@matt2024 , so are you admitted after submitting the grade ? Would you mind if you can share your stats?
@TheVulcan we all understand the wait is very hard. I think it might be helpful to remember that there is not necessarily an orderly way in which the merit is dished out. A 36 ACT doesn’t mean you will be notified before the 35 ACT group or even the 34 ACT group.
The merit committee historically has met every other week and there will be a slowdown as we approach holidays, finals,etc. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything good or bad. It doesn’t mean your student is being considered for an extra award either so that is definitely one myth that can be put to rest.
I sincerely hope your tone, entitlement and impatience have not bled over into your student’s essays (or are you the student?). Most schools haven’t even released admissions decisions and even more have not released merit and even more don’t even offer merit. Pitt graciously releases their merit well before decisions deadlines to allow parents and students to make decisions.
Pitt merit is a study in frustration since it’s not guaranteed, not always predictable and not released all at once. Hang in there and hopefully you can find some grace and patience in this moment of waiting. I’m sure your student will have many choices.
GPA is around 3.2 unweighted and 3.6 weighted. SAT 1570 single sitting. Senior grades are all As with one B. I think that’s what pushed it through. Now hoping to get the honors college admission as well.
You can say that again!
And I am simply saying that attending the live call did not provide the answers I was looking for.
I am sorry, but “some students need more time to be reviewed” is not really much of an answer in our particular situation when “our merit scholarships are primarily based on academics” was uttered not a minute prior. I think it would be better if they simply said “our scholarship review process is stochastic”.
Ability to hear back quickly is a major draw of Pitts admissions/merit process for some of its applicants. Now that other schools are beginning to respond, this selling point is getting diminished.
If you want to call this entitlement, so be it.
PS. I think his essays are fine:-)
@TheVulcan So if Pitt hit your magic scholarship number today you’d send in the deposit tomorrow?
Let it play out. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. Pretty much all the kids on CC are in the same boat. We’ve heard from Pitt and Temple and are now waiting on the other schools. Might take another 6 months. Some schools award scholarships by the numbers, others by the “holistic” approach. I don’t think Pitt has ever said they’re strictly by the numbers and they’ve always said merit is awarded by March 1st.
Nobody ever said the admissions process was logical (Spock reference). Colleges are free to determine how and when scholarships get sent out. Just as kids are free to pick and choose where to go.
Nowhere on the Pitt website does it say that all students that have certain stats get merit.
If that was the case, there would be no point in having a scholarship committee, or having students answer the short answer questions.
Maybe the committee wants to award merit to students who will be more likely to attend.
The best time to protect the yield is during the admissions process. Once the admission letter goes out, the tables turn.
There is zero cost in offering a scholarship to a student that does not matriculate. And almost any student is more likely to matriculate if given a scholarship.
No:) But the rest of the wait might feel a little easier:)
Do you have stats/evidence to prove this? Not sure Pitt is into yield protection. Acceptance rate is over 50%. I don’t see any stories of high stat kids being turned away from Pitt for fear of being rejected. It’s more about building a good class and giving scholarships to kids they want to attend. That takes time.
I ask again, “if Pitt hits your number today are you putting a deposit down?”. A scholarship in November is nice but I doubt most high stat kids are sending in deposits now. They’re waiting for all the acceptances and scholarships to come-in and then evaluate in March and April.
The cost of offering a scholarship to a student that does not matriculate is losing another excellent student who would’ve attended. There isn’t an endless bucket of scholarship money and they don’t/can’t necessarily re-award scholarships that were turned down. The Committee has to choose wisely. If Pitt offers a scholarship they want you to attend.
We all wish that. Let it play out. A week from now this might be old news for you.
@chmcnm, I am not saying Pitt practices yield protection (I doubt very many places do), I am simply saying that in using scholarships to manage yield it makes sense to offer it to those who clearly are less likely to attend without it, hence ACT cutoffs etc.
And I highly doubt they assume 100% matriculation among scholarships recipients either, they should have enough statistical data to predict these things. There are entire consulting companies that crunch these numbers for colleges these days.
They are free to do as they please, of course. I guess I just read a little too much into the “rolling basis” and “apply early” descriptions on their web site.
What? You mean I can not even vent my frustrations to anonymous strangers on the internet?
What is the world coming to?! ;^)
I didn’t think Vulcans were the venting type.
Applied on 10/15
Got undergrad admission’s email on 10/31
Admissions letter via snail mail on 11/04
Merit letter via snail mail on 11/13 ( $10k/year, OOS)
Still NO notification on GAP med supplement application. Web site says we will be notified within 2-4 weeks of undergrad admission.
Stats: 4.43 W/ ACT 34 / SAT Chem 760, SAT Math 2 800 / Tons of EC and shadowing experience / Over 10 courses outside of HS in community college related to medical field.
I think Daughter got in!
Buttons just changed to what others have said. The Accept/Decline, it says Dietrich Sch Arts & Sciences with an undeclared major.
Applied 10/25
Neuroscience
From Texas!
11 APs
Sooo exciting!
@PM81 , congratulations. I saw lots of your previous posts. My S applied on November 13, hoping to see the button soon. So what did u do about that famous button. Pressed accept button?
My son applied on 11/7. Keeps getting mad at me for telling him to check for the buttons.
Same here too
Also pitt mobile shows no active application. Planning to call them on Monday
@YS1111 Thank you! No, I think we are not supposed to press it until we receive the financial aid package?
Anyone knows what there is to do? We have not received the official email either.