DD just got into UPitt Honors College!

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Anonymous wrote:DH does alum stuff around here for Pitt. Definite trending school for this area. Genuinely nice and happy people.

Its always been a popular school in this area.

Ok, local alums are tracking increasing attendance by area kids over the last 8 years.

Many of us local alums don't participate in that stuff but we are here, grew up here and came back home after graduating. It was very popular when I went.

And more so now. You can get involved and meet with prospective students or act as a mentor.

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Curious about her GPA and test scores - are you willing to share them?

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Congrats. Visited Pitt over the summer and loved it!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH does alum stuff around here for Pitt. Definite trending school for this area. Genuinely nice and happy people.

Its always been a popular school in this area.

Ok, local alums are tracking increasing attendance by area kids over the last 8 years.

Many of us local alums don't participate in that stuff but we are here, grew up here and came back home after graduating. It was very popular when I went.

And more so now. You can get involved and meet with prospective students or act as a mentor.

No thanks. Got my own kids to worry about.

[Anonymous]

That is great news. We toured Pitt, and my son applied. We really liked it. I was very impressed with the engineering school.

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Anonymous wrote:OP-no word on scholarship yet, I guess it comes later. We live in NY (have a summer place in St. Michael's) and dd did not want to apply to SUNY schools, this was the compromise, this and U Vermont.

You are very lucky.

But I would not want to be your friend.

Wut?

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about her GPA and test scores - are you willing to share them?

her stats: NY suburban public. Ranked 2/248. 105.38 average through q1 senior year. 16 APs. Strong Arts and Athletic ECs...

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16 AP’s?? Good God. The earliest you can take them in my DD’s college prep private is Junior and only 2. Curious how this is possible.

Sat/act score?

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yes, I agree with the AP situation. It's terrible and I am thinking of moving my youngest for this reason. It's something that the kids themselves, who are competitive by nature, just run with. Not all of them, but certainly the top 15-20 kids. She only took the SAT is 1460.

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Congratulations!

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Anonymous wrote:yes, I agree with the AP situation. It's terrible and I am thinking of moving my youngest for this reason. It's something that the kids themselves, who are competitive by nature, just run with. Not all of them, but certainly the top 15-20 kids. She only took the SAT is 1460.

1460 sat and 16 ap's is weird.

i was expecting 1500+

how many 4's/5's in the ap tests she's taken?

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Also, regarding how this is possible: their school is 7-12. So it's basically JR HS and SR HS in one building. Before they leave their middle school there are placement meetings for each kid by committee. They evaluate state standardized tests, ERBs, and grades they 6th and based on these they are either in "Regents" or "Accelerated". Regents track is the normal track (that you and I were probably on back in the day) Fully accelerate is accelerated in Math/Sci and ENG/SS. Some kids are partially accelerated either Math/sci or ENG/SS.

My kids are fully accelerated. So, by 9th grade they are taking what the 10th grade Regents kids are taking. So they accelerate 7/8th to get ahead a year by 9th. As a result, My kid could take AP Human Geo and AP Psych in 9th, preAP World. In 10th: AP World, AP music theory, AP comp sci….and it goes on and on

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Congrats! The daughter of a family friend is in UPitt Honors and she has been thrilled with her time there! So happy and couldn’t imagine herself anywhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:yes, I agree with the AP situation. It's terrible and I am thinking of moving my youngest for this reason. It's something that the kids themselves, who are competitive by nature, just run with. Not all of them, but certainly the top 15-20 kids. She only took the SAT is 1460.

1460 sat and 16 ap's is weird.

i was expecting 1500+

how many 4's/5's in the ap tests she's taken?

You’re obnoxious. That is a fantastic score.

OP, I am the one that asked about the 16. Good for her. It sounds like your daughter has worked her off. I hope she is happy and can enjoy the rest of her Senior year. My Junior is VERY interested in Pitt. It is popular at her private.

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Why are people grilling OP about her kid's individual AP scores? Weird.

I will say that when we visited Pitt this year, they seemed to have a pretty firm 1490/33 cutoff (with a solid A average) for merit aid consideration, but I hope they make an exception for OP's kid! The honors college invitation seems like a good sign.