<p>@ MTnest
They still offer upper campus tours: M-F at 11:00 and 3:00, and on specified Saturdays.</p>
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<p>Plenty of Pitt students are in the same situation as you, bearsfan. Pitt attracts great kids every year for just this reason.</p>
<p>if you’re in engineering you wouldn’t want to take honors classes anyways.</p>
<p>Agree with bearsfan and MDMom. Our daughter had some great merit offers from other schools, and received the full tuition offer from Pitt. We went to visit Pitt mainly because of the scholarship, and told her not to factor the full tuition into her decision. We did not want her to choose a school that did not fit her personally, and then possibly be faced with a transfer down the road. </p>
<p>We were all very impressed with the Pitt campus when we arrived for Honors weekend last year, and my daughter knew within hours of our arrival that she wanted to attend Pitt. She said it would have been her choice even without the scholarship offer. However, Pitt would likely not have been on her radar if not for the merit offer. I think the scholarship certainly attracts some kids that may not have seriously considered the school, and definitely increases the chances of at least a visit.</p>
<p>When my daughter visited Pitt two years ago, she met with a professor in the physiscs department. He knew her stats and asked her: “What are the chances that you will actually attend Pitt?” She answered: “Better and better as the day goes on.” I thought that was a nice answer from DD who really does love Pitt–but had wanted to go to Chicago all through her junior and senior years and had been admitted there EA.</p>
<p>Riley 13, are you in or out of state? We are visitng PGH in a few weeks (my home town) and will look at some schools on the way and while there. I am wondering what Pitt offers in the financial aid department for OOS kids.</p>
<p>We’re OOS and got $10K merit aid. Many on CC think OOS students have better chance of getting merit aid than IS but I don’t know of any stats. The scholarship does make a difference in our case as the other schools are similar academically and probably will cost more. I don’t think financial aid matters OOS or IS, mostly based on FAFSA, right?</p>
<p>icebat – have your student apply EARLY so that the most merit money is still available. There isn’t anything you can do about being IS or OOS.</p>
<p>Other than certain PA-based grant programs, I don’t believe there is a difference in financial aid between IS and OOS. Merit aid is different. For example, the $10K OOS merit scholarship mentioned above is the equivalent of a $2K merit scholarship for IS students. Full tuition is full tuition - IS or OOS - very nice scholarship to get. </p>
<p>Purely non-scientific analysis of comments on CC appears to indicate OOS were getting merit money for stats that were lower than IS kids who were getting none. Again, this is perception only, I’ve never seen actual statistics indicating the number of OOS vs IS scholarships. I can state absolutely, that Pitt continues to try to increase the number of high-stat OOS students.</p>
<p>We are out of state and my daughter got a full tuition scholarship. She applied very early and her decision and scholarship in October.</p>
<p>We are OOS and my daughter also received a full tuition scholarship. She waited until Christmas break to do all her applications (ugh) because she couldn’t (or wouldn’t) make time with 5APs and 3 sports and she was away all summer. She submitted he Pitt app 12/30 - a last minute decision. Turned out to be a great decision. We just attended the Honors Day program and she loved the school and Pittsburgh - we walked to upper campus and we saw Sutherland? dorm to check out next years Honors housing. She asked the desk person if she could look around and then she asked a student if she could see his room/suite. We also checked out the athletic facilities and on our way out, they offered us a tour of the pool, baseball, soccer and softball fields. Perfect weather didn’t hurt either - we’ve had snow 3 times this week (snow day and delayed opening and it’s almost April). She’d like to go back for the next Honors Pgm to do the things she missed out on. Too much to see in one day.</p>
<p>Congrats to your daughter! That is a great scholarship. It increases in value as tuition goes up year to year. What does she plan to study?</p>
<p>LurkNessMonster,
No idea. She applied undecided to her schools. Strong in math/sci but also enjoys anthropology, languages, cultural studies.</p>
<p>icebat-to answer your question, my daughter only received a merit scholarship. No financial aid, so I am not sure how generous they are with those funds. We are OOS.</p>
<p>Is there anyone looking to dorm in Honors housing and looking for a roommate?</p>
<p>Or does anyone know a way to find one?</p>
<p>Facebook, ferrariman.</p>
<p>There’s really no coherent group on facebook :/</p>
<p>Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using CC App</p>
<p>There will be, ferrariman, I think. You could start one. Look around at the pages from the past years. Once it gets going, lots of kids have been on there and looking for roommates. Good luck.</p>
<p>bump this one too.</p>
<p>Hi. When should kids start hearing about scholarships? Have any in state kids gotten more than $2000 a year in scholarships and if so and u don’t mind sharing how much and what were stats and extra cirr like. Thanks</p>