<p>Just curious as to everyone’s stats for those going into the Swanson School of Engineering. If you could specify your engineering major and briefly describe your stats, as well as whether or not you were offered any money that would be very helpful! Thanks and congrats to everyone!</p>
<p>Accepted into Bioengineering (Offered UHC, Full Tuition, Applied for Chancellor’s Scholarship)
34 ACT
AP 5 (Biology, Chemistry)
AP 4 (English, Gov, USH, Statistics)
800 Chemistry SAT II
790 Math Level II SAT II
4.600 GPA (Top 0.5% of class of 800+ students)
President of two clubs (BPA, Table Tennis), VP of another (Best Buddies), founder of another
Recommendations: Outstanding
Essay: Meh</p>
<p>Still waiting to hear back from UPitt about the Chancellor’s scholarship, but really hoping to be offered an interview!</p>
<p>Accepted into Bioengineering (Offered 15000 in merit money)
1490 out 1600 SAT
AP Chem 4
APUS 4
AP Calc BC 5
800 on Math SAT II
750 on Chemistry SAT II
94.8 out of 100 or 4.0 GPA
Three varsity sports and a few other accolades</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted SSOE
Objective: Mechanical Engineering
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2090: 600 CR, 750 M, 740 W
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 770 M2, 720 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.59
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Statistics, Calc, Physics, Chem.
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: APs and Honors
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National French competition, Science Olympiad, Pres of the Physics club, summer internsips, volunteer work, etc. etc.
[</em>] Home State: MA
[<em>] Demographics: White Male
[</em>] Where else accepted: Rutgers, Virginia Tech.
[<em>] Where else rejected: McGill, UIUC, Purdue.
[</em>] Merit Scholarship: None so far.</p>
<p>Decision: Son accepted at Swanson, Chem Eng’g or Mech Eng’g major
SAT 1: 2190, 730 CR; 770 M; 690 W
ACT: 33
SAT 2: Math 1 750; Math 2 770; Physics 720
Unweighted GPA: 3.92
Not Ranked (upper 10%?)
AP: Calc; Physics
EC’s and Leadership in one socio-cultural organization
Demographics: Asian-american
Where else accepted: Penn State (semi-finalist for Schreyer Honors), Alabama (semi-finalist for Computer Based Honors); waiting on 7 regular decision schools
Where rejected: none so far
Merit scholarship at Pitt- $2000/yr for 4 yrs (we are instate)</p>
<p>We were hoping for more merit money so currently son is thinking of going to Alabama or Penn state depending on acceptance to the Honors Fellowships. </p>
<p>@tweetymommy who writes Where else accepted: Penn State (semi-finalist for Schreyer Honors) …
Did you hear from Schreyer that your son was a Semi-FInalist? How? When? Or are you assuming from another communication (e.g., that he received a Provost award) that he has been bumped into a more select category? Your post is the first we’ve heard of any such “semi-finalist” designation. We (and most other Schreyer applicants, I believe) are waiting to hear on Wednesday, 3/5, about the honors college admissions decision — and it’s a decision that will determine whether Penn State becomes the first choice or not, so it’s of keen interest. Thanks!</p>
<p>Sorry about the finalist thing at Schreyer’s. He was interviewed. I just realized that Schreyer’s doesn’t say who are the finalists. The accepted students will be known next week Wednesday- like you said. But he was a finalist for UA CBHF and I think I got those two mixed up. We are waiting for the results from both since they seem to offer more merit aid and are more attractive programs than what Pitt was offering.</p>
<p>Accepted into bioengineering.
[<em>] SAT I: 2330 (800 CR, 750 M, 780 W); superscore 2350 (800 CR, 750 M, 800 W)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: Chem 740, Math II 760
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/347, last I checked
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry (5), US History (5), Language and Composition (5), World History (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: College Calc (dual enroll through Pitt), College Stats (dual enroll through Pitt), AP English Lit and Comp, Honors Physics, Honors Macroeconomics (required), Honors Spanish IV (dual enroll through LaRoche)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National and regional awards in Scholastic Art & Writing awards
[</em>] Home State: PA
[<em>] Demographics: White Female
[</em>] Where else accepted: Penn State
[<em>] Where else rejected: none yet
[</em>] Where else applied: UPenn, Case Western
[*] Merit Scholarship: $5k a year + extra $2k a year from engineering/honors college</p>
<p>bodangles, you got $2K from engineering/honors college at PSU? what honors college do they have in engineering?</p>
<p>I believe she meant $2K additional from Pitt’s engineering school.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if monies are given at a later time, after acceptance letter? When we visited we got the impression that Pitt gives out money at different times vs other schools… We were accepted first week of November, with no mention of money then…we were hoping a letter will follow…Is that unrealistic?</p>
<p>My OOS daughter received a $5000 university scholarship and a $1000 engineering scholarship.
The letter very strangely suggested visiting the UHC office, but she has not been invited to the UHC.</p>
<p>Right now she is interested in Northeastern and Pitt and will hear back from RPI and Stevens soon.
She was also accepted at WPI and deferred from CWRU.</p>
<p>My concern is that the nonhonors class sizes may be very large, and she might be better off at a private college which might have smaller class sizes.</p>
<p>I grew up in Pittsburgh, and am the daughter of a Pitt alumna, so I am familiar with Oakland and Pitt.</p>
<p>I noticed some of you mentioned an engineering scholarship. When did you get that information and was it mailed or emailed? My daughter got a scholarship back in the fall but we haven’t heard anything about an individual engineering scholarship.</p>
<p>My daughter received one mailing with a $5000 university scholarship, and another mailing with $1000 engineering scholarship. This brings tuition cost within about 4000 of the in state rate.
If she were instate, the scholarship amounts might be $2000 total.</p>
<p>@marymac Can I ask when you got the mailing for the engineering scholarship? Congrats on the scholarships!</p>
<p>She received the letter February 19th.
The cost is still about 4-5K greater than instate.</p>