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[pumpingfe]

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I don't even think decisions will come out today...I'll be the devil's advocate on this one. Sorry everyone.

Starting to agree with you here 🙁

BUT LAST YEAR WAS 4:30 PM!......

 

[cuttlefish_deluxe91]

Starting to agree with you here 🙁

BUT LAST YEAR WAS 4:30 PM!......

Yes but was that central or eastern time? (/s)

 

[MarineMDHopeful]

Me at my desk at work.

 

[neuroresearchguy23]

 

[scienceguy95]

It’s going to be today at 4:30 friends!

Source: My gut.

 

[MarineMDHopeful]

Yup

 

[14beichar]

I bet they release decisions at the end of the day so they don’t have to field our annoying calls all day long.

 

[fluffystitch626]

I bet they release decisions at the end of the day so they don’t have to field our annoying calls all day long.

LOL agreed...and the Admissions Office just so happens to close at 4:30 PM 😏😏

 

[liquidcrawler]

Pitt adcoms when they walk into this thread... (link)

 

[MarineMDHopeful]

Pitt adcoms when they walk into this thread... (link)

I laughed way too hard at this.

 

[trippleengineer]

I was 99% sure that was what the link would be, and thank you for not letting me down.

 

[neuroresearchguy23]

omg that’s great.


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[santanamarrrrr]

guess decisions won't be released today

 

[neuroresearchguy23]

so... tomorrow's the day?

 

[trippleengineer]

so... tomorrow's the day?

I think given that last year they were released on time and this year they were not released today, Wednesday is a more likely candidate.

 

[Manzielf]

Without the financial aid message, I jut want the wait to end

 

[scienceguy95]

Yeah seems like Wednesday will be the big day. Although if these financial aid updates are truly predictive then I don’t understand why they don’t just release the decisions already...

 

[MarineMDHopeful]

Yeah seems like Wednesday will be the big day. Although if these financial aid updates are truly predictive then I don’t understand why they don’t just release the decisions already...

The only reasons I could think of is that either:
A. The update isn't predictive and just random.
Or
B. That if they are predictive maybe they haven't filled the entire class and there are some stragglers.

 

[lovehate]

For everyone without a financial aid status (including myself)

At least I hope so!

 

[14beichar]

Has Pitt ever released decisions early on a non-Monday/Friday, like tomorrow?

 

[neuroresearchguy23]

Quick look at some of the prior years:

1/31/2014 - Fri
1/29/2015 - Thur
1/28/2016 - Thur
1/30/2017 - Mon

So definitely possible to be a non-monday/friday but probably gonna be Wednesday..

 

[fingerscrossed14]

At my interview someone from admissions said they were aiming for Friday before the 31st (and subsequently told us not to post this to SDN ) but it’s already past that day so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[14beichar]

At my interview someone from admissions said they were aiming for Friday before the 31st (and subsequently told us not to post this to SDN ) but it’s already past that day so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You the real hero

 

[fingerscrossed14]

You the real hero

*financial aid message disappears* dammit I shouldn’t have said anything

 

[14beichar]

Quick look at some of the prior years:

1/31/2014 - Fri
1/29/2015 - Thur
1/28/2016 - Thur
1/30/2017 - Mon

So definitely possible to be a non-monday/friday but probably gonna be Wednesday..

Nice work detective! I agree, but it could be tomorrow....therefore, I will be on edge tomorrow.

 

[neuroresearchguy23]

Nice work detective! I agree, but it could be tomorrow....therefore, I will be on edge tomorrow.

Agreed.


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[14beichar]

Does anyone recall the total #of acceptances Pitt makes?

I know that 150 + ~112 (last year from WL) = 262; but I thought they accepted more.

 

[Avada Cadaver]

Not sure if anyone's taken a look at this but it details the admissions process and how the adcom at Pitt even works to the selection of accepted, waitlists etc.. It's pretty interesting.

Scroll down to section E (Admissions Committee Procedures):

http://www.medadmissions.pitt.edu/application-process/documents/UPSOM_BYLAWS_approved_1_26_2018_.pdf

Interesting excerpt:

The Associate Dean will regularly provide the Committee with reports on outcomes of each class matriculated (never distinguishing individual students such that the student could be identified) to identify features of applications that are associated with risk of failures, including unprofessional behavior in medical school, as well as features that are associated with success, such as election to the Honor Society, Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) status and recipient of senior awards.

 

[14beichar]

Not sure if anyone's taken a look at this but it details the admissions process and how the adcom at Pitt even works to the selection of accepted, waitlists etc.. It's pretty interesting.

Scroll down to section E (Admissions Committee Procedures):

http://www.medadmissions.pitt.edu/application-process/documents/UPSOM_BYLAWS_approved_1_26_2018_.pdf

Interesting excerpt:

Reading this was oddly comforting. I feel like it is a little less random of a process and that if it is meant to be, you will be accepted.

 

[pumpingfe]

Putting my tin foil hate on, they could just be teasing their 1st choice applicants to build up excitement to increase the chances of them accepting admittance.

I don't think adcoms are this mean LOL.

 

[legalizeranch123]

Does anyone recall the total #of acceptances Pitt makes?

I know that 150 + ~112 (last year from WL) = 262; but I thought they accepted more.

From a spreadsheet of IS/OOS acceptance rate data from last years USNWR, 847 interviews yielded 359 total acceptances. Not sure how many are from acceptances after waitlist but my gut tells me they have to let in more than their class size in their first wave of acceptances!

 

[pumpingfe]

Guys today could be the day.

#allaboardthehypetrain

 

[Quarterhorse]

Guys today could be the day.

#allaboardthehypetrain

The website did say the 30th ...

 

[neuroresearchguy23]

That’s what I was thinking..


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[Dr. Stalker]

DECISIONS ARE UP!!!!!!!!!!
Waitlist.

Info:
Early interview, no FAFSA update (have yet to submit it though).

 

[donutzebra]

Waitlisted, but no information about tier 1 or 2.

 

[Dr. Stalker]

Waitlisted, but no information about tier 1 or 2.

No indication of tier 1 or tier 2 either.

 

[MarineMDHopeful]

Whoooooooo first official acceptance on the thread for those of you next year looking

 

[fingerscrossed14]

Ahhhh accepted!! I never got an email though. I did get the financial aid status

 

[VoxPopuli93]

also waitlisted, anyone get outright rejected? or do they just have a 600 person waitlist?

Did the financial aid packet seem indicative?

 

[Quarterhorse]

Accepted!!!

 

[spotted_drum]

Waitlist

 

[Dr. Stalker]

Accepted!!!

did you have the financial aid update?

 

[Quarterhorse]

did you have the financial aid update?

Yes

 

[docr3]

Accepted !! Had the financial aid message on my portal!

 

[namaste7]

ah **** waitlisted 🙁 didn't get the financial aid status.

 

[Dr. Stalker]

Yes

Thank you, congratulations!

 

[Quarterhorse]

Looks so far like a 1:1 correlation between acceptance and the financial aid message ...

 

[hokie15]

ACCEPTED!!!!! Did have financial aid message

 

[scienceguy95]

Accepted!! Had the financial aid update last week.