<p>I'd like to know if Pitt gives good amounts of financial aid to students who are from states outside of Pennsylvania, considering Pitt is a state school.</p>
<p>In general, state colleges are not set up to give substantial aid to out of state students. Pitt uses FAFSA to determine need. Do you know what your EFC is?</p>
<p>I don’t even know what EFC is, lol.</p>
<p>If you want a real education on financial aid, start hanging out on the financial aid forum of College Confidential.</p>
<p>Probably not, unless you’re a top student competing for a scholarship. I know a couple out-of-staters with near-full rides, but they were in the top of their class.</p>
<p>Pitt is generous with merit scholarships given to OOS students, moreso than with IS residents. However, financial aid is need-based, so I don’t think it matters whether you’re IS or OOS as long as your EFC is met.</p>
<p>What is EFC?</p>
<p>EFC–Expected Family Contribution? It is what the financial aid office figures say your family can pay toward college after you file the financial aid forms. It can range from $0 to quite a large number, which would be enough that a student would be eligible for no financial aid. Some families don’t even file forms knowing that they will be paying the whole bill.</p>
<p>Financial aid is based on need, but merit money (academic, music, sports scholarships) is not. Pitt offers good merit aid for top out of state students.</p>
<p>I just received my finaid package from Pitt and I’m OOS. I did not receive a merit scholarship. However, Pitt has given me enough need based aid that the cost is basically what I would of paid if I WAS in state. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I’ll be attending Pitt in the fall :)</p>
<p>*Pitt offers good merit aid for top out of state students. *</p>
<p>As long as you hit the magic 1450 SAT score.</p>
<p>"As long as you hit the magic 1450 SAT score. "</p>
<p>And apply early enough and have a good enough gpa. I applied right before the scholarship deadline and have a 3.52uw/3.67w gpa, and I didn’t get any merit. I got a 1510.</p>
<p>I’m not impressed with Pitt’s financial aid for instate students. Yes I understand why they give money to 1450+ SAT applicants, but OOS and OOS URMs with average stats ahead of top 50% percentile in-state students? Seems as though an admissions “manager” is manipulating the numbers.</p>
<p>My son had a 1460 SAT, a 4.0 unweighted GPA, took 9 AP’s and has scored 5’s on 5 of them. His SATII scores were 800 Math, 780 Chem, 730 USHistory, an Eagle Scout and many other EC’s including many (over 300 hours) volunteer hours in the Pittsburgh area, and applied early. He didn’t get any merit aid. So much for the magic 1450 SAT score and good GPA.</p>
<p>hs. Very surprised that your S did not receive any merit aid. …My S had a 1450 on his SAT when he applied 2 years ago. We are from NJ. He was offered a $10k merit award from Pitt. He ended up going to Emory Univ. but UPitt was certainly high on his list.</p>
<p>IIRC I had a 1470 M+CR when I was accepted to Pitt with full tuition. I’m from NJ.</p>
<p>My OS d had 1450, 2210 SAT ,1/350 in class, lots of ec’s, applied in summer, didn’t get full tuition-still waiting for financial aid letter.</p>
<p>hsmom6: Perhaps the fact that you are a resident of PA hurt your chances of aid? Based on some posts that I’ve seen Pitt seems to be more generous with OOS merit aid.</p>
<p>I think being in state hurt us. We also talked to the school and they had so many applicants in his field (biomedical engineering) that the stats for merit aid were much higher this year than they had been in the past. At least that is what we were told! My son was disappointed but it has made it easier come decision time as both Case Western and University of Miami are significantly less expensive for him.</p>
<p>as an OOS student I received full tuition + 4k/year engineering scholarship. also got 5500 in stafford loans for the 2010-2011 school year.</p>
<p>I think most state schools try to give money to attract OOS students. I think my state schools SUNY do the same. SUNY Binghamton to attract OOS students sent them admissions notifications about 6 weeks before they were sent to IS students - really got us IS people angry. But it is their way of attracting OOS</p>