<p>@neopolis</p>
<p>Our high school is rigorous… in fact, it is one of the top schools in our state. My daughter has taken 8 AP courses and all the rest are honors level so she has the rigor as well. </p>
<p>Based on you getting in with your class rank of 14%, unless your ACT or SAT was a perfect score, all I can say is they must factor in other things such as under-represented minority, outlier state, less competitive school/program within Pitt. – We were told it was her class rank in comparison to others who were accepted to the Swanson School of Engineering, which- as they said- is very competitive. so clearly they review all the stats compared to others WITHIN the program in which you are applying to, not the university overall. At least that’s how it sounded to us. </p>
<p>But good for you seriously. I’ve said previously that I’ve seen others on this forum accepted that had lower stats than hers I’m not ‘angry’ about it - just an observation and a bit baffled. That said, she’s been invited to apply to the honors colleges at the other schools she’s applied to and has even gotten scholarship money already from 2 of them including Clemson (another good engineering school), so while Pitt is her first choice, we’ll have to see how it pans out financially. Since we have 2 kids in college at the same time, they can only go out of state if they get scholarships to help lower the out of state tuitions.</p>