<p>Just sent in my application this past week! Have they been true so far that its only 3 weeks until you find out? Anyone heard earlier?</p>
<p>D had everything marked as “received” as of Aug. 27 and heard back by Sept. 9, followed by another letter from UHC a week later.</p>
<p>By the way, is there application fee waiver if use the prestige application ?</p>
<p>There was a fee waiver and an essay waiver, but she sent in the essay anyway.</p>
<p>I applied on September 20th with the prestige application and received my acceptance letter on the 30th. I was accepted to the honors program and received conditional acceptance to the pharmacy program. The letter stated that additional information about the honors program would be sent and that the scholarship committee had not yet reviewed my profile but I would be notified in a few weeks.</p>
<p>My son applied to Pitt using the online Pitt Prestige Application this week. I was hesitant about him doing it online. Seemed too easy. I’m comfortable that he’ll be accepted, but we’re OOS, so he needs aid to attend and I don’t want him to be at a disadvantage.</p>
<p>We had gotten inconsistent information about whether submitting supplemental information (essay, letters of rec, resume) would help for merit scholarship consideration. When his college counselor visited a few weeks ago she was told it would help, but last week she heard from another counselor who was told by Pitt that supplemental information would not be used.</p>
<p>I called today and was told by an admissions counselor that only “grades and test scores” would be considered and there was no need to send in any supplemental information because it would not be considered in for admission or merit-based aid decisions. </p>
<p>If anyone has gotten recent information from Pitt that the supplemental information will be used, please post information and source. Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m doing the Prestige APP too! a little concern here, Is this Prestige App binding or not? anyone can answer this for me?</p>
<p>Definitely not binding! Its just a Pitt enticing students to join their community by giving an “easier” application</p>
<p>We were not going to apply to Pittsburgh as our school’s guidance counselor indicated it was a stretch for our daughter. However, we received several emails from Pittsburgh regarding the Prestige Application and encouraging her to apply and that she could potentially be eligible for scholarships. This could only have been based upon her ACT scores which were not as high relatively compared to her grades (which they had not seen yet). We thought that they must have seen something that interested them in her so we spent the application fee and submitted the application. Within a couple of weeks we got a letter indicating that they now needed to wait for her mid-year grades, which in essence, as a parent whose had another child who went through the college application process, means that if they don’t fill up with better students, she is not getting in. We are kicking ourselves now since we wasted money on this application just because of the prestige status lure. We should have known better given they weren’t offering the application submission for free. Beware of the Prestige application. We feel it is more of a money making methodology than an actual invite with the best intent to admit.</p>
<p>^It’s probably the USNWR game which all colleges partake in. Increase the number of people applying thereby increasing your selectivity.</p>
<p>Pitt’s applications are up [78%</a> over the same time last year](<a href=“Home”>Home) and SATs are up 11 points. That might have something to do with delayed acceptance on the prestige app this time around. In previous years, reports on this site are that prestige apps generally get admitted. In fact, I don’t ever remember reading of someone applying through the prestige mechanism that has even been referred to a regional campus…which I believe is one of four outcomes: accepted, additional info requested, referred to regional campus, rejected. My AwesomeOpossum can comment on whether she remembers such a scenario for a prestige applicant.</p>
<p>But how these things generally work is that universities purchase names from the College Board (which runs AP, PSAT, SAT, etc) that match certain statistics or criteria that they are looking for as a way to prescreen candidate applicants. Like other schools, Pitt likely purchases names with a certain standardized test and/or geographical location. If it just was going purely after application numbers regardless of ability to be admitted, it would just join the Common App, which it hasn’t done yet as far as I know. </p>
<p>If people are interested in scholarship money though, I think it is a good idea to eventually send in the supplemental information, including the essay, in order to reinforce the seriousness of an applicant’s desire to attend Pitt.</p>
<p>In any case, come back and let us know the result of applying via this mechanism.</p>
<p>My daughter’s ACT scores were not stellar. There was no reason for them to select her. I still think there is other reasoning behind it which benefits the school. I am realistic. I have been in the business world for many years. This is a business just like any other. Money is money. Statistics are statistics. Anything a business can do to increase the income and improve statistics is always their primary focus.</p>
<p>I applied about a week ago over the prestige app and am really concerned because they got back to me requesting my October SAT scores with were eh and I sent them. Do you think I will be rejected? I’m really nervous because I really want to go. Thanks for any insight</p>
<p>Impossible to know without knowing your stats.</p>
<p>Pitt weighs grades, hs curriculum, and SAT/ACT all pretty heavily. Geography also seems to factor in. People generally have seemed safe in the past with a 1200+ CR+M SAT, but lower standardized test scores can be compensated by good grades. The reverse is also true. It does seem like a significant portion of applicants get asked for more information in any one year. That in itself doesn’t seem unusual or necessarily foreshadow doom. </p>
<p>As I said earlier, in previous years prestige applicants were on the right side of the admission ledger based on the anecdotal evidence of those that post on this board. Still, it is hard to know without knowing more about your stats, and even that is more difficult this year since there seems to be a big bump in the number applying to Pitt for Fall '14.</p>
<p>Hello!
I’m not sure if it’s too late for your son, but the Chicagoland admissions rep who visited my high school earlier this month recommended that I submit supplemental information to boost merit scholarship chances and prove interest. She said that I should send in everything to their general email address by mid-November, which is when she mentioned the major scholarships would be granted for “early” applicants.
I’m not sure about the inconsistency between reps, but it can’t possibly hurt!</p>
<p>My scores are not that great unfotunetly I got a 600 in math and 560 in CR. But on the ACT a 29 on English and a 25 on math. 3.3 UW 3.8 weight 9 AP classes everything else honors.</p>
<p>Your math is on the low side, the SAT score is borderline being right at the 25th percentile for Fall 2013…but probably adequate. In previous years 600 has been good enough but if standardized test scores are really averaging about 10 points higher this cycle, that may also bump you down a little on the math. Your ACT English seems as though it should be good enough. Curriculum is good with 9 APs and honors but the gpa is a hair on the lower side…but gpa is a little harder to judge because of the different ways your hs school vs Pitt might weigh things. My guess is that you are probably ok, but they are concerned with your borderline math score. Continue to show strong interest, but if you really concerned, if possible, take the SAT/ACTs again to try to get the math up a little.</p>
<p>I would like to caution those who are interested in ONLY the University of Pittsburgh to thoroughly read the Pitt Prestige application. I think the applicant may be asked to rank the other Pitt campuses for admission consideration. My daughter was accepted to one of the other Pitt campuses and now cannot re-apply to the University of Pittsburgh because of her acceptance to one of the accessory Pitt campuses. While this may be a terrific campus, she applied to University of Pittsburgh because of it’s size and location, and is not interested in attending this campus.</p>