Pitt Has Started Sending Merit Award Notificatication

[Anonymous]

1500/4.9. Accepted into Business School + guaranteed acceptance into MBA (if attends undergrad) + $15K a year + Honors College.

[Anonymous]

CS, honor, $15k merit

[Anonymous]

$20K engineering honors

[Anonymous]

My child got accepted almost 4 weeks ago and hasn’t received any merit. They received an email today saying admission decision , in the body of the email is the “personalized video” of admission into Pitt with their name and the school of engineering written across during a general Pitt video. Was wondering if anyone else received such an email after their acceptance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child got accepted almost 4 weeks ago and hasn’t received any merit. They received an email today saying admission decision , in the body of the email is the “personalized video” of admission into Pitt with their name and the school of engineering written across during a general Pitt video. Was wondering if anyone else received such an email after their acceptance?

DD also received one but had already received merit and offer to join the honors college. So it didn’t feel like new information.

[Anonymous]

We got the video today (DS was accepted back in Sept). I think it is just a hype video - not sharing new info. We haven't heard about merit or honors. DS has a high SAT but lower GPA (compared to the others reporting on this thread).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got the video today (DS was accepted back in Sept). I think it is just a hype video - not sharing new info. We haven't heard about merit or honors. DS has a high SAT but lower GPA (compared to the others reporting on this thread).

DC was accepted in October but also no word re: honors or merit. 4.0 uw GPA, max rigor, and very high SAT. The communication today was puzzling and a bit disappointing, but I'm glad to hear that others got the same communication.

[Anonymous]

We also got the video but no merit offer - older child was offered $20k/year so younger child is disappointed

[Anonymous]

For those sharing merit and honors information - did your child do anything extra to "apply" for either? Need to ask my DC if they have checked their portal.

Not sure if they'd qualify or not - 1450 SAT, 4 and 5s on APs, and 3.7 unweighted gpa from private school

[Anonymous]

It is possible for honors college that our child marked in the common app that they were interested, but nothing beyond that.

[Anonymous]

Nothing extra needed to apply for merit-honors college was just a checked box on the common app-nothing extra.

[Anonymous]

DS at private school, 1530 SAT, 4.0 uw 4.55 w got 10K Dietrich and into honors college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I could see a student preferring Pitt to Virginia Tech (instate)

100%. Pittsburgh is a great city and appeaed to my city kid (DC born and raised). He felt like Blacksburg is the boonies and so hard to get to. I was shocked (I grew up in the sticks so Tech seemed idyllic to me).

[Anonymous]

OOS 4.3 (3.9 UW) 1450 SAT Honors acceptance to Dietrich school 2 week after acceptance. Month later 40K merit (10K year)

Happy to have solid back up pre med track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OOS 4.3 (3.9 UW) 1450 SAT Honors acceptance to Dietrich school 2 week after acceptance. Month later 40K merit (10K year)

Happy to have solid back up pre med track.

Do you know if your child marked something on common app about being interested in honors college? My DD has almost exactly the same stats and hasn't received a merit offer. But I am not sure she checked an interest in honors college.