<p>My daughter was awarded a 10K scholarship. Not to sound ungrateful but I was really hoping she’d get full tuition here. For next year’s applicants, apply as soon as possible. </p>
<p>Is there any hope in asking for more merit aid?</p>
<p>Your daughter has a 1480 (CR/M), right? I would think she would get full tuition too. Are you in-state?</p>
<p>S1732, don’t joke. From my personal experience, I think might be a good idea to follow up. In retrospect, I wish I had been more aggressive in doing so since it is difficult to get any money after the freshman admission process.</p>
<p>lkf725, I’m sorry that you took offense at my take on the Pitt Scholarships. I’m just trying to keep everything in perspective and trying not to get upset about things that I fully don’t understand - like the process of awarding scholarships. (BTW, son got the $10,000 OOS offer from Pitt today, which is nice and seems to bring tuition in line with PA in-state tuition - for this year at least. However, our stag flagship - University of Wisconsin Madison - is about $5000 per year cheaper - and tuition reciprocity with the University of Minnesota allows him to attend there for the same rate as it would cost to attend at Madison). In any case, after finals this week, son will apply for the Chancellors scholarship and we’ll see what happens from there.</p>
<p>so, Im thinking applying early was definately the best way to go as far as scholarship money. Not looking too good now for a full tuition for me 
Seems like they were handing them out like candy to the first batch of applicants</p>
<p>electronblue and S1732 — So glad your children heard something from Pitt. We haven’t heard a thing except honors acceptance. My daughter has 1450(CR/Math), AP Scholar with Honor, 4.0 (perfect unweighted) GPA.</p>
<p>$10,000 in-state would be great for us! In the meantime she’s been offered good money from 3 other good schools — not quite as good as Pitt Honors but still good choices.</p>
<p>What were your kids acceptance dates…my daughter’s was November 21st.</p>
<p>S1732 – Totally understand you keeping everything in perspective…I can’t wait until it’s all over!</p>
<p>S1732: Oh, perhaps I didn’t express myself correctly! I took no offense at all! I was only trying to say that from what Pitt told me a few years ago, several people have stacks of applications on their desks to review for merit scholarships. Something could very well get misplaced or overlooked. I have had to call more than once to get what we did, and each time it was an oversight. But congrats on the nice scholarship offer your son received. I think Pitt has a lot to offer and is a good value.</p>
<p>I believe Pitt has gotten TONS more applications this year and probably with lots of kids with great SAT/ACT, GPAs, ECs, rank thus the competition for the full tuition scholarships is greater than it has ever been in the past. It seems this year, a high SAT/ACT is not a guarantee for a full tuition scholarship!</p>
<p>AdvicePlease, my son got his letter on November 21 as well, so you should be hearing soon. Good luck! Today son was also accepted at Case Western Reserve.</p>
<p>S1732 – That’s good to hear…we’ll remain hopeful. Good to hear that your son has great options! Is he done applying to schools. My daughter is still thinking about 2 more schools…time is running out though.</p>
<p>MTnest – Yes sounds like they have lots of competitive applicants and they committed themselves to lots of early scholarships.</p>
<p>AdvicePlease, my son has been pretty - um - random about his approach to colleges. He’s applied to 10 - big universities, little LACs, and some in-between and has two applications left to complete before January 1 (everything is in except for the supplements). He applied for a NAVY ROTC scholarship (unlikely since 85% of the scholarships have to go to technical majors and he wants to study economics/global studies), so he had to apply to five schools that had NROTC units or affiliations with one. Although he initially wanted to go to school FAR away from home (Milwaukee), he has determined that Pittsburgh is about as far as he wants to go. Once he thought about it, he decided that he’s a midwestern boy at heart and that schools on the East/West coast would probably not be a comfortable match for him (which is exactly what his GC told him).</p>
<p>I lost my job a few months ago, so cost of attendance is a huge issue in our household. Things change soooo quickly. We were able to send my son to a great private high school, whereas my 8th grader will be going to the local (large) suburban high school (her choice, but I’m not certain we could have swung it had she wanted something else). Unfortunately, the true impact won’t show up until next year’s tax return for FASFA purposes, but we are sure feeling it.</p>
<p>S1732 – I hope things turn around quickly for you in the job market. I know several people in this situation — it’s a scary economy. I’m cautiously optimistic that things will improve next year.</p>
<p>I was in a similar situation as an 8th grader. The older kids went to private high schools and then medical bills consumed my parents so I went to a large public suburban high school. I can’t say I had the best education in high school — let’s be real I graduated in the late 1970s — who did?! I’m fine though and I’m confident that your daughter will be fine.</p>
<p>My daughter’s approach has also been somewhat random. Driven by location — she wants a city – and also oddly driven by the free applications that kept arriving. It was a “why not” apply approach. She’s applied to about 10 in total and we’ve heard from 5 already.</p>
<p>She’s going to apply to 2 reach schools next and then be done with it!</p>
<p>AdvicePlease - you mention that your daughter has a 4.0gpa. I am curious how many AP/IB or honors classes she took. That could have an effect on how they look at things.</p>
<p>Since you mention she is an AP Scholor w/honors, she must have taken some AP classes for sure, but since you don’t mention her wgpa, no way to tell how many</p>
<p>At my daughters HS, there are many people that have a 4.0 uwgpa because they didn’t take very many honors or ap and were able to keep all A’s. This makes them rank ahead of my D in uw class rank since she only has a 3.9111. But when compared to wgpa, they still have a 4.0 and she has a 4.9333</p>
<p>Just to follow up, my daughter was accepted ED elsewhere last night so her merit award at Pitt is a moot point now. Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Congrats to you and your daughter, electronblue!</p>
<p>usafa2011dad – </p>
<p>My daughter has had all classes either AP or honors. She’s taken lots of extra science and math courses. She has completed 4 AP classes already – 5’s in Stat and Bio (and a 4 in one course and a 3 in the other). She is currently taking 4 more AP courses. She earned 8 science credits this summer at a college level (not community college) and was offered a full tuition scholarship at one of the schools that she attended. (Don’t want to offer too much information in case anyone she knew would identify her!!). She always took the hardest courses available…because she loves to learn. Our school doesn’t rank but I’d bet she’d be in the top 5 of 450 kids. She’s got lots of ECs and service – no sports though. Her SAT is very good…her weighted GPA is probably a 4.9 or so maybe even a 5.</p>
<p>If she were offered decent money she’d probably go to Pitt because she liked it…but with nothing so far offered it’s definitely not a possibility. We’re not worried though except that it would be nice to have Pitt as a real option!</p>
<p>Electronblue – Congrats!</p>
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[ *] SAT/ACT: 2010: M:700 R:640 W:670
[ *] SAT IIs: NONE!
[ *] GPA (UW): 3.6
[ *] GPA (W): School does not do weighting
[ *] Rank: No rankings either. I know…right?
[ *] Leadership Positions: Cheerleading captain and director of sports division in TV station
[ *] Awards/Honors:
[ *] Extra-curricular activities: I work in the TV station at my school as the selected leader of the sports division and produce a weekly show that is broadcasted to 150,000 homes - I sent in a tape.</p>
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[ *] State or Country: Pittsburgh, PA
[ *] School Type: Really, really, really smart kids. North Allegheny
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: Female</p>
<p>Comments:</p>
<p>I just want to remind parents worried that their D/S hasn’t gotten money but other “less-deserving people” have…I got full tuition and have many good things in my applications other than the 2-3 stats i listed here in a thread.</p>
<p>Anon<em>Person</em>1 — No need to remind me! I’m sure you are a deserving student and I’m thrilled for you that you were offered full tuition. It’s great that there are so many motivated and talented kids in this class.</p>