honors college chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pittsburgh
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<p>honestly, what are my chances of getting into the honors college/recieving a scholarship to Pitt?</p>

<p>I sent my online application 2 weeks ago and my transcript/teacher recs should be sent out w/i a week.</p>

<p>unweighted GPA: 4.0
class rank: 13 out of 1025 (yea a huge highschool)
6 AP courses total (4 this year- Calc AB, English, Spanish, Government)....5 on US hist exam, 5 on World Hist exam
ACT Composite: 31
Math-32
English-33
Science-29
Reading-30
(I'm taking the ACT one last time in 2 weeks and shooting for a 32 composite)</p>

<p>-National Honor Society Fundraising Chairman
-2 Varsity letters for the high school soccer team
-play club soccer as well (play in notable tournaments all over E. Coast and have played in Europe too)
Key Club member (about 100 hours logged)
-Meals on Wheels food deliverer
-tutor students at our school who have come from foreign countries that know little or no english
-Volunteer at the Special Olympics each year (was the Games Station leader last year....not that impressive haha but i guess its leadership)</p>

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<p>also will they reconsider my application after they recieve my new ACT score sometime in earlier november?</p>

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<p>It is very difficult to say what the exact requirements are for the merit scholarships (especially the full tuition). Pitt has never spelled it out but usually you need a 1450 SAT (math & verbal) or 33 ACT (which equals the 1450 on the SAT scale). Of course, there are students with HIGHER stats who didn’t get any scholarship money and students with LOWER stats who did get scholarship money. It depends upon what they are looking for and it does seem that they want OOS students. So just apply and see what Pitt gives you :)</p>

<p>I believe they consider your application once it is complete and I don’t know if they will give it another look but it doesn’t hurt to ask them.</p>

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<p>Freshmen with SAT combined math and critical reading scores of 1400 or above (or a 32 composite ACT score) and who are in the top 5 percent of their high school class are eligible to enroll in University Honors College (UHC) courses.</p>

<p>Per [url=<a href=“http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/about/eligibility.html]Eligibility[/url”>http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/about/eligibility.html]Eligibility[/url</a>]</p>

<p>So, you miss the cutoff. You are top 10% and 31 ACT</p>

<p>PS Not sure how scholarships work, I’m worrying about that one myself</p>

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<p>^ There seem to have been many exceptions for the Honors College.</p>

<p>I just got into it and I was not even in the top 10% of my HS.</p>

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<p>My son had a 1450 on the SAT. As I recall, he was offered $ 10,000 merit. He ended up going to Emory Univer. though.</p>

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<p>The numbers don’t really matter (the eligibility numbers)…they’re just there for show. The actual acceptance into there is based on more than those numbers (or so claimed the dean in the honors college info session I went to)</p>

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<p>does anyone think i’ll get some money with those stats?</p>