Wait-listed @ main. Not thrilled but ok bc it wasn’t #1 choice and thankfully happy with other schools’ acceptances. My parents want me to wait to commit til I hear from Pitt, tho. Thinking I’m going to make my own call on this one, but will ask, to help make them understand that I don’t want to wait: What are chances of getting in and when do they notify by?
@alexeles, Wait-listed applicants should hear back on or before June 1st. As for your chances, I can’t really speak to that. Decisions on individual applications are up to the Admissions Committee.
Best of luck!
-A Pitt Admissions Staffer
Hi @hailtopitt1787. I sent mid-year grades 3 weeks ago. Followed up recently and was advised my file was being reviewed and that I would receive a letter in 2 or 3 more weeks. Since there was no mention of the possibility of first receiving a congratulatory email, and considering my grades will have been in my file for 5 or 6 weeks (as opposed to 3 to 4), I am assuming that a decision might already have been made and the letter I will receive will be a rejection? Does Pitt send out a mass mailing of rejection letters at given intervals or singularly immediately after rejecting an application? Thanks!
This is our first term using the admissions email, so everyone is used to saying letter! Don’t read too much into that, I am sure they did not intend to make you believe a specific decision was made when they used that word. 
The decision could take some time as you were told, but whoever you spoke to would have been able to look directly in your file and predict fairly accurately when you will hear back from us.
Hope that helps!
Best of luck,
A Pitt Admissions Staffer
Ugh! Nerve racking! Thank you for your reply and quick response! Relieved a bit . . . for now!
I paid my deposit, but I still haven’t received information about Pittstart or my student ID. Who should I contact?
@Packrat5000, The PittStart invitation is ready to go but has not been sent quite yet. Your ID number will be included in the email invitation and you should receive that within a few days (by next week at the latest). Let me know if you have any other questions.
-A Pitt Admissions Staffer
I applied on January 28 (late, I know, I applied on a bit of a whim) and haven’t heard back yet. This is the last school I’m waiting to hear from before making a decision to commit to a school, does anyone have any idea of when I might hear back with an admissions decision?
@allyalyoxenfree, You should hear back fairly soon. 4-6 weeks is not an uncommon amount of time to wait for a decision.
-A Pitt Admissions Staffer
Waitlisted for main, “guaranteed” Spring admission. Surprised, but that’s life. Not sure what to do. Love Pitt; have other offers seriously considering. Not an option to stay home and go to CC for fall semester - love my life but I’m ready to go! Disheartened that my decision-making process has to continue. It’s been pretty exhausting! Anyone have insight as to good options in this situation? I know I should just go where I’ve been accepted, but how do I know what the right decision is? And, if I decide to wait, what do I do with myself that doesn’t involve living at home, taking local classes till Jan? If someone tells me “You’ll be great anywhere!” in a perky voice one more time, I’m not sure what I’ll do haha
You would start in January instead of end of August, 4 months, maybe work, travel, volunteer?
FYI…D Accepted to Dietrich after applying to business…no email, but snail mail offer of wait list business or accept to A&S. Can apply to business school later fairly easily with decent grades. Was deferred about a month after applying last summer…they wanted semester grades. Got letter about 10 days after school sent transcript.
OOS Nothern Va
SAT 590M,580V,600W
ACT 25
3.6uw, 3.8+ w
Lots of EC
8 APs
Accepted today with a really neat video! Pretty excited!
**Decision: Accepted 
**
Objective:
ACT (breakdown): 31
SAT II (place score in parentheses): bio (760), chem (760), math (770)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parentheses): bio (5) english lang (5) physics (5), am history (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Enviro, AP French, AP Stats AP English,
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): a bit of volunteering, nothing special
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community Service: bit of volunteering over last 3 years
Summer Activities: none
Essays: personal reflection on travel
Teacher Recommendations: no idea
Counselor Rec: no idea
Interview: none
How much interest did you express? none. personal visit - the admissions folks have no way of tracking
Other
Applied for Financial Aid? yes
How much merit aid did you get? 10k/year
Major you put down: bio / Dietrich
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: large public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: female
Income Bracket: high
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Reflection
Strengths: lots of AP, Honors
Weaknesses: middle of the road GPA, ACT
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/waitlisted/rejected: no idea. was pleasantly surprised
Where else you are applying or have already applied: waiting on fin$ from Pitt. waitlist at WashU
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight:
Never posted here, but was accepted to the Johnstown campus in February. 2.8 GPA, 2000 SAT, 1 AP, decent ECs, great essays. African-American male from a nationally-ranked public high school in New Jersey.
Eliminated Pitt as a choice altogether, but Johnstown still thinks I want to attend their school. Fat chance! At best, it is a 2 star school (out of 5). They even assume that I’m going to them! Quite a bit insulting that such an academically poor school that is located in an abandoned, depressed old steel mill town would assume that someone like me is enrolling at their school. As if I don’t have much better choices?
@lbad96 Wow man, really? Enough with the hate! You applied to Pitt and they offered you acceptance at their Johnstown campus. If you don’t want to go there politely say “no thank you”, formally decline acceptance, and move on.
@univin2015 no hatred on my end. I can’t even formally decline acceptance until I have heard back from everywhere, probably! They didn’t even tell me how to decline an acceptance. Not only that, they keep on sending me mail saying that I need to sign up for the Selective Service on FAFSA when I already did (and a couple of schools have already given me fantastic aid). What a waste.
2190 SAT/33ACT. Ranked 8 out of ~500. 4.7 weighted/4.0 unweighted. Total of 8 AP classes during JR/SR years. Accepted into Honors College. Dietrich School. $5K merit money. No offer of Chancellor’s scholarship. Offered a different scholarship which she did not win. Classmate with lower SAT but higher class rank won the “different scholarship”.
Do you realize why the branch campuses exist? Not every student has the stats to be accepted to the main campus or they can’t afford tuition and another $10k for room and board. So they might be able to commute to a branch campus, get a 4yr degree and save money. I just read a success story about a girl who didn’t have the highest stats in high school, but worked hard and commuted to Pitt Titusville, did two years prepharmacy and then was accepted to three year pharmacy program at LECOM. In five years she can become a pharmd. She had supportive faculty and small class sizes at her school which helped her succeed.
College is what you make of it.
Consider yourself fortunate that you have several options.
And we might be from a small, rural town in PA (some might call it depressed), but my daughter still managed to do very well in high school because she worked hard.
@apittparent, are you talking about the Stamps Scholarship? My daughter also didn’t receive this scholarship, but I think the main criteria there was leadership, not stats, although you had to have a minimum gpa and sat.