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brickram said:
So how do we find out about our decision? Is it an email that tells us to check the portal for a status update? Or is the email the decision itself?
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The decision is only in the portal, they send out an email telling you to check the portal.
 
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smcclaine said:
Decision is given in an email. They also send a physical letter, but the email will come first.
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So what you're saying is that frantically refreshing the portal is pointless since the email will come simultaneously or even earlier anyway??

lol
 
OperationBagration said:
So what you're saying is that frantically refreshing the portal is pointless since the email will come simultaneously or even earlier anyway??

lol
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No I made a mistake, thought I was replying in a different school's thread. I edited my comment haha. But we do get an email once the portal updates, the email just doesn't have your decision in it. However, I think in past years the portal has sometimes been updated slightly before the email went out, so frantically refreshing might save you 15 minutes?
 
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throwaway2020MD said:
It’s already 10 am where is my morning dose of Pitt neuroticism?
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Since it’s already 10 AM I don’t think it’s coming today. Usually the decisions come out in the morning.

Honestly though, I’m just trying to lower my expectations because I don’t wanna get too excited lol
 
I honestly have a feeling it’ll be today. All the wonky portal stuff has already happened (changes in status and people not being able to log in). I hope it’ll be today in the afternoon
 
throwaway2020MD said:
I honestly have a feeling it’ll be today. All the wonky portal stuff has already happened (changes in status and people not being able to log in). I hope it’ll be today in the afternoon
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Man y'all would be great classmates! I'm loving the memes and general humor displayed in the thread. I hope I can be classmates with some of you! For those of us who get in, we should try to organize meeting up at second look or something 🙂

Also for the record when I was casually skimming through past year threads I found a poster who had looked back and documented the notification days of the last 5 years and I just added the one for last year. So I'm not as neurotic as my posts may imply😛
 
Chromium Surfer said:
Man y'all would be great classmates! I'm loving the memes and general humor displayed in the thread. I hope I can be classmates with some of you! For those of us who get in, we should try to organize meeting up at second look or something 🙂

Also for the record when I was casually skimming through past year threads I found a poster who had looked back and documented the notification days of the last 5 years and I just added the one for last year. So I'm not as neurotic as my posts may imply😛
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Honestly I totally agree. Compared to the other top 20 threads, this one is so much more light-hearted and fun haha. I’m so down to meet up with you guys and we should definitely do it at Gauchos.
 
happybday1972 said:
Man, I'm dreading being waitlisted. Pitt is my top choice and if I'm waitlisted the wait will never end ugh
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Don't worry dude. Pitt have a good track record of pulling people out of the WL- it's just a matter of time. If any of us are unfortunately get WL after the first round decision being released, we will start a support group to support each other!
 
happybday1972 said:
Man, I'm dreading being waitlisted. Pitt is my top choice and if I'm waitlisted the wait will never end ugh
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Same here. I’ve been waitlisted everywhere else I’ve received a decision so far. At this point, I feel like if I didn’t get in anywhere else yet, there’s no way I get accepted in the first round of decisions at Pitt.
 
j.elise said:
Same here. I’ve been waitlisted everywhere else I’ve received a decision so far. At this point, I feel like if I didn’t get in anywhere else yet, there’s no way I get accepted in the first round of decisions at Pitt.
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Sending good vibes your way and hoping that you do get in on the first round! 🙂
 
happybday1972 said:
Man, I'm dreading being waitlisted. Pitt is my top choice and if I'm waitlisted the wait will never end ugh
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Christopher_6025 said:
Don't worry dude. Pitt have a good track record of pulling people out of the WL- it's just a matter of time. If any of us are unfortunately get WL after the first round decision being released, we will start a support group to support each other!
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Yeah according to MSAR Pitt pulls about 65 people from the wait list annually. So almost half the class comes from the WL. A lot of people that get into Pitt also have other multiple Top 20 acceptances. They used to specify if you were on first or second tier wait list, and if you were on first tier it usually meant you had a good shot of getting in. Unfortunately I don't think they report the tiers anymore.
 
Anyone know what the IS acceptance is like vs OOS? I know matriculation proportion is probably more IS bc #PAPride, but what about post interview As
 
malmed1025 said:
Anyone know what the IS acceptance is like vs OOS? I know matriculation proportion is probably more IS bc #PAPride, but what about post interview As
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According to this spreadsheet with data collected from USNWR, its about 51% (vs ~48% for OOS), but I think that's overall acceptances, so who knows what the rate is for the first round of decisions.
 
PapayaJambalaya said:
Ok, I'll take your hopes down a notch. Those acceptance rates include those taken off the WL. So, that means the chance of a WL as an initial decision is >50%.
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RoseHathaway said:
Don't get my hopes up, man. Hope is a dangerous thing
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So on my sheet at interview day. For last cycle they had 665 interviews offered and 315 interviews if I remember correctly. According to MSAR they took 65 people from the wait list. But also MSAR is still reporting data for the class of 2018, which had the over enrollment of 162 students, and that is over their targeted class of 149 students. So my back of napkin calculations are as follows:

2017-2018 Cycle: Numbers from US News Spreadsheet + MSAR
Overall acceptance rate ~ 50% (365/739),
Initial Acceptance rate ~40% (300/739)

2018-2019 Cycle: Numbers from Interview Day Paper
Overall acceptance rate ~47% (315/665)
Initial acceptance rate ~38% (250/665) *assumption of taking same amount of people from the wait list, which who actually knows. will have to wait till MSAR is updated again*

So long story short overall odds are about 1/2 getting in post interview with a little over 1/3 getting accepted initially.
 
Chromium Surfer said:
So on my sheet at interview day. For last cycle they had 665 interviews offered and 315 interviews if I remember correctly. According to MSAR they took 65 people from the wait list. But also MSAR is still reporting data for the class of 2018, which had the over enrollment of 162 students, and that is over their targeted class of 149 students. So my back of napkin calculations are as follows:

2017-2018 Cycle: Numbers from US News Spreadsheet + MSAR
Overall acceptance rate ~ 50% (365/739),
Initial Acceptance rate ~40% (300/739)

2018-2019 Cycle: Numbers from Interview Day Paper
Overall acceptance rate ~47% (315/665)
Initial acceptance rate ~38% (250/665) *assumption of taking same amount of people from the wait list, which who actually knows. will have to wait till MSAR is updated again*

So long story short overall odds are about 1/2 getting in post interview with a little over 1/3 getting accepted initially.
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This is the high-quality content I come for! 🙂

Also because I literally can't stop myself from checking in every 5 minutes
 
Stay strong y’all. Even if you don’t get into Pittsburgh I’m confident that you all have bright futures considering how competitive it is to get interviews, especially when considering the caliber of this school and the fact that they intentionally interviewed 100 less people!

Rooting for all of you! 🙂
 
Does anyone know what percent of the incoming class at Pitt is considered "non traditional" (1+ years out of college). I noticed a lot of interviewees at my session had already graduated college so just wondering if those numbers reflected their overall class.
 
brickram said:
Does anyone know what percent of the incoming class at Pitt is considered "non traditional" (1+ years out of college). I noticed a lot of interviewees at my session had already graduated college so just wondering if those numbers reflected their overall class.
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Around half based on the age distribution on MSAR.
 
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