<p>DS received a letter from the chancellor last wk saying he recently became aware of his application and hoped he would attend. I interpreted this to mean he was reviewed for merit aid and not awarded any. He has very high test scores but is ranked outside the top 10% of his HS. He has already been admitted to UHC. Any hope for merit?</p>
<p>from not fron - sorry</p>
<p>I don’t know but was a little surprised at my DS and Pitt. He was admitted to Pitt’s UHC and received $5K merit aid but I thought he’d receive more based on stats (1550 (CR/M) and 2280 one sitting (2300 superscored) with 3.94UW/4.3W. School doesn’t rank and we’re in-state and others at his high school received full tuition with similar numbers in past years. I’m not sure if they cut back on merit aid this year or the requirements got raised.</p>
<p>I sure hope so…my son got that letter shortly after being accepted…he’s top 2% of class with 35 act and still no scholarship letter here.</p>
<p>Well that’s even more worrisome. DS had a 1600 CR/M and a 2320 in one sitting. But an unweighted 3.75 and 4.2 weighted. Class rank top 20%, hate that school ranks.</p>
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<p>Another poster recently posted that they called about scholarships and was told that 1450+, A average, and top 5% were required to be considered. [University</a> of Pittsburgh: Undergraduate Admissions & Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.oafa.pitt.edu/universityschlrs.aspx]University”>http://www.oafa.pitt.edu/universityschlrs.aspx)</p>
<p>Janjdad…did your son submit an essay and LORS?</p>
<p>MommyDearest,
He submitted the same things he did for the common app and other schools, including essays and letters of rec… He got a Presidential scholarship/Honors from Tulane (27K) and 11K from Indiana/Honors so it likely wasn’t the application. I wonder if the school not ranking affected it… The other possibility is that they limit the number of full tuitions per school and there were a few kids with 2380s and at least one 2400 in my son’s class. With 100 from his class applying there, some of the higher performers use it as a safety (sorry if anyone is offended by that comment) and without class rank, they used other benchmarks.
I looked at your link and his classes were all Honors/
AP and he had some decent ECs…so we thought he had the requirements. Goes to the unpredictability of the process.</p>
<p>Hi guys. I received a full ride to Pitt, just read the letter today. My stats are nowhere near as impressive though.</p>
<p>ACT: 32
SAT: 2130 (1430 CR + M)</p>
<p>I believe the letter said only 2 incoming freshman for engineering get this.</p>
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<p>Jsmathwiz - Congrats! I just looked up your stats and they are very impressive. Good luck with a match with Questbridge.</p>
<p>@Mom24boys</p>
<p>Thank you for the positive comments, and I hope your child does well and excels in whatever they want to do.</p>
<p>@ everybody who previously posted
I feel bad that you guys have really amazing stats. I’m not sure how it happened. The process does seem a little random, but did you try contacting people there? I know some students were mailed letters that said if they visited Pitt and showed them unofficial test scores and a transcript, they’d receive an admissions decision within 3 hours. I talked to an admissions counselor while I was there and kept showing interest by emailing periodically. I asked about when they would be deciding merit aid in October or so, then I checked in in early November. I think the key is to just show them you are truly interested. Now, if you did all that, then maybe it is random.</p>
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<p>Sorry, I meant if you did all that and nothing happened, then maybe they spin a giant wheel and roll some dice.</p>
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<p>Sorry again
*had spun</p>
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<p>Janjdad…ahhh, that would make sense if they limit the number of scholarships in each school. Sorry your son wasn’t one that got a big one. Sounds like he has some good options, and I imagine more to come.</p>
<p>Jsmathwiz…agreed that you have great stats! Maybe I’ll have my son call this week, but I think it’s a little soon to worry. </p>
<p>If they are sending out awards that are less than full tuition, I guess no news is good news at this point.</p>
<p>Keeping in mind that the vast majority of scholarship recipients probably do not participate at CC, I would bet that Pitt had a large number of scholarship quality students and could not award aid to all of them.</p>
<p>Also older DS did not get his full tuition letter until after the Thanksgiving holidays, everyone was posting their awards already and I thought he wasn’t going to get anything…don’t give up hope!!!</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone! I hope you will consider going to Pitt. It is a great school and older DS has LOVED his time there (although not enough to consider grad school!!!).</p>
<p>Jsmathwhiz - Could you re-read your letter, does it actually state only 2 for engineering? My dd was accepted 9/29 with similar stats but no word yet on scholarship. Last wk got the additional carrot to apply for guaranteed admission to med school (which is nice but not what we wanted in the mail!)</p>
<p>Pitt has several “full ride” scholarships (tuition/room&board/books/fees) for URM or students they really want. I believe the Helen Faison is one and there are some others. Engineering also has a few of these. These are different and separate from the full tuition scholarships from the UHC/Univ. of Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>For the UHC scholarships, in the award letter – they said last year less than 4% of the 24,000 applicants were awarded the full tuition scholarship.</p>
<p>@ amandakayak</p>
<p>This scholarship is called the Donald M. Henderson Scholarship. It is for the school of engineering. I am not sure if this applies to UHC, as I was accepted there too. It reads:</p>
<p>“The Donald M. Henderson Scholarship is reserved for two incoming freshmen engineering students who have demonstrated academic excellence through their high school career and who have shown outstanding potential for leadership.”</p>
<p>Now, I’m pretty sure there are more full tuition scholarships available besides this one. Also this scholarship is for minority students. So there have to be other merit-based scholarships.</p>
<p>Jsmath…congratulations…that one is a full ride, correct? I imagine you’re going to have a lot of options come April. :)</p>
<p>@MommyDearest13
Thank you, and I’m looking forward to April and May 1st. I hopefully will get into my first choice, but if not I would not be disappointed in my future options.</p>
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