Yes, merit is all about enticing students to choose the school over other acceptances, and for OOS students more merit is required to offset the costs. However I do see in state students disappointed about this every year in the Pitt threads.
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I think Pitt is definitely more generous with merit for both in state and oos than Penn State, Penn state is about as generous as our Rutgers (none of my kids bothered applying to Penn, my daughter received merit from Pitt).
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If you look at any schools with auto merit charts - whether Bama, Ms State, UAH, KU, Arizona, Miami, etc - the OOS merit is always more because so is the tuition. Itâs to help narrow the gap to in state - to attract more kids.
So no one should be surprised that their in state gets less. In most cases, theyâre still ahead of the OOS cost wise.
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congrats!! was this offer last night? trying to figure out if they did a round of offers this week yet. last week it was on a thursday.
I think they prob give more to OOS applicants just to equalize the costs a little? Pitt is $68K for my D26 to attend from out of state.
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Not here
My son was notified on Tuesday that he was awarded $20K/year. He was accepted into Swanson a few weeks ago. Stats: GPA:4.0UW/4.7W, Summa Cum Laude - Top 5% of class (no ranking, just Latin honors), 1520 SAT (780 Math / 740 RW), OOS.
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My student just got accepted to honors college, but no notice of merit yet.
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Same here. Hoping we both get good news re merit soon!
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My daughter too!!!
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Amazing! Huge congratulations. Send some of that magic our way :)
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Son accepted to honors college (business in state) no $$ yet though 
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I got 5k/year in merit last week but no news on honors college, am I cooked for that? in state.
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I think these might be the first batchâŠhopefully more to come!!
In the past, when there was an honors essay, all honors acceptances were released at once (in February I think). But that canât be the process now, because the deadline for applying to honors hasnât even arrived yet, and we are already seeing acceptances! So, we can be sure that there will be more batches to come! 
The web site says students may receive an Honors decision âat any time following general acceptance to the University but no later than March 1,â which is similar to how merit works. It is clearly a new process, so we donât know exactly what to expect⊠but based on this, Iâll make a wild guess that it might turn out to be like merit scholarships, where a committee meets weekly and small batches are announced fairly frequently.
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I think OOS generally get more merit because they are paying $20K more than in-state. Seems the costlier majors also get more. Makes a lot of sense to get quality OOS students and even the cost for higher cost majors. I didnât realize until this week that it costs more to attend Pitt for some majors than others.
My son got $5k a year for Dietrich and honors college acceptance last week. In-state. 1520 SAT, 4.0 U/W, 4.966 weighted. 5s in all of his APs and great ECs. He is applying to a million places, but I love the idea of Pitt.
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Wonder if more merit will be announced today
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Son instate just got 2k/year (8 total).
4.56 weighted
1450 sat
Accepted to honors
business major
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We just got $5k per year. Nursing. OOS. ACT 33, 3.8 UW/4.9W GPA. Honors acceptance last week
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thanks for updates!
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