<p>I was elated to receive an e-mail that I'm one of the people being interviewed for the chancellor's - pitt would hands-down be my top choice if I receive it. However, I was surprised to receive it this early considering they said we wouldn't hear until January. Has anyone else been notified yet?</p>
<p>I certainly think you are the first. Congratulations! When did you submit your app?</p>
<p>Thank you so much! I sent mine in mid-November.</p>
<p>Congrats Prismatic. We just sent our app back last week.</p>
<p>Congrats! I sent in my application in mid-november but one of my teachers forgot to send in a recommendation form (I wasn’t too happy about that lol) until I reminded him right before December. So I’m a little bit behind you but hopefully the news comes soon.</p>
<p>Also, do we know whether or not they will notify people that they won’t be interviewing?</p>
<p>They notify people who will not be interviewing via snail mail, according to their Chancellor’s Scholarship website.</p>
<p>The site also says that notifications for interviews are rolling, and that around 100 are released per year.</p>
<p>@prismatic, if you don’t mind me asking what are your stats? like GPA and scores?</p>
<p>Sure, although I’ve heard in the past that the decision is mainly made by the essays.</p>
<pre><code>* Intended Major: English, possibly neuroscience or psych
- SAT:CR: 800 M: 700 W: 800
- SAT IIs:- Lit: 760 USH: 710
- GPA: 3.87 uw
- Rank:17/309
- Other stats: took 10 APs, visited, submitted in early october
- Activities: Lead two clubs English-related clubs, won an international writing prize and a number of school public speaking and recitation ones. Also 500+ hours community service (tutoring children and researching at a psych lab) and had a job SAT tutoring kids this summer.
</code></pre>
<p>I looked back at an old thread and found people with 1400s getting it, though, so please don’t assume it’s just a rank and gpa thing. My rank is technically on the borderline for the honors college as it is.</p>
<p>That’s impressive! Congrats on the interview! I’m waiting with baited breath now…</p>
<p>Congrats on receiving that scholarship!! You must be good at standardized tests. This one highly intelligent valedictorian couldn’t receive that scholarship because her SAT score was 10 points below the minimum, even though she scored 5’s on her APs, took all honors, volunteered like crazy, and was so involved in school.</p>
<p>I don’t think prismatic has gotten it yet. (Getting the interview is pretty challenging already though.)</p>
<p>Hey rmc, you seem to have posted a lot quite bitterly about Pitt’s admissions office and its admission policies. Do you go to Pitt?</p>
<p>How are you so sure it was your SAT score that didn’t get you the scholarship you’re talking about? Pitt generally has a cutoff of 1450 for full tuition but this is a general guideline and is not set in stone; people have gotten the scholarship with SATs a little below that and others did not while their SAT was above that. Also, the Chancellor’s Scholarship doesn’t have as much of an emphasis on test scores as the automatic merit scholarships and takes more into account the type of person they’re looking for.</p>
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Sounds as though this highly intelligent valedictorian may have been successful in a school where the bar was not set too high.</p>
<p>I’m not necessarily bitter and yes I go to Pitt. I’m not discouraging anyone from attending Pitt, because it is an amazing institution. There are some flaws and mistakes that are made at the administrative level. When I hear of students having questions about admissions or scholarships related to admissions, I like to relate my personal experience as well as that of others. And to the reply on the valedictorian statement: she came from one of the best high schools in the state.</p>
<p>I don’t want to turn this into a debate on test scores, but I do think that the standardized tests, though necessary, don’t always do the best job at majoring aptitude.</p>
<p>I go to one of the best high schools in my state, if not the best (yes, I do love my high school) and it took me multiple tries to get the score I was looking for.</p>
<p>The first two times I took the ACT I got 29’s. Then I pulled out the 34 I was looking for. On one of my ACT’s, the test report told me I would not be ready for college level science yet I take AP Bio and AP Chem and will likely get 5’s on them.</p>
<p>I simply think that some people are better at taking those test than others and that some get screwed because of that. It’s a necessary evil unfortunately because big colleges need some way to screen their applicants in a timely fashion.</p>
<p>I know that I am going to need to get good at taking standardized tests though because I want to become a surgeon and the MCAT is quite the beastly standardized test</p>
<p>My daughter just mailed her essays- now our wait just begins.</p>
<p>I sent my application in right before Thanksgiving and still haven’t heard anything - do you think this means I’m out?</p>
<p>^ No, not really. You also have to take into account that Pitt has been closed for half of December for winter break and the adcoms wouldn’t be meeting during that time.</p>
<p>Exactly. Plus there might be different readers who go at different rates. So far it seems like they haven’t gotten back to many people</p>
<p>have been trying to find a post from last year, and cant so will ask… if invited to Chancellor interview that is at your own cost??? but someone last year said that though you pay to go to the interview, if you go they will increase your award if not chosen for chancellor??? son sent his back by dec 4th so hoping to hear by end of this month.</p>