<p>“If you have SAT scores (M and CR combined) of 1450 or higher, or an ACT of 33 or higher, you should contact Pitt and ask.”</p>
<p>Based on our experience, it looks like Pitt gives scholarships if 1450 is met without essay or recommendations.</p>
<p>There is no guarantee of a scholarship if your scores are above 1450 SAT or 33 ACT. Chances are better if you meet those numbers. </p>
<p>There have been many students who had had the 1450 or higher who got NOTHING! And there are those students with lesser stats (below 1450) who received full tuition scholarships. It depends upon what Pitt is looking for this year and whether you meet their criteria. The sticking point is the “criteria” – we don’t know what it is and Pitt has never said what it is. I believe it changes depending upon what they want each year!</p>
<p>MTnest - Based on our experience implies exactly our experience. We filed nothing other than application, transcript and SAT scores. So no essays or recommendations.</p>
<p>Full tuition received with the offer to compete for chancellorship, an honors college admission, an automatic master’s admission in engineering, and application for guaranteed admission to medical school.</p>
<p>I was looking into who receives the application for medical school and it said if you applied for biomedical engineering and have a base score of 1450.</p>
<p>texaspg: I am not disputing your experience. Our experience is pretty similar to yours (except DS attached an essay with his application since they said they needed it for scholarship consideration – I don’t think it was needed). </p>
<p>Over the past 5 years, I have noticed the exceptions to your experience and mine. I always feel bad for those applicants who had the 1450/33 plus scores and don’t get the full tuition scholarship – they may get the lesser scholarship or nothing. I don’t want them to assume it is automatic they will get the scholarship. If it was automatic then Pitt should be like U of Alabama who sets forth exactly what a 35 ACT score will net you.</p>
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<p>That is true, and I didn’t say there was a guarantee. I merely said that if you have those numbers, and you haven’t heard anything about a scholarship, contact Pitt and ask. Wouldn’t hurt.</p>
<p>thanks for the replies… would it be beneficial or too late to send pitt an essay with a few recs? and send new scores that I should get later December?</p>
<p>Agh! I am so sorry for the late replies, thanks to everyone who has been filling it! It’s getting to crunch time around campus and I’m swamped with work!</p>
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<p>I definitely recommend skipping Calc 1 and 2 with a 5 on Calc BC. (or just 1 if it was calc AB). As an engineering, we barely have enough space in our schedule as is, and any general classes that you can get out of the way helps clear up your schedule to either take lighter loads, or to take more electives that you want to.</p>
<p>I didn’t skip physics (did honors physics 1 and 2). Like people have said, don’t just take honors physics 2 without 1.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what kind of engineering your son wants to be, but for something like civil or mechanical, I would recommend retaking physics in college to ensure you have your fundamentals down, because it will make later classes that much easier to understand.</p>
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<p>Like people have said, I would stick to the UHC admitted day over a regular day. It will be more catered to honors students (I think they let you tour the dorms too), and you’ll be able to meet people in UHC, hear about our clubs, sit in on an honors class, etc. It’s a great way to learn about the UHC before being thrown into it. I think the regular admitted students day may be too overwhelming to do everything you want to (but I never attended either so I’m not sure).</p>
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<p>One of the main problems is giving credit for higher level classes without him taking the class. AP credit is given because you have a transcript that shows you took the AP and got this score etc. etc. so the class transfers over. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of someone getting additional credits beyond Phyiscs 1 and 2 when they started. It would probably be best to email the head of the department and discuss options. The only thing I can think of is that he may have to ask to be tested out of higher classes by passing the final or what, I’m not sure (this is what the language departments do). But again, I’ve never heard of this happening for Physics…</p>
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<p>It also helps to remember that the scholarship committee only meets every Friday, so it takes much longer for scholarship decisions to go than regular decisions.</p>
<p>I guess it would help to know more of your stats (GPA, SAT/ACT, State, Minority or not, etc.) since those seem to also be a factor of Scholarship money.</p>
<p>Thanks for the feedback, AwesomeOpossum. If my son does end up enrolling in Pitt, I am sure he’ll want to talk with the dept. head in math or physics (or both if he double majors). He has about 50 units of community college math and physics but yes, he’s continued to do work beyond the CC classes in an unconventional (and inexpensive) way, so I guess he’ll have to wait and see how it all turns out.</p>
<p>I applied to the swanson school in early november and am still waiting to hear back. How much longer do you think I’ll have to wait, and how are the co-op opportunites at Pitt?</p>
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<p>Now that application season has started to pick up, I would guess it can take anywhere from 4-6+ weeks to hear back. (I applied late December and didn’t hear until the end of January if I recall correctly). </p>
<p>The co-op opportunities are FANTASTIC. I think we have 100% placement (or near that) for students, and there are SO many companies to work for! Obviously the really popular/cool places (Westinghouse, BMW, NASA, etc.) are going to be much harder to get into, but everyone that I know of who applied for co-op got an offer somewhere. And I’m still getting emails about new opportunities that open up for anyone interested. The only thing for co-op is that you will graduate at least a semester later, and you do have to maintain a good GPA (minimum is about 2.75-2.9, but above a 3.0 is much better).</p>
<p>With that said, a large number of students don’t co-op at Pitt (I didn’t) and that’s fine too. Many students want to graduate on time and instead opt to do summer internships at companies, which Pitt can also help you with.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m a High School senior and I just sent an application to Pitt.</p>
<p>I have a 3.81 gpa (weighted, 3.7 unweighted), yet i did bad on my sats (1100 reading and math, and 1610 with writing) 
I also took four college chemistry courses at IUP the last two summers: Gen Chem 1 (chem 111) gen chem 2 (chem 112) Organic chemistry 1 (chem 231) and organic chemistry 2 (chem 232) and I received As in all four courses, giving me a 4.0 on my IUP transcript.
I applied undeclared even though i know what i want to go into (biomed eng. or bioeng).<br>
Would you say that I a descent chance of getting in, despite how late it is and and my low sats?
My teachers wrote good letters of recommendations and i also got two letters of recommendations from two professors. </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Hi Awesomeoposum,</p>
<p>I am a senior from New Jersey and recently got accepted to Pitt! It is my top choice so i am very excited about it! I just had one question on majoring. I want to major in education and i know Pitt has a school of education but i only got into the Arts and sciences college. Do you know the process i will have to go through to get into the school of education? Like applying for it in my sophomore or junior year. </p>
<p>Also when im in the arts and sciences college should i finish all my Gen Ed classes in my first two years at Pitt?</p>
<p>Look into Pitt’s teacher certification program; I think that it is a five-year program. A friend’s daughter graduated a couple years ago.</p>
<p>You do not have to finish your gen ed requirements in the first two years, but often people get most of them out of the way.</p>
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<p>I don’t know. Your SATs are low. And I mean, <em>really</em> low. Pitt generally requires at LEAST a 1200 CR+M for admission, and I believe that’s just for A&S. Engineering is generally tougher (my year the average was a 1330 CR+M I believe, and it’s gone up every year since). </p>
<p>Especially for BioE, the fact that you did well in those college classes is good-- did you check with Pitt to make sure the credit would transfer (I can’t see why it wouldn’t). In terms of that though, what kind of math classes are you taking currently and how are you doing in them? Same for English. If you can show that you do well in high level classes, it’s just that the standardized test doesn’t show that, then you have a very good chance.</p>
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<p>I’m not entire sure about the education process, I would ask your advisor once you get here.</p>
<p>I would also attempt to get a lot of GenEds out of the way (if you’re not coming in with AP credits). I have friends who waited until Senior year to finish some of them, and it’s quite frustrating to have to take a 400-person Psych 101 class (for example) instead of that cool 30-person upper-level film class because you have Gen Eds to fill. Try to get them done sooner (and pick them wisely, if you can double-dip with a class, DO IT). That way your schedule is a lot freer later.</p>
<p>Do we receive a notification of acceptance to the honors program along with the acceptance letter to the school? Or does it come separately?</p>
<p>in your initial acceptance letter it will say in the first paragraph you are “eligible” to participate in the honors college then you will receive additional information about a week or two later.</p>