@twinmom2001 congratulations on the merit!!
I’m just curious why you mention honors as the deciding factor.
She’s headed to med school, as she wants to be a medical examiner. So the more aid for undergrad, more of her college fund is left for med school. She wants as little debt as possible. UT Dallas gives an insane package for NMSF, and will be tough to turn down if it means going into debt.
Ok, but the amount of merit isn’t tied to whether they are accepted to honors or not at Pitt, right?
That’s my understanding, yes. Honors notifications go out January 12th if applied by the early deadline in November.
Has anyone else applied for Stamps/Nordenberg scholarships?
so getting into honors does not increase the amount of aid, right?
Hey, is anyone applying for the second round of selections for the Guaranteed Admit Program (GAP) to UPitt’s Med School?
(Separate application once you’ve gotten in: 2 essays, specific bio-related achievements/research/medical work/community service, LORs)
(OOS, International)
I was accepted OOS October 25, and I’m starting to get worried about the money. I know merit is given out through March, but I applied in September and thought I would have hear back already. Is not hearing back yet a bad sign?
@KyloRen14 my son applied to BS/MD GAP.
I got accepted earlier this week, and every day since they have sent me the same exact email with a video saying I’m accepted. I’m a little confused. Is this a mistake? I was hoping to receive a little more information by now about my acceptance. I applied to the honors college and I want to see if I got in/if i got merit money
@Scaryspice123 I think, as was mentioned above, that the Honor’s college doesn’t send out letters until January 12th or so. And the merit letters seem to be a bit hit or miss. Usually it’s at least a month but for some it’s longer. I know it’s hard to be patient.
My son applied on 11/05 and still waiting for acceptance/rejection decision, so 7 weeks passed, is this normal?
@Seafirst Did your son check the portal to confirm his application is complete. Last year my daughter had her school send in a transcript instead of filling in the SRAR form with self-reported grades. Pitt was the only college that claimed to not have received her transcript. This caused a delay to her application by a month. This year my son sent his application in on 10/28 and had an answer by 11/18. I seem to recall 4-6 weeks being Pitt’s normal response time.
It’s been almost five weeks and still no response 
the portal isn’t much help either haha
@RNB2024 similar to my D. Applied 10/31, Accepted before Thanksgiving, Received merit offer letter in mail around mid December, got $100K ($25k/year). ACT 36, GPA 3.97/4, SAT II Math 800 Bio 800. OOS. waiting for honor decision and hope for Chancellor.
My friend’s daughter was accepted to Pitt several weeks ago and she is wondering where on the Portal any merit aid was shown. Her daughter has what I think are fairly strong stats, 1470 SAT and 4.5 GPA. She’s in state. If someone could let me know which tab/where to look for merit that would be great. Thanks!
Hi, @voyagermom I got the merit scholarship email approximately 2 and a half weeks after I got the acceptance email (10k/yr). I’m OOS (international) and applying for the GAP Med School. ACT: 34; IB 42/45; 770 Math2; 740 Bio(M);
Thanks @kyloren14, if she didn’t get an email does that mean no merit? Is there a spot on her Portal that it would be listed if she had some?
@voyagermom From what I understand, merit scholarships typically come a couple of weeks after admissions, but could come up until March. My son has slightly higher stats and no word yet of merit. I recall seeing last year that the cutoff for merit was 1480. Given that he was accepted in mid-Nov, I suspect that he missed this year’s cutoff. Luckily many other colleges award merit to students with similar stats.
Thanks @jdcollegedad , I’ll pass the info on to my friend.