University of Pittsburgh Economics Graduate School Admission Results

Those who were waitlisted for funding, and had a zoom call with the graduate coordinator, have you heard back? It's been more than 2 weeks for me and no word.

Ignore WL! Anyone has a funded offer from them? Would you mind sharing how much is it?

Didn't submit gre scores. GPA is grad. Waitlisted for funding.

3a / 7r / 12p

Emailed the department. Offical "rejection" letter will go out later in the spring.

On a short waitlist for getting funding.

Email with letter of acceptance/ waitlist for funding. mentioned that all funded offers have been extended

Email from dept. On a short waitlist for getting funding.

Notified via email.

Got email from Graduate Studies Co-ordinator

Email from the graduate director. GPA is complicated.

I got the weird email too and then got this follow up: "This is the Admissions Team in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Please forgive the inconvenience, but you may have recently received an email from our School with advisor information in error! If you have received this email you may simply delete it – there is no need to respond! Thank you for you understanding, and again I apologize for the inconvenience. Sincerely, Wes Lipschultz, Senior Director of Student and Academic Affairs & SCI Student Services Team "

TPB: I received the same email, I think it is a spam. I did not click on the links.

Ignore WL. Did anyone get a very random/incomplete email from School of Computing and Information regarding PhD in Economics (acceptance mail)?

Thank you for applying to the Ph.D. graduate program in Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. We regret to inform you that we cannot grant you admission to our program at this time. This year we had an especially competitive field of applicants. The Admissions Committee did its best to select a small group of people who will benefit from and contribute to the department and the university. Our decision on your application in no way reflects your ability to be successful in your academic pursuits, but rather that the choices this year were particularly difficult. To provide some context, there were over 400 applications for an incoming cohort of 5 students. Notifications are going out later this year, to students who did not inquire with us earlier, due to admissions season finishing much later than usual. The Department of Economics offers a professional STEM degree, the Master of Science in Quantitative Economics (MQE), which is at the intersection of economics and data science. MQE is still accepting applications for the Fall 2021 student co-hort. If you would like to be considered for this program, please carefully review the program and admission guidelines at MQE.Pitt.edu/admissions and contact Shannon Mischler, the MQE Program Director at MQEInfo@pitt.edu. Thank you again for your interest in our PhD program and for your thoughtful application. Please accept our best wishes as you make your plans for the upcoming year. Sincerely, Daniele Coen-Pirani Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Originally placed on the WL. Pretty disappointed, I think this would have been a great fit.

Emailed for result

TPB: I was also interviewed. Then, emailed them and got to know that I am waitlisted. Attention open house, but I have not heard back yet. Not sure what is happening.