and siameseninja, if you have a scholarship elsewhere, you can present that to pitt. it has to be to a comparable school(however Pitt defines that) and there is i believe a specific form you use. check out some of the other pitt threads as that has come up for discussion in other threads. and you also must present proof that you have been offerred a scholarship from somewhere else. i believe some posters have been able to either get or perhaps it was increase their Pitt scholarship going this route.