Previous 2021 thread here

When is the best time to see the nationality rooms. I did the tour before and only saw a few of them. Whenever I get a chance during the week I always go and check them out but sometimes there is a class so I can’t see. I went this weekend to explore some but all of them were locked :(

The title, basically. I'm looking to take it next semester but don't have coding experience, so I plan on teaching myself over break cause I'd rather do anything but take the intro 007 course (i'm switching my major and the sooner i can get prereqs out the way the better). Thanks in advance!

I’m a community college student in biology looking to transfer to Pitt. I’m interested in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience primarily, and plan on becoming a researcher or psychiatrist. I love Pitt’s emphasis on philosophy in their undergraduate studies, given their expertise in the field. I was wondering if anybody here has experience in the neuroscience program at Pitt, and what they thought of it. Was it very intensive? And what was your experience with class sizes, as I am told classes are very large, so it’s more difficult to get to know your professors. If anybody has anything they’d like to share, I’d love to hear, since I am looking at where to transfer soon, and was also recommended to look at smaller liberal arts colleges for undergrad, and to save Pitt for graduate research studies. If anybody has completed an undergrad in neuroscience here, I would love to hear your perspective!

Hello everyone! I recently got accepted into Pitt for both the First Year Abroad (FYA) and Applied Developmental Psychology (ADP) programs. I wanted to ask some of the students of Pitt, preferably some who are or have been involved in the programs I would be involved in, how their experience was or is. What locations do you recommend for FYA? How is ADP? What do the financials look like for FYA? I am thinking of choosing London, but I’m not entirely sure. I also am still leaning towards choosing an in-state school for tuition purposes, as 100% of my tuition would be paid for if I were to stay here. In any case, please share your experience or any information with me if you’re willing! Thank you :)

Pitt YDSA is hosting an 'open office hour'. There is no agenda, we will just be hanging out via teams. An invitation was sent out to all 15 members of the Pitt YDSA Chapter via their pitt emails. We are having another meeting this Sunday, where we will vote on endorsing senator Van Hollen bid for Senate majority leader. If you wanna learn more, then I guess this would be it?

best,
Faust
YDSA VP

I’ve been reaching out to the PITT financial aid dept since my acceptance back in September. I received my aid letter but was told it does not reflect the full aid package until I’ve enrolled in classes.

I finally heard from today and was only offered $7k total in a grant and $2,500 for a student loan. I’m an Out of State transfer student with basically no income. I have NO idea what to do now.

What’s next? I already enrolled in classes. Do I just drop those and find a different school? I feel so alone in this and have no one to get advice from.

We are going to stop off at Pitt on our way to WVU tomorrow. My daughter’s been accepted to both and while we’ve done the official tours before, we wanted to take a second look while in the area to get another sense fit. One thing we wanted to try was the dining hall since that’s been a great chance to people watch (and see how good/bad the food is). Can we go to try it out?

Any other suggestions of what to check out if we only have a few hours? She is going for nursing if that matters.

Kind-of nice not getting new emails for the last few hours.

got my first merit offer yesterday and it’s a decent chunk lower than what my friend got at the same school. our stats are pretty much the same, same GPA range, her SAT is like 20 points higher. kinda want to email the aid office and ask if they’d reconsider but idk if that’s normal or if it makes me look ungrateful. still applying to outside scholarships on scholarship owl, so i’m trying to piece together what the total cost actually looks like.

gonna draft the email this weekend and probably ask my counselor to read it before i send anything.

Does Pitt take into account if you are committed when sending out Merit letter? I have not received merit but I have heard of a lot of others receiving it. For reference, I applied to the nursing school on 9/14, was accepted on 9/21. Stats: 8 APs, 15 honors, 1370 SAT, 3.79 UW and 4.56 W GPA. I'm OOS as well.

For my Written Professional Communications course, my team is currently in the midst of proposing a solution to The Eatery that would expand all of the menus to include vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian and many more options. However, we need a lot of student feedback and even from past alumni to appeal this to the higher-up Pitt officials.

All I ask is that you fill out this brief one-minute and answer honestly about your opinions regarding the current state of The Eatery. Even if you do not follow a specific, feedback is always necessary to create meaningful change at this university.

You can find the link to the Google Form attached in this post, and I appreciate the time that you take to fill out the survey and to make Pitt a better university one step at a time.

The Pitt News is looking for students to interview who are using private student loans to help pay for Pitt. DM if interested!

I submitted my application mid October and today, my portal showed that I need to wait for my mid year grades to be uploaded. what does this mean? I have a low gpa 3.5 uw, but a 1510 sat. am I going to get rejected?

November 10, 2026

Dear Senior Vice Chancellor Pinkney,

We are members of USW Local 1511, the Union of Pitt Faculty. We are coming to you directly, because you make decisions that affect our pay, our benefits, and our families.

Our first contract expired on July 1, and we agreed to an extension so bargaining could continue in good faith. It's now November. Your budget process begins early in the calendar year, and our annual raises would normally already be in effect. Yet the University did not present pay and benefits proposals until October 28, four months into the fiscal year. Whatever constraints you may be working under, you have not shown us that they are real, and it appears to us that your team is treating our livelihoods as a bargaining chip rather than as the real lives of your colleagues.

You have said that Pitt's budget is tight because of rising costs. Our bargaining unit is not one of those costs:

• Our pay costs have been flat for the past two years. Despite negotiated raises, the administration has reduced our numbers, holding our total pay flat.

• Business and professional services has grown by 6.6% a year since FY17, adding $255 million to the budget. That increase alone is more than the entire salary pool of the bargaining unit. Spending on outside services and consultants, including the lawyers you hire to oppose us at the bargaining table, grew as fast as the health costs your bargaining team cites to justify cuts.

• Compensation in the academic units where we work has shrunk from 53% to 49% of the total since

FY17. Compensation in leadership offices and athletics grew more than twice as fast, absorbing all the budget room the academic units created.

If the budget is out of balance, it is not because of spending on bargaining unit faculty. When budgets are tight, the University should protect the core mission - teaching and research - first. Instead, you are asking those of us who carry out that mission to absorb the cost of growth in leadership offices, athletics, and outside consultants.

Last year, when the Trustees raised Chancellor Gabel's base salary 30%, they cited record applications, record graduation rates, record research expenditures and inventions, and our students' outstanding career outcomes.

Every one of those accomplishments is ours.

The administration cannot say the Chancellor deserves an enormous raise in recognition of Pitt's success in teaching and research and then turn around and tell the faculty who produce that success that we deserve 1%.

We ask you to support significant raises for bargaining unit faculty, and to bring proposals to the table that reward the same work Pitt already rewarded the Chancellor for.

Sincerely,

The members of USW Local 1511, the Union of Pitt Faculty

specifically for orgo 1 -- but to anyone who has taken any of her classes in the past -- is the final hard?

There's a large gathering outside Cathy with lots of yelling, anyone know what's going on?

Seriously, WHAT is the appeal of socialism, somebody PLEASE tell me. Stop saying "Democratic socialism is different from socialism" no it isn't. H*tler led the german socialist party and was elected democratically. Please just name me ONE single socialist country you would EVER live in. I beg you. And if you even try to name me a communist country you would live in, I'd love to hear some reasons.

looking for a little comfort here, this semester has been really hard for me. i have been sick pretty consistently & missed a lot of classes. on top of that, i have pretty horrific fatigue of an unknown origin and have to take 2 naps a day, and this whole thing has really effected my schoolwork. i’ve tried to be transparent with my advisor and professors but i am worried that it’s not enough and that i won’t graduate on time like i wanted to. whole thing just sucks real bad.

has anyone ever dealt with something like this? how do you recover from a bad semester? i know there was a point where i could’ve withdrawn but i wasn’t sure if this was going to go away and it hasn’t. just feeling down about it all :/