Pitt in NYC

[CrazyPaco]

http://www.pitt.edu/discover/

 

[TTOWN2]

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Nice start....Hopefully our PR people can match/overtake our competitors (UPS) and make significant inroads into targeted future enrollees that others have professed to have done!! Good luck to us!!! HTP/forever!!!

 

[below0w]

Seems as if that might benefit the hoops program more. Nice to see that kind of presence in NYC.

 

[4Mark_Marty]

Pitt is not big enough to compete with PSU. 4000 student undergrad classes won’t compete with more than twice as that in SC, not to mention all the PSU community colleges in the state.

 

[Ray-Ray]

Nice start....Hopefully our PR people can match/overtake our competitors (UPS) and make significant inroads into targeted future enrollees that others have professed to have done!! Good luck to us!!! HTP/forever!!!

Pitt could use more applicants for sure to reduce acceptance percentage., but looking at data comparing actual students enrolled at the two schools, Pitt gets better students in the freshman class than PSU. I have mentioned this before and I do understand using acceptance calculators is not exact. Using the prepscholar calculator for SAT/GPA for incoming Pitt class in the PSU acceptance calculator shows an 84% chance of acceptance to PSU for the average Pitt student. Plugging the incoming PSU class into the Pitt acceptance calculator gives that student an 18% chance of getting into Pitt. There are many other variables for actual acceptance, but just using this data, the difference is striking.
Pitt freshmen class: SAT average is 1340, GPA is 4.0
PSU freshmen class: SAT average is 1260, GPA is 3.6
I would guess GPA includes classes taken that had a 5.0 grading scale such as AP or IB.

 

[Saboteur]

Pitt is not big enough to compete with PSU. 4000 student undergrad classes won’t compete with more than twice as that in SC, not to mention all the PSU community colleges in the state.

Vietnam did a nice job on France and the U.S.
I'm not persuaded by size. Strategy is where battles are won or lost.

 

[4Mark_Marty]

Vietnam did a nice job on France and the U.S.
I'm not persuaded by size. Strategy is where battles are won or lost.

Quality over quantity every day all day. All 3.6 GPAs aren’t created equal. SATs and ACTs don’t lie.

 

[Phil-Va]

Nice start....Hopefully our PR people can match/overtake our competitors (UPS) and make significant inroads into targeted future enrollees that others have professed to have done!! Good luck to us!!! HTP/forever!!![/bnnbnbbnbnbn

 

[Brazillm10]

Vietnam did a nice job on France and the U.S.
I'm not persuaded by size. Strategy is where battles are won or lost.

Pitt's biggest problem is that they are flanked by two of the best recruiters in the country right now. Pat is just not in their league with recruits although he has proven to be capable of beating top quality opponents as a HC.

 

[jtownknowitall]

Seems as if that might benefit the hoops program more. Nice to see that kind of presence in NYC.

Really? I think it's geared to tourists. How effective can it really be?

 

[below0w]

Really? I think it's geared to tourists. How effective can it really be?

In and of itself, it's probably not going to make a tangible impact (ie, you're not going to hear a recruit say he chose Pitt because of a billboard), but as with any marketing, the point is to create a presence in peoples' minds that could have a subconscious effect on their perception. NYC was historically Pitt's bread basket for hoops so it's nice to see the university represented in that area, especially as the program looks to be on the rebound.

 

[SSS811]

Nice. Hopefully this shows the NYC hoops recruits that there are BIGGER and BETTER options than Syracuse.