<p>I know that this information is contained in various places. Would you mind putting your information here, so that it would be easy for others to compare (hope and dream!). Please give us the amount of the merit award and your vital statistics. Thanks so much! I would love to post first, but we're still hoping for something!</p>
<p>Amount of Scholarship: </p>
<p>State:
SAT:
ACT:
GPA:
Rank:
Essays:
Teacher Recs:
Ec's:
Hook (if any):
Location/Person:
School Type:
Gender:
Other Factors:
General Comments:</p>
<p>Honestly I think the accepted students thread would be a better resource for applicants to gauge their chances of getting a merit scholarship because it would show applicants who did not get any money as well as those who did.</p>
<p>Amount of Scholarship: Full Tuition
School at Pitt: Nursing
State: Michigan
ACT: 34
GPA: 4.0 UW
Rank: Doesn’t rank
Essays: Well written
Teacher Recs: Glowing
Ec’s: Good, but not great
Hook (if any): Attended TASP
School Type: Public
Gender: Male
Other Factors: Applied early
General Comments: Very, very thankful.</p>
<p>Got Full Tuition Honors Scholarship and invitation for Chancellors</p>
<p>State: NY
SAT: 2250
ACT: 32
GPA: 4.0
Rank: doesn’t rank
Essays: Very Good
Teacher Recs: Very Good
Ec’s: same sport for 5 years. Co Captain, Captain, National Tourneys
Hook (if any):
School Type: Public
Gender: Male
Other Factors:
General Comments: LikeUHC alot. Pitt went from safe school to strong contender.</p>
<p>I hate to crash the party but PBush is right, plus I’m not sure if every recipient feels like posting their stats in 3 places. Here’s the link from last year’s decisions thread which is pretty handy:</p>
<p>Thank you for the link to last year’s thread. </p>
<p>I read all the posts in the accepted student’s section for this year. I just thought it was hard to see the whole picture when scrolling through 244 posts.</p>
<p>Good point about looking at the statistics for the people who didn’t get anything, though.</p>
<p>I can understand not wanting to post the same information three times, but if you’re bursting with joy (Hee! Hee!) feel free.</p>
<p>I’m from PA. Full tuition honors scholarship, guaranteed admission to engineering grad school, invitation to compete for Chancellor’s. I honestly don’t know D’s detailed stats (other than good scores and lots of APs, no hooks, ORM). She is running the whole show. I just supply the coffee, and take her on tours :)</p>
<p>State: Maryland
SAT: 1930
ACT:
GPA: 3.5/4.2
Rank: we don’t rank
Essays: good
Teacher Recs: good!!!
Ec’s: cheer captain, club president
Hook (if any):
Location/Person:
School Type: public
Gender: female
Other Factors:
General Comments: happy :)</p>
<p>SAT: 620 M / 680 CR / 730 W
SAT IIs: World History & Spanish (not that good…)
GPA: 3.52 UW, 4.21 W
Rank: no ranks
Other stats: all honors classes, AP World History, AP Comparative Govt., AP Calculus AB, IB Spanish, IB Psychology
Subjective:
Essays: good
Ec’s: cheer captain, club president
Teacher Recs: probably very good
Counselor Rec: probably good</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: MD
School Type: good HS
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: female</p>
<p>SAT: 620 M / 680 CR / 730 W
SAT IIs: World History & Spanish (not that good…)
GPA: 3.52 UW, 4.21 W
Rank: no ranks
Other stats: all honors classes, AP World History, AP Comparative Govt., AP Calculus AB, IB Spanish, IB Psychology
Subjective:
Essays: good
Ec’s: cheer captain, club president
Teacher Recs: probably very good
Counselor Rec: probably good</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: MD
School Type: good HS
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: female"</p>
<p>"how do u know that and why did you post that information??? The merit thread was not concerned with classes or ethnicity… "</p>
<p>“It was info you posted earlier. With your 1300 SAT score, not a lot of applicants would get the Honors College full scholarship.”</p>
<p>"Clearly full ride material. Please tell me that you’ve been accepted into the School of Medicine Guarantee Program. "</p>
<p>The reason aglages added to your profile is because ethnicity plays a role in scholarship consideration. A tleast I think that was aglages reasoning. Also, how do you that is a guarantee to the Medicine Program??? Don’t you need tons of volunteer hours in the medicine field and a perfect resume because they accept only ~12 students.</p>
<p>I think classes and ethnicity are relevant, just as state of residence matters. It might help to know which full tuition scholarship posters received, too. For instance, there is no way most people would get full tuition with a 3.5uw and a 1300 unless there was a significant hook, such as being URM or a recruited athlete. It does not diminish your accomplishment to say which scholarship you received. Like was it a scholarship for minorities? For nursing? For engineering? ROTC? The Chancellors? Don’t let folks think that everything is possible for them, because it is usually not. The threshhold for scholarship money is normally higher than the posted stats.</p>