<p>Where can I find concrete information saying you don’t need to be in the honors college to receive the honors tuition scholarships and such? I can’t find any solid evidence, but I’m almost positive I read it somewhere…</p>
<p>Pitt’s program is run differently than many other university honors programs. You are accepted to the honors college, which gives you the opportunity to take honors level courses. Courses are offered in many different majors, but you don’t take all honors courses. You are not required to take any honors courses. Where the difference comes in is if you want the B.Phil. degree that is available. It requires an undergraduate project (and paper, I think). </p>
<p>What my D says is that the honors courses are designed for students who are very interested in the subject. When she visited Pitt, she talked to a physics student who told her to take honors physics but not honors calculus because the calculus included a lot of great information for math majors (but not physics majors). D says the honors chemistry is really geared toward students who took AP Chemistry (which she didn’t).</p>
<p>Honors, in my opinion, is offered to give the students who are quite interested in a subject the opportunity to study it more in depth. The dean of the honors college says, “It is designed to separate the curious from the simply smart.” Gotta love that.</p>
<p>I don’t know where you would find information in writing. The honors information session at Pitt certainly covers it.</p>
<p>I know what honors is, and I’m not interested. Which is why I want to know if I have to participate to keep my scholarship</p>
<p>Thank you for the info tho!</p>
<p>No, you don’t have to participate in the Honors College to keep your Honors College scholarship. DS took two honors courses Freshman year but took none in Sophomore year.</p>
<p>Just wondering, but how long after you guys got your acceptance letters did you learn about your scholarships? I got my acceptance back in October (about a week after I sent in my app) and I havent heard anything back yet. Does that mean I didnt get anything, or is it just not going to be full tuition or what? My stats are as follows:</p>
<p>ACT: 31
SAT: 2030
CR: 670, Math: 700, Writing: 660
SAT II: US History: 780; Math I: 630 
GPA: weighted: 4.1; Unweighted: 3.75*</p>
<p>Total of 8 AP courses over last three years and toughest courseload available at HS.</p>
<p>ECs:
Secretary of French Honor Society
3 year member NHS
3 year member of Journalism Honor Society-Quill and Scroll
3 years volleyball team
3 years nationally ranked school newspaper (Asst. Views editor, Academics Editor, In-Depth Editor)
Editor-in-chief of award-winning literary magazine
Honorable Mention in Prose design for VSHL Literary Magazine
Vice-President and Co-founder of Animal Welfare club
AP Scholar w/ Honor
2-time Academic letter
Part-time job</p>
<p>*county changed grading system this year, previously a 6-pt scale, now 7-pt. with added weights to honors courses (.5) and APs (1.0), hence the inflation.</p>
<p>I’m from Virginia, but the thing is I dont think I put anything about my ECs on the application, because I dont remember seeing a spot for it. I wrote my essay on my participation in the school newspaper (which was very well-written, I believe) and was admitted into UHC. So thoughts?</p>
<p>We heard about scholarship money within 2 weeks, but I know some have been waiting longer.</p>
<p>OAFA actually said maybe not til January, but then we got our letter a few days later.</p>
<p>You can always e-mail them and ask.</p>
<p>We’re in-state, fwiw: D received notice of her scholarship a little over a week after she received her acceptance, although I had frequently heard of a 2 to 2 1/2 week window between acceptance and scholarship notification. That having been said, from what I’ve read in this forum recently, it appears that Pitt may be staggering their scholarship notifications this year…?</p>
<p>It is hard to say for sure whether you will or will not get a scholarship since Pitt has never identified exactly what it takes to get one. Students with lower stats has received scholarships (but usually with some hook) and some with higher stats have not received scholarships. </p>
<p>Also has another student from your school applied to Pitt and received a scholarship already??? Don’t know how true this is but we were told that Pitt normally will only award one scholarship per student per school (OOS) unless there is some extenuating circumstance.</p>
<p>The only thing to do is wait and see but if you don’t see something by February – I would think chances are slim.</p>
<p>My son’s been waiting a little over a month to hear about a scholarship. I would think he’d have a very good shot, but who knows? We are in state.</p>
<p>SAT CR 720, Math 740
4.0 Unweighted GPA, not sure of weighted</p>
<h1>1 in his class of over a little under 400</h1>
<p>Very rigourous schedule (all honors and AP)</p>
<p>Wishing you luck, Consultant! I would think he would at least get a few thousand for being a chancellors nominee?</p>
<p>My son is considering Carnegie Mellon for Engineering. He is a National Merit Semifinalist with stellar stats and interesting music EC, but CMU is a reach for all. Northeastern is on the list too based on its excellent scholarships. </p>
<p>We will be in Pittsburgh in January, and I’ve begun to wonder if he should apply to Pitt too. It’s really late in the game… but heck he does have a slew of essays to draw upon. </p>
<p>Any thoughts? Merit scholarships and music opportunities (piano, sax, composing) are key factors in our search.</p>
<p>Applying to Pitt is easy so I’d encourage him to apply. If you’re planning on engineering you might want to apply for the Graduate School of Engineering Guarantee. It might be too late to be eligible to apply for the Chancellor’s Scholarship but full tuition and other scholarships should still be given out right now.</p>
<p>Yay!!! My daughter just got notification that she received the $10,000 (OOS) scholarship! We are thrilled! Even though she hoped for full tuition, we were starting to get scared she might not get anything…so this is awesome. She now has somewhere we can afford and that she really, really likes, so we can breathe.</p>
<p>She was accepted to A&S the first week of November, so it’s been about 5.5 weeks since she got accepted. Her stats are SAT 1410/2140, ACT 34. Not sure of her exact GPA but something like a 3.95 weighted and her school doesn’t rank.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone else who has been waiting to hear, we know how it feels!</p>
<p>Oh, and I forgot to say, she also got accepted to the Honors College and got the guarantee for grad school for Public and International Affairs.</p>
<p>Hopefully all this info will help others who have been waiting for scholarship news.</p>
<p>Pitt has a very effective admissions model I believe. They cut through a lot of the nonsense and probably pick up a lot of high-caliber students who apply because it is so easy, start to weigh their alternatives in light of full tuition and additional scholarships at Pitt, and wind up attending even though the school was not originally on their radar.</p>
<p>Hi, I was wondering if someone here could answer a quick question.</p>
<p>I was accepted into UPitt and the Honors College and was notified of this via mail November 20th. I just received an email a few days ago that states “We congratulate you on your admission to the University of Pittsburgh and on having been selected as a scholarship recipient. You are hereby invited to complete an online application to be considered to interview for the Guaranteed Admit Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.”</p>
<p>The email states that I am a scholarship recipient, but I haven’t actually received any mail stating that I’ve received any sort of scholarship. Do you know if this just means that the letter is late and that I have actually received a scholarship?</p>
<p>Amy, I received that same email before my scholarship letter was actually dated. I too wondered if it was a sign of things to come. I don’t believe it’s an actual notification of scholarship award, but the kids who are invited to apply to the med school guarantee have extremely high stats, even higher in some cases than they look for for scholarships, so I don’t doubt you’ll have some money coming your way. The med school invite is a big deal- congrats!</p>
<p>“Do you know if this just means that the letter is late and that I have actually received a scholarship?”</p>
<p>Yes. The scholarship letter is on the way to you. The email was sent out right after the scholarship decision was made. So it confused some people including you. Good luck.</p>
<p>Yes, scholarship letter is coming. Sometime they mail things at the same time and sometimes it is staggered. Congrats!</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>And for ssmom62,</p>
<p>State: MD
SAT: 1492/2180
ACT:
GPA: 4.0/4.72
Rank: 1/323 unweighted, 2/323 weighted
Essays: wrote one, terrible judge of whether it was good or not. English teacher loved it.
Teacher Recs: Very good, I believe
Ec’s: 4 years track, NHS, Key club, teach piano, etc
Hook (if any): If anything, I guess I have a pretty prestigious research internship at the Nation Cancer Institute
Location/Person:
School Type: Public
Gender: Female
Other Factors:
General Comments:</p>