<p>You geographic location is also a plus. Your scores are just below the lower 25th percentile range. It may be worth taking the ACT again if you think you can pop that up to a 25 or higher. Your high school rank is excellent. </p>
<p>Do you think you’d be good enough to [play for or walk-on Pitt’s varsity baseball team? Contacting the coaching staff may get you some connections (don’t know if they can pull any strings for walk-ons, but it might be worth contacting them if you have any interest in playing baseball at Pitt). You could start with the [recruiting</a> application here](<a href=“https://secure.assistantcoach.net/colleges/athlete_webform.asp?oid=101&sid=1586]recruiting”>https://secure.assistantcoach.net/colleges/athlete_webform.asp?oid=101&sid=1586). In any case, FYI, Pitt has baseball at the club team level as well.</p>
<p>Pitt likely reports weighted GPAs on the Common Data Set. You may have been quoted an unweighted GPA, or GPAs could be down because of the controversy in PA over budget cuts to the state-schools and resulting possibilities of increased in-state tuition. Who knows?</p>
<p>No matter what, with your story and background, I think you have a very good shot at admission. Remember, even with those 25-75 percentile numbers reported in the CDS, a whole quarter of Pitt’s class last year got in with credentials as good as (or potentially) worse than yours. Pitt often tells such students to send in updated transcripts later in their senior year to track their progress, so do not get senioritis. Work on improving that GPA as much as you can your senior year, and I think you’ll have a very good chance.</p>