My daughter has the same gpa, 33 act submitted, so far good merit from other ea applications, nothing from Pitt yet. OOS.
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Gosh I hope not. She is supposed to be a biochemistry major.
If you are in Dietrich you don’t declare a major until sophomore year. Any listing of a major at this point is just to help your advisor get you started. You aren’t locked into anything.
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I just checked my portal and saw I got a $10k scholarship! Is this only for the first year or is it renewed every year?
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Typically scholarships are renewable for 4 years. Sometimes the student has to maintain a certain GPA. You will have to recheck the fine print or maybe contact the college to be sure
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Hi! Can you share stats? OOS? etc etc?
Plenty of people posted about getting merit without test scores.
Hey! I am an international student and I got my buttons today.
I got accepted for computer science.
Does anyone know how long they take to offer a merit scholarship.for now i haven’t got any scholarship.
hi, im an international student too. I got my acceptance 10th of dec and got a merit scholarship 15th of jan, so about a month. the maximum for international students at Pitt is 2000 dollars tho. they sent me an email but I also checked the portal under the financial aid section.
ohhk thanks for the info !
My D got accepted months ago. We are OOS. Still NO info on scholarships. She is top of her class, volunteer hours, member to many Honors Societies, etc. AP classes. I’m a single mother and I am biting my nails waiting to find out how to make this happen for her!
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no problem! good luck w everything
DD just sent me this email:
Dear Student,
Earlier this week you were emailed a Financial Aid Offer for the 2021-2022 academic year. Our office is still in the process of finalizing awards and unfortunately the Financial Aid Offer you received was not a complete offer. We plan to send a Revised Financial Aid Offer the week of February 8.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Hail to Pitt!
Pitt’s Financial Aid Team
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same weird. mine didn’t have any federal loans so that might be the reason? I hope I can get more grants though.
DD OOS got 5K a year merit. GPA 98, #5 of 260 or so, 6 APs, most classes all honors/dual enrollment. Test optional because she had no SATs – 5 tests canceled. Great essays and recs, pretty good but not blow-your-mind ECs. Have to confess to being disappointed. Pitt was her first choice but COA is around $40K. I’m thinking test optional hurt her, but what can you do? She has other options but she really wanted Pitt.
We did not receive any such email… So I guess it’s all still up in the air for some.
Did your financial aid package include any federal loans?
DD was offered a 5k OOS merit award weeks ago & then recently a $2500 Pitt Panther award. I’m not even sure what that is.
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Pitt merit does not seem to have a set pattern. My daughter applied with a SAT 1570, with a 4.76 (4.0 unweighted) from a very competitive instate HS (all honors plus 13 APs- she has also moved beyond calculus and is taking linear algebra online), with good essays and ECs, and only received $2000 in merit aid.
Buttons on 12/7, email 12/11, STILL waiting for merit. Uggh…