I am so sorry! I assume she applied for Honors college also? Interesting that the high SAT didn’t seem to help. I wonder if they thought she was Ivy-or-similar bound?
So far my daughter’s best merit offer is from a southern LAC, but I would prefer to keep her within two day’s driving distance.
Yes, she applied to the Honors college, too. She has applied to a number of Ivy and other higher ranked schools, but since we are basically full pay, she would consider merit options elsewhere. But with Pitt’s low merit she will not be considering going there.
Good luck in her journey. We are full-pay also and only considering schools that offer merit.
oh my. I dont want to wait any longer. My son has been checking for financial aid award all week. Supposed to be by end of January
Received my buttons on Sunday, when should I expect an email or mail?
Does anyone know how honors decisions work and if you get an email saying you were rejected or just accepted emails
She just got an email, merit $5000 a year, I’m actually relieved, we never saw the school, and she can’t even decide on her top pick from other EA schools who offered a lot more.
Congrats to your daughter. It seems like all schools are reducing merit scholarships this year.
Yo I just got in as an Econ major!
February 1st
Congrats!
Ugh. OOS. I am dreading low merit offer from Pitt. It’s my DS #1 choice at the moment. But for it to be worthwhile he will need at least $15k. I am hoping they are looking to attract more boys to humanities–and we’ll get lucky.
Good luck to him, maybe Pitt has too many females applying for actuarial mathematics!
Delayed response to my earlier post -
Early December Acceptance.
DS received the $15k per year merit scholarship. His stats are:
OOS
1540 SAT (one sitting after multiple cancelations - what a stressful process)
Very strong EC’s/Leadership/Service and related recommendations (consistent commitments to service over many, many years) This was probably his strongest attribute next to his academics.
3.8 UW and maybe 4.7 W
4 AP’s Stem emphasis and his HS also offers Calc 3 which is rare and I think a plus with admissions.
Essays were pretty good but probably not the strongest point.
Pretty competitive high school but not a prep or private school.
Good luck to everyone!
Has anyone actually got into the school with very low stats? I’m just wondering
what would you consider low stats?
Like 3.0-3.5 weighted?
for me, i was accepted to Deitrich in November with a weighted gpa of 93 (our school doesn’t do it on a 4.0 scale_
I wouldn’t say that’s exactly low, that’s still a 3.72 on a 4.0 scale. But congratulations on your acceptance!
Will loans or any other change appear in the portal once a student is evaluated for financial aid? Trying to figure out if it’s worth it to keep checking or to assume they don’t post anything to the portals and/or assume no financial aid will be offered.
Merit is listed there and has been for weeks.