It’s hard to estimate how long each individual applicant will hear back on scholarships, there is not a specific pattern. It is rolling, the Scholarship Committee meets weekly October-February, and they send letters out weekly. Some students are reviewed by the Scholarship Committee once and are offered something, others are reviewed several times before the Committee determines what they would like to offer that student. Just because you have not heard yet and others have does not mean you should rule out getting a scholarship offer at all. The latest anyone will hear back on scholarships is March 1, so there is still a lot of time! I hope that helps clarify.
As for Pitt Honors, everyone who applied for Pitt Honors will be notified of their decision on the same day. So, those who met the November 1 priority consideration deadline will hear back by January 12 at the latest. Those who apply in time for the January 15 regular consideration deadline will hear back by March 1.
@hailtopitt1787 Thank you for the response. Is there reason/benefit to share offers from other universities with the Scholarship Committee? Just wondering if that is helpful at all. Thank you
@WaitingPitt, The Scholarship Committee does not review competing offers from other universities. Best of luck to your daughter! I know our Committee will give her a fair and thorough review and get back to you as quickly as possible.
@hailtopitt1787 Wait?! What?! Several times before on this thread you mentioned that the Honors notifications for applications submitted by Nov 1st would be sent out by Dec 15th, but today you said Jan 12th. I’m really hoping today’s post was a typo. Can you please confirm which date is correct?
Thank you so much for keeping us informed! Keeps us parents somewhat sane through this process.
@MominPA2017, Unfortunately, the timeline has been moved back.
We received more than 7,000 applications in the week leading up to the Pitt Honors Priority Deadline. Our staff are working hard to process and review such a huge influx of applications, but it takes time to give everyone a fair and thorough review. As a result, we will be delayed in making Pitt Honors decisions. Those who met the November 1 Pitt Honors Priority Consideration Deadline will hear back from us by January 12 at the latest.
Let me know if there are any other questions I can help answer.
Wow, 7,000 apps in a week! It seems more and more students have become aware of the high level education that Pitt can provide, and in a great city as well. @hailtopitt1787 Care to divulge how many total apps were received by Nov 1 and/or how many you expect in total this admissions cycle?
@mwfan1921 thanks for the link but it’s saying “thread not found”?
@hailtopitt1787 can you pls confirm whether cost analysis process has been discontinued this year? If so, and some student has to decide between two net COAs, Pitt being their top choice, do they have any recourse or is that just it? I had in past, very much appreciated Pitt being open to discuss and reconsider. In fact, having that openness to discussion was enough to sway to our decision for my 3 kids who have attended pitt.
Got my merit aid letter today, exactly two weeks after I got my acceptance letter OOS for engineering. Disappointed, only 15K a year, I was hoping for more. Pitt is probably out of the running for me now as UCs would cost around the same with this merit award.
Stats:
ACT 35 (35 35 35 36)
4.0 uw GPA, 4.67 weighted
5s on all ap exams I took (Calc bc, Chem, Spanish Lang, Eng lang, bio) 800 math 2 and 800 Chem subject test
I thought my essays were good, ecs decent (volunteering in my native country and at community center, founded literary magazine, COSMOS UC davis, piano for 12 years, community choir 8 years and on student board)
My D also got her merit scholarship of 15K a year and no invitation for chancellor’s scholarship. My D was bit disappointed. I think last year similar stat kids got 5-10K more. Looks like this year there is more competition.With this scholarship it matches to our state tuition (without scholarships).
Thank you UPitt for the merit scholarship and hope to advance to her dream medicine GAP…
Stats:
GPA: WGPA: 4.22 (school does not calculate UW GPA but it is 3.78 per our calculation)
ACT: 36
Rank: no ranking in her school
All honors/AP/Post AP
Out of state
Many medical related extracurricular (500+ hours of medical research and volunteering)
Major: Pre-Medicine (Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences)
Applied around 10/21, got acceptance 11/2.
@DSOF20192023 likely not due to “more competition” and everything to do with the changing climate of merit at most schools. Take a look around College Confidential and you can see that merit at a lot of universities tends to change from year to year with the trend usually showing a decline in the merit offered. But I do know of ACT 35-36K kids from my daughter’s application cycle (high school graduating class of 2017) who also got $15K per year. Pitt’s merit is definitely not guaranteed and the formula is a mystery for sure.
Also, it seems that the notification for Chancellor’s invites will be different this year. Invites are not being sent out with initial merit scholarship offers. I would definitely not count your daughter out just yet. Best of luck!
@SG2468 I can feel your disappointment and agree UCs will be a better choice since Pitt’s COA will be similar. After all, UCs with multiple campuses that are highly ranked will offer one of the best opportunities. Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD are in the top 20 for engineering, and UCSB, UCD, UCI do not lag much behind. Many OOS/non-CA students are willing to attend even with higher COA.
On my common application for Pitt, I answered no for “Would you like to apply to Pitt Honors now?”. However, I changed my mind and submitted the online application for Pitt Honors after submitting the Common App. I have already been accepted to Pitt, so would I still be considered for Pitt Honors?
Thanks for the response! If I applied to Pitt Honors after the priority deadline, will that affect when I will be notified about scholarships, or is that a separate process? And would applying to Pitt Honors before the priority deadline have given me priority consideration for scholarships?