Admission Status Concerns

I applied to Pitt Honors and the admissions website says it was submitted by November 1st and they have all my required information. However, I have yet to receive any information, either through mail or email about my application or admission status. I’m concerned my application may have been lost.

Also, a side separate question but important as well. Are those who applied for Pitt Honors automatically considered for general admission?

Hopefully you have already picked up the phone and talked to them about this. You have heard nothing? I would be skipping everything lined up for tomorrow to sit and wait and call them as soon as their office opens. I know it’s super rare to pick up an actual phone these days but you really need to just do it.

You should’ve had some sort of admissions decision within about 6-8 weeks tops of your application being complete. Honors would come separately. What does your portal say? Is it showing your application is missing something? Did you check your junk mail to see if perhaps you got the admissions email but missed it somehow?

I discovered my problem, unfortunately I must had made an error when asking the Collegeboard to submit my SAT scores. So while my application was complete they didn’t have all my information. Thank you for advising me to check my portal.

@djshade please call admissions tomorrow as soon as office opens as carachel2 advises!

Admissions needs to know right away so they can help you
You would receive a general admission decision before honors decision

So you need to call and tell admissions there was an error with your SAT score submission and ask what to do

The honors college decisions came out via email 3/1
Probably too late for honors but hopefully you can get admissions to review your application ASAP
Good luck and update us please!
As carachel said, get a pass so you can leave class to make the call
Your admission to Pitt depends on calling admissions to plead your case
Does the portal show they still don’t have your sat?

Yes, the portal said they don’t have my SAT, so I paid Collegeboard to send it again and rush shipped it.
I’ll make the call first chance I get tomorrow and I’ll be sure to update you. Thank you both so very much

Good job, you are on it now ???best of luck! @djshade!

@djshade I just learned that in the past, Pitt admissions accepted a photo of SAT stats in cases like yours
Pitt will still want the college board sent sat

Maybe you can send a photo of your sat via email today ?

In addition to calling, unless you have already spoken with admissions, and you have more info already :slight_smile:

Any news @djshade? Reach admissions today?

Sorry for the late reply. I called first thing this morning today and explained my situation. They asked me to email in a screenshot of my SAT’s (like you said), which I did immediately. I’m also rushing the official scores from the College Board.

They responded saying that while this wasn’t ideal they’ll still take it into consideration.

Thank you for helping me with this!

@DJShade so glad you connected with admissions and they asked for the screenshot of your SAT, that’s encouraging!
Best of luck, I’m betting it will work out for you !

Fingers crossed for you!!

It really stinks this happened but this is such a great lesson to learn moving forward. Check those applications, portals and follow though. If Pitt lets you in you will soon be getting lots of time sensitive emails and notifications from them and there will be items you have to complete without any prompting. I sense that from now moving forward you will be on top of things. Don’t feel too bad though, there was a kid a few years ago who threw away his Pitt admissions mail (he thought it was junk mail) and then never checked anything again. He had no idea he was admitted!

Come back and let us know!