Denied, hoping for reconsideration

Colleges & Universities University of Pittsburgh
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<p>Your GPA and your ACT are actually holding you back. For the freshman class of 2011, 83% of those offered admission had a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher. Only 10% had a GPA between 3.25 and 3.49. </p>

<p>Of those same freshman offered admission, 91% of them had an ACT superscore of 24+. I know many here said to aim for a 25, but that is barely above the 24+ cutoff, and the bottom 25th percentile of applications had a 25 on their composite ACT. I’m sure this was balanced out by <em>many</em> things like a super high GPA plus recs and activities.</p>

<p>Bottom line: You need to either increase your ACT a lot and your GPA marginally, or your GPA a lot and your ACT marginally. Only increasing your ACT won’t help your chances of admission much.</p>

<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.ir.pitt.edu/cds/documents/CDS2010-11PittsburghCampus.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ir.pitt.edu/cds/documents/CDS2010-11PittsburghCampus.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;