<p>I have gone through this twice and can say that Pitt doesn’t do notifications the same way for everyone. Both my kids had similar stats, applying to engineering. One was given a merit award about 3 months after acceptance, like January - and that was the final offer. The other got the notification about acceptance, then UHC, then merit. All were separate mailings. In the merit award letter, she also was invited to apply for Chancellor’s (didn’t get invited for the interview though.) In the end, we had a better merit offer for her from our state univ. as well as a comparable private. Pitt had a form to request review of competing offers and they were able to bump up her award another $3K/yr. And she got another $4K/yr scholarship, again separately notified, from engineering. So, just because you don’t know yet, doesn’t mean it isn’t going to happen.</p>