Some of those high stats students are NMSF and likely become NMF, which will open their doors to full-tuition or even full-ride at other institutions (Baylor, UTD, Fordham, Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, New Mexico, Florida universities thanks to Benacquisto Scholarship,…)
Just received my scholarship information in the mail! $20,000/year!
For reference, I have a 1560 SAT & 4.0 GPA. Only took 8 APs but my school only offers 9. Thought my Pitt essays were some of the best that I sent to any institution.
I applied 10/15 and received my acceptance letter on 10/29.
An important question: Do the academic scholarships that we receive take away from need-based aid? If not, Pitt is looking like a very attractive option! If they do, I guess I’ll just have to wait to hear the final offer before I celebrate.
Either way, I’m very grateful for this award! Best of luck to everyone else who’s waiting.
Just received my letter saying I got a $15K a year award.
1550 SAT and 3.99 UW GPA
@BigMan1234 and @biggcollegeguy are you in-state or OOS? What school/major did you apply to?
@worriedcat Could you please clarify - what is the Cost Analysis Process? Thanks.
“In addition, I have heard Pitt no longer offers Cost Analysis process, so it will be hard for OOS students to consider even with $15K scholarship. I hope Pitt will change their mind and reinstate the Cost Analysis process to give OOS students another chance. Otherwise, those might be better off staying with their IS options.”
@Genevieve18 Prior to this year, an admitted student who receives some scholarship may request a re-evaluation of the scholarship amount by submitting the Cost of Attendance comparison of two other schools against Pitt. E.g., Pitt offers 15K scholarship, the OOS tuition is 31K, and the Room-n-Board is 12K. Pitt’s COA would be 28K (31K+12K-15K). A similar college like Fordham may offer full tuition of 52K, which makes its COA down to 18K to cover Room-n-Board. Based on this, Pitt might reconsider to increase the scholarship offer by 5K-10K (no guarantee, though). I have seen from 2022 thread that a student got increased from 5K to 10K, and another got raised from 15K to 25K. The process starts from mid January and continues until the scholarship fund runs out. It would have made Pitt a very attractive option to many students this year should Pitt resurrects the process.
@MominPA2017 Out of state
OOS
@MominPA2017 OOS, Dietrich as an arts & sciences/business dual major
Very disappointing if in fact they are not considering cost analysis any longer. Pitt is first my child’s first choice but merit award was way below what we thought we would get, especially considering some of the other awards posted here. We have other offers from private colleges that bring net cost down 10K below what Pitt will be.
@kkkjjj Even if they no longer have a formal “cost analysis” process, I’d imagine that if your child contacts admissions with this information they may be able to make an adjustment. It can’t hurt to ask, if you have other offers on the table. I would wait until your child is ready to “pull the trigger” for Pitt if they increase the award, so your child can tell them, truthfully, you are my first choice, and if you can come close enough to matching my other net costs, I’ll accept the offer today.
Has anyone gotten merit aid offer from Upitt with Swanson?
@hailtopitt1787 Can you confirm if the cost analysis process is discontinued or not? Seems some upthread saying it was discontinued but I have not heard that.
^^^Hailtopitt1787 said no more cost analysis process in this thread, post 276
I received acceptance around the same day (10/29) but haven’t received any notice of merit. I guess that means I’m not getting any merit? I was accepted for engineering.
I got my merit aid about a week after my acceptance letter, so give it some time
@univbound123, Merit scholarship offers do not come at the same time as the admissions letter. Our Scholarship Committee meets weekly and makes scholarships decisions through February. The latest someone would hear back about a scholarship is March 1. It’s much too early to assume you are not getting any merit aid - decisions are still coming out. Good luck!
Best,
A Pitt Admissions Staffer
D got accepted before Nov 1st and still has not received any honors college information or scholarships information.
I know you mentioned that Pitt will announce scholarship in February as well. Sorry for posting this in spite of knowing that there is still some wait time.
I am reading posts from others who got to know scholarship information within a week or two. Kind of worried if we will get any scholarship as it’s close to 3 weeks.
It is that application is from common app or is it because college of computing is new, there is some delay?
My D applied via Pitts application on the day it opened and it took 5.5 weeks for her acceptance (OOS) and so excited she is in, but no merit money offer. Her ACT was is a 32, GPA of 4.4 with 11 AP to date and taking another 6 her senior year. We knew with a 32 it is a long shot but still hoping. Pitt is her number one. The other two schools she has been accepted to have made quite generous merit offers to her so disappointed to see (on the previous page of this thread) that Pitt may no longer be reviewing applicants using cost analysis. Can someone share if this is an official decision? Thanks