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Hello, just had my interview recently. I vaguely recall them saying that our portal status should change to "awaiting decision" following our interview and to contact them if that fails to change, did any of the other interviewees recall this?

Yes. Mine changed the evening after the interview.

Awesome, thanks for letting me know. I'll email the admissions committee to get it fixed. I was also wondering if once that happens, that an option for submitting a thank you note will appear? I currently don't see it in my portal.

Yes, it's a part of the post-interview survey

anyone else get a Commitment to Active Learning and In-Person Engagement form post interview

Hi All,

I have a Pitt interview this week. I wanted to see if anyone could share their experience or had any advice.

Thanks

Does anyone know what to do if you didn't write down the name of your interviewer here? I don't know how to address my thank you letter without the correct spelling of their name.

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I googled what I could remember of their name until I found them on the Pitt directory.

Does anyone know what date Pitt will be releasing their admission decisions? I don't think it was specifically mentioned during my interview.

Usually, they are sent out all at once in January or February, but someone on the admissions committee did mention during my interview day that they are hoping (only hoping - no concrete plans yet) to release decisions at multiple dates. I did also hear from people at Pitt that things are behind schedule this year though, so there really is no telling what they will do this year - best thing to do is probably just keep it out of your mind until something happens!

Thank you!

My portal all of a sudden now has 2 options for sending updates. I remember them saying during the interview that applicants can submit one update prior to decision, and then waitlisted applicants can submit another update after receiving decision. Does this mean that I got waitlisted?

What is the other option now?

It's just an option to submit an applicant update

I am not sure about others but I have seen the option to submit two updates since the day of my interview (maybe beforehand, but I didn't check the portal). So I doubt it means anything at all--I'm sure I wasn't waitlisted a few minutes after my interviews lol

does anyone's portal NOT have a option to submit 2 updates? Interviewed or not?

Like two separate lines for it? Mine has only one line for updates and also says "display" and "submit new" on that line since I've submitted one.

Do you still have the yellow "it's possible at Pitt" section in your portal?

this is what mine is. Have you interviewed and waiting for decision?

Nope, no II

Makes sense. Did you get the PCAT thing, and do you still have the yellow box? Idk what Pitt is doing with their portal and emails lol

Didn't get PCAT, do have yellow box. Hbu?

Yes for both here

PSA: unless you got an email that you have been invited to interview, or it explicitly says so on the portal, then you have not been invited to interview. Yellow box, PCAT emails, whatever — don't mean anything.

Is this school receptive to pre-II update letters?

for those that have submitted an update, does it show in the portal that you have already submitted one?, because I thought I did but i dont see anything showing I did

Yes, a green checkmark.

okay I dont see that do you think its worth resubmitting?

Yes, if you don't have one it prob didn't submit successfully.

okay great thanks so much for your help

If you interviewed, what was your experience like?

I was really looking forward to my interview, but both of my interviewers seemed disinterested in my application. I tried asking my faculty interviewer why he chose to specialize in said field to spark conversation, and he quite literally told me it was because he wasn't interested in any other specialty and sort of "defaulted" into it. No further explanation. I understand interviewers are incredibly busy and may have interviewing prospective students at the bottom of their priority list, but it's also incredibly heartbreaking to feel like a nuisance during an already stressful process.

I'm hoping others had better experiences and can help me change my impression of UPCOM.

I personally had a pretty good experience with my interviewers but I've also heard from others that interviewed here that their experiences varied heavily - I will also say that there is a pretty rigid structure with these interviews (there are 5 or so questions the interviewers are required to ask you, despite them trying to emphasize that they want it to just be a "comfortable conversation") so that might be why you felt like they were not as specifically interested in your application (while the rest of their attitude towards you probably really has no justification and I'm sorry to hear that).

Now if you wanted to have a reason to be excited about Pitt outside of the whole T20 and great research thing, I will tell you as someone who went to undergrad in Pittsburgh and has many friends currently at Pitt Med that the school and most people in it are definitely very invested in your success. Past and current students have told me over and over how positive their experience has been with other students and faculty alike, and unfortunately I think some of the interviewers just happened to be people who don't represent that culture as well as they probably should have.

They really are a great institution on paper and by reputation so I was hoping that would have been reflected in the interview experience. I was told at the beginning of both of my interviews that they would be somewhat structured because they had to hit certain mandatory questions, but I felt like outside of those questions, there was no genuine conversation—no matter how hard I tried. But yeah, like you said, I probably just got unlucky with interviewers who didn't reflect the culture at UPSOM.

Anyhow, I'm glad you had a good experience with your interviews! It's great to hear you have concrete anecdotes from people you know who feel like the overall support, education, and experience at UPSOM are positive. As an OOS applicant, it was hard to find online dialogue for others' experiences at UPSOM, so I really appreciate it.

I've had this exact experience with other schools, take it as God telling you He has smth greater in store

Did anyone else who got accepted get a merit scholarship in their decision letter?

How much did you get?

anyone else who got accepted not get the phone call from the dean that ppl on sdn r talking about?

For people who got accepted, how long did your portal say "awaiting decision" before you got the acceptance?

Does Pitt realize that only accepting the top applicants who have 10+ interviews/acceptances from T20s (some which offer way more financial aid than Pitt) is not the best for their yield? They're going to have to accept 300+ people to have a class of 150 with the low yield they're gonna get.

The seats will be filled eventually. Why not try to fill as many of them with the creme de la creme, the best of the best, the pinnacle of premed sweats?

All power to them, just save a seat for me!

I only see one so far, my secondary app is “under review”

I had a similar experience where the interview felt very robotic and like a question and answer (follow up was I agree and I like that you did that).

Student interview felt more relaxed but the faculty interview went guns blazing. No tell me about you or anything and just straight into hard hitting questions

I don’t know how to personalize my thank you notes because I was the only one talking and I had no information about them as a person or their own experiences

To be fair, I looked underprepared for many of the questions from the faculty interview

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Ngl I only got into one other place and pitt is gonna be my top place regardless of other results, I think realistically many ppl r gonna prioritize pitt, fire tv show too🔥🔥🔥

bruh, don't say that, pitt is my top choice and pittsburgh is my home, and i'm worried now that I won't get in. I still haven't gotten in anywhere else either. If the tv show is the reason pitt gets a high yield, i'm gonna crash out

This is how I felt about my Pritzker interview. My faculty interviewer was seemingly disinterested, it felt like we weren't on the same page. Sometimes you just don't vibe interviewers and that's just the luck of the draw. I will say that's the only negative experience I've had throughout my cycle so far. Other shortcomings are my own.

Do all applicants that have interviewed here and are waiting for a decision now see a new "Thank you for interviewing with us!" banner on their portal?

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