<p>Wow! Okay…now… this is a good Xmas present.</p>
<p>Helen Faison Scholarship today!-- full tuition, room and board with invite to Chancellor.
Invite to apply to Guaranteed Med. Not sure why one would apply to Chancellor if Faison is full freight? </p>
<p>Stats already posted --also forgot to put National Achievement Semi-Finalist (198 PSAT); 200 hours of community service -tutoring inner city children. Needless say we are thrilled and need to make a road trip up. Brown, Bowdoin are in his top three. He was deferred by Yale but he has always been more interested in Brown and Pitt for the medical aspect. This would free him up to really prepare for medical school and continue playing violin. He would have some time and breathing room. Not to mention no debt.</p>
<p>Happy Holidays folks. I will finally get a little sleep tonight. ;)</p>
<p>Thanks Momonthehill…first thing I thought about was making the crazy SAT vocabulary flash cards for him and us bickering back and forth at midnight on the upteempth testing session. rofl… Been working with him on this since kindergarten and always worried that scraping for the parochial schools instead of putting it in savings might backfire but well…it worked. And happy he did not give up his violin when everyone was dropping out in junior high and ninth grade. Anyway thanks again.</p>
<p>State: PA
SAT:
ACT 31
GPA: 4.0 biznatches
Rank: 9/1,025
Essays: glorious
Teacher Recs: epically glorious
Ec’s: yea
Hook (if any): white n nerdy
Location/Person:
School Type: big@ss public school near phila
Gender: male
Other Factors:
General Comments: got accepted to 6 yr pharmd program too</p>
<p>Our son applied before the Nov 1 deadline. He submitted the Chancellors application and we are still waiting to see if he will be a Nominee Finalist </p>
<p>Amount of Scholarship: Full tuition (invited to apply for Chancellors)</p>
<p>State: PA
SAT: 2300 (M - 800 / V - 780 / W - 720)
ACT:
GPA: ~ 3.8
Rank: Doesn’t rank
Essays: Excellent
Teacher Recs: Probably excellent
Ec’s: Various (some sports), mostly outside of school, though
Hook (if any): Competitive chess player
Location/Person: PA
School Type: Public
Gender: Male
Other Factors:
General Comments:</p>
<p>If I go to a competitive high school, have a 3.75(UW)/4.17(W) GPA and a 1450/2220 SAT, anyone think I have a shot at the 2k (IS) scholarship (I applied in October and they claim I haven’t been reviewed for scholarships yet)?</p>
<p>You should have a good shot at the 2k IS scholarship. I would stay in contact with them and make sure they review you for scholarships before the end of the month. Your chances will also depend on your class rank, if your school does rank. Pitt looks for people in the top 5% (or so they say), but as long as you are within the top 10%-15% you should still be competitive. </p>
Not sure. From what I’ve seen so far almost all of the merit money seems to be going to OOS students including some OOS URMs with lower SATs than yours. There might be some money left for an IS student with well above average stats.</p>
<p>Aglages, the 2K is only in-state. I’m sure they have a number they give out every year. Motion, it looks like your SAT went up, did you get into the honors college then?</p>
<p>Yes, it did go up, and I actually got into the honors college with my 1390 SAT which surprised me. My GC said he thought I got in because I was essentially at the cut-off point for SATs and had a rather rigorous curriculum, but I’m unsure. Also, does anyone know if Pitt requires a mid-year report, and, if they don’t, if they allow you to send one in? I ask because I got a 4.86 Weighted GPA last semester and I want to be able to have it considered.</p>
Mondaysun: Why / how are you sure? What is the number and is it affected by how much OOS merit money is distributed? Just curious how a Wisconsin resident would have so much insight into the PA in-state aid process.</p>
<p>aglages - Please do not consider the information on this forum to represent a truly random selection of students. I do not know where you are getting your information on “almost all of the merit money seems to be going to OOS students,” but it’s obviously more impressive to say one received a $10K or $12K scholarship rather than a $2K scholarship. The $10K OOS (which I guess has now been rasied to $12K) scholarship is the same scholarship as the $2K scholarship for in-state students. The $10K (and/or $12K) essentially makes the out-of-state tuition the same as in-state.</p>
<p>However, Pitt is and has been making a determined effort to attract OOS students. That’s pretty much the norm around the public university world these days. Even California has announced that their vaunted state university system flagship will increase its OOS enrollment by 10%.</p>
Not exactly accurate. Many public universities are increasing their OOS FULL PAY enrollments to help offset costs. Not many of the “vaunted” state universities are spending taxpayer money to attract an increase in OOS students. </p>
<p>While I recognize that CC does not represent a “truly random selection of students” it does support my statement which was “From what I’ve seen so far almost all…”.</p>