My understanding is that they keep kids in the merit pool and consider them repeatedly over months.[/quote]

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