<p>For anyone who's applied or who is applying, are you/did you use two academic recommendations or did you use one academic and one "other"? (ie. music, leadership, etc.)</p>
<p>Thanks and if anyone wants to PM me, that would be fine.</p>
<p>I used two academic because I also applied to GAP and that one required a community one, so I didn’t want to do 2 community…</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply. What is GAP? </p>
<p>Thank-you.</p>
<p>When I applied a few years ago, I used one academic letter and one music letter. I had my AP Chem teacher write the letter since I am a science major (it might be good to get a letter from a teacher related to your intended field), and I got the other from my band teacher since we were really close.</p>
<p>I think my son will go ahead and use one from his physics mentor/teacher at the university where he does research and then from his AP Lit teacher. He does have a good one from a music/community/church person, as well, and he is particularly close to her. Just not sure which would be best for a second one, but he’ll probably go with the AP Lit teacher since he’s had her for 3 years.</p>
<p>This post made me think that the reason why my S was not invited for Chancellors is that he never submitted recommendations in the first place. He did realize that he hasn’t gotten (at least) one scholarship is because his school doesn’t rank and so the school doesn’t know he’s in the “top 10%”… so he’s going to have the GC take care of that. I wonder if he submitted recs now that he could get the Chancellor invite.</p>
<p>Any experience for advice?</p>
<p>GAP is the guaranteed admissions program to the Medical School.</p>
<p>crazymomster,</p>
<p>It’s definitely worth trying. Can you contact admissions and ask?</p>
<p>My son did submit one LOR with the app. but quite honestly, it was a recycled one from his physics mentor that he used to apply to RSI! (It actually mentioned MIT in the letter) I just kind of added it at the last minute to the application since I had a copy in my documents. (I’m a homeschool parent, so I’m in charge of all the administrative stuff so it was easy to do)</p>
<p>Actually when I looked more closely, I believe the issue was that the school doesn’t rank. For Chancellors, it says be in the top 5% (LOL… that means he is the top 1.33 person in the class). So I will have him talk to the GC to see what she will do. You can apparently “self-nominate” if you meet the usual criteria, so that’s where S will go from here.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>My school didn’t rank either. I think all our GCs said we were top 5% students when they submitted stuff.</p>
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<p>I did one in-field and one out-of-field. My “in-field” was my honors chem/AP Chem teacher (had him twice) since I was engineering. My “out-of-field” was my Latin 1/AP Latin teacher (had her twice over 5 years).</p>
<p>Thanks, AwesomeOpossum. That seems reasonable. I haven’t read all of your history so I don’t know the answer to this. Did you get the Chancellor’s Scholarship? What were your stats? What schools did you turn down to go to Pitt? </p>
<p>My son definitely wants to visit Pitt in the spring. He’s always looking too far ahead, though. Right now, he’s got to finish 3 essays in 2 weeks and make sure his teachers follow through on their recs.</p>
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<p>I didn’t get Chancellor’s. I had a 3.98W I think around a 3.85 UW GPA, 8 APs (4-4s, 4-5s) all honors classes otherwise. 780M, 700W, 700Essay SAT (so 1480/2180). I got the $10k OOS plus $2k/yr Engineering (now am on $10k OOS plus full tuition).</p>
<p>I turned down: Georgia Tech, Emory, William & Mary, Virginia Tech, Case Western, and CMU to go to Pitt. Best money offer and I liked the campus. William & Mary and V-Tech are in state for me.</p>
<p>Anyone who is filling out the application, how are you formatting the activites, awards, and employment fields? The break tags (<br>) are not working for me and it all jumbles together!</p>