<p>Thanks for the link!!! </p>
<p>One number I would love to see is how many accept their offers. Having heard of many students turning down full rides/scholarships to other schools for the Ivy league or their dream schools, it would be interesting to see the matriculation rate.</p>
<p>I know some schools will not offer the scholarship to another studient if it is turned down (U. of Del.), does anyone know if Pitt follows the same procedure?</p>
<p>Pitt's OAFA told me (a few years ago) that if somebody declines admission with scholarship, the do NOT offer it to the "next" person.</p>
<p>I wonder how big their backlog of unused scholarships is? It is a little misleading if they say they award 10 Chancellor Scholarships, buy only 5 kids matriculate. Then they have actually given 5 scholarships, not 10. I guess the money for any unused offers goes back into the kitty.</p>
<p>I never thought about this issue until I came across a school's yearly report. Buried in the back was a listing of all the scholarships awarded and the number that was accepted. From what I can remember, the numbers of full ride scholarships offered was around 20 but only 3 students accepted the offers. Essentially every college can claim to "award" scholarships but it is much more interesting to see how many accept their offers.</p>
<p>I read a similar document on the University of Maryland's site last year. It listed the number of each scholarship offered that year, how many in-state and how many out of state, and the percentage of each accepted. It was in the form of a table. I thought it was very interesting to see the numbers like that. I've searched the UMCP website and can't find it! I can't even find the common data set. But I've never seen similar info for Pitt.</p>
<p>My D and I were informed directly by an admissions officer that the minimum SAT score for for an in-state candidate for full-tuition scholarship was 1450 (at least for this year). Other scholarships at different SAT score levels do pertain - for example, OOS candidates with 1350-ish SAT scores would have been offered a $10,000 scholarship. In-state with the same scores received a $2,000 scholarship. Pitt is making a determined effort to attract strong OOS students.<br>
Also, for this year at least, every accepted engineering student received a minimum of a $1,000 scholarship. As others have noted above, Pitt also has several additional school-wide and departmental scholarships for various URM's.</p>
<p>^^^ That's good information! Thanks for posting.</p>
<p>I can't believe that some kids turn down full-rides just to pay the full price tag to an Ivy! The debt would be unimaginable...</p>
<p>Yup, it is kind of hard to turn down Harvard :)</p>
<p>Not if you can't afford it :-O</p>
<p>So true :) </p>
<p>There is nothing better than to graduate college with zero debt.</p>
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<p>do you know the ACT equivalent for the full-tuition scholarship? 33 or 34 ACT? </p>
<p>Also, I have 1370 SAT and 33 ACT. Will Pitt ignore my SAT score for scholarship considerations?</p>
<p>Pitt will convert the ACT to the SAT equivalent so send them the ACT score too. My son's 35 ACT score was coverted to a 1550 SAT score so a 34 would be 1500 and 33 would be 1450. </p>
<p>Please remember that it was a "minimum" score for this year. This may change and Pitt may use other criterias in the process (grades, GPA, ranking etc.). I recall reading about students with the 1450 SAT who didn't get the full tuition but partial scholarships instead or nothing at all.</p>
<p>wow 1450 that's on the low end of what i've seen for SAT/ACT conversion. but i guess it makes sense to just say that 33 ACT is the minimum for consideration.</p>
<p>Their scale is lower than what I've seen also. Did they raise the score for the honors college? I seem to recall it was only 1350/31 during our visit last year (or maybe my memory is faulty!). On the site, they are requiring a 1400/32 and top 5% of the class.</p>
<p>We did not discuss ACT scores with the Pitt folks, so I have no idea what ACT-SAT equivalence Pitt uses. And yes, we were told that the SAT 1450 (Math/Verbal) was the absolute minimum SAT threshold for the "normal" in-state full-tuition scholarships. Yes, Pitt would look at GPA and class rank (if available) for the scholarships, but the SAT value (or ACT equivalent) was a mandatory minimum. I want to emphasize that there is a distinction between in-state and out-of state applicants for the various scholarships and dollar values. Please be aware that these SAT/ACT levels can change each year, what was true for the 2008 academic year may not be true for the 2009 academic year.
Remember, Pitt has rolling admissions - early applicants do have an advantage across the board - that may account for some variances in who and who did not receive some scholarships.
I don't think I've ever heard or seen what the threshold levels are for the Honors College. Where did you folks see those?</p>
<p>It's hard to figure what Pitt is looking for. There was a poster, Chrys, who was admitted to Pitt this past year with a $10,000 a year scholarship. That was great, but it seemed to me that she should have received more. She had a 33 ACT, 4.0 UW, and was NMSF. You would think that the 33 ACT converted to a 1450 SAT at least and that she would have received a full-tuition scholarship. But no. She also had a 1390/2130 SAT, so she didn't know if Pitt had decided to use her SAT score instead of converting her ACT. I don't think she ever got a definitive answer.</p>
<p>She ended up staying in-state (Ohio), where she is getting a good deal. I mean, there could be other factors that I don't know about. For instance, I don't know when she filed her application. We know that it's important to file early for the most scholarship consideration, and the early bird gets the money.</p>
<p>You can find the requirements in the Honors College site.<br>
[url=<a href="http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/about/eligibility.html%5DEligibility%5B/url">http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/about/eligibility.html]Eligibility[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I know my son applied in July during one of their open houses. There was no application fee. He had a copy of his essay with him so he submitted it at the same time.</p>
<p>I like to think that Pitt gives the more prestigious scholarships to atypical students. I received a Chancellor's Scholarship for 2008 and I certainly don't fit into the mold of the applied, college-bound student. The people I spoke to at the honors college and those who interviewed me weren't concerned with my SAT scores or my paucity of APs. </p>
<p>It seems many students apply to Pitt with solid test scores, but the honors college tends toward the more unorthodox for their scholarships. Its one of the main reasons I accepted the scholarship.</p>
<p>Once you are the finalist for any of the full ride scholarships (Jefferson Scholar/UVA, Danforth/Washington U, Robertson/Duke etc.), I would think the SAT scores, ranking, grades don't matter anymore. All the finalists should be similar in their academic performance and it will be the interview process that determines who gets the scholarship.</p>