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Is there any brave soul among us who is willing to call the school and ask when merit scholarship information will be sent for priority admits? :lol: I’m not quite there yet, but will probably work up the courage in a few days if I haven’t heard anything.

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22 minutes ago, atomizer said:

Is there any brave soul among us who is willing to call the school and ask when merit scholarship information will be sent for priority admits? :lol: I’m not quite there yet, but will probably work up the courage in a few days if I haven’t heard anything.

I emailed last week and the answer I got was "the end of Feb."

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4 minutes ago, TooExcited&Nervous said:

I emailed last week and the answer I got was "the end of Feb."

Ah, interesting—as in letters will be MAILED then? Did they specify whether it would actually be via letter or some other method?

Thanks!

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26 minutes ago, atomizer said:

Ah, interesting—as in letters will be MAILED then? Did they specify whether it would actually be via letter or some other method?

Thanks!

Yes mailed, but it also would be available on the my pitt because that's where we would accept the offer. 

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Ah wonderful, now I have a new reason to start obsessively checking a Pitt-related website! There was something nice to the the idea that scholarship info was being sent exclusively via snail mail, which I *only* receive once a day...

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Wait....slightly confused. So we will be mailed the official letters, and in that letter, it will give us log-in information for My Pitt to accept the offer? Thanks for clarifying! 

Also am I the only one that feels like the acceptance is a dream until you get the physical letter? haha. I keep checking the application portal just to double check that its REAL!

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1 hour ago, momo493 said:

Wait....slightly confused. So we will be mailed the official letters, and in that letter, it will give us log-in information for My Pitt to accept the offer? Thanks for clarifying! 

Also am I the only one that feels like the acceptance is a dream until you get the physical letter? haha. I keep checking the application portal just to double check that its REAL!

(1) A few days after submitting your application, you should have received an email providing you with login instructions for My Pitt.  So you should be able to log in already.  BUT the My Pitt portal is weird, and for most of us it still says application "incomplete" even though we have already been accepted via the Apply Yourself website!  I stopped checking the My Pitt portal for admissions info, but now it sounds like the site will become relevant for finding out about our financial aid offer.  I'll believe it when I see it, but I hope it's true, because I'd rather find out online than wait for a letter to cross the country.

(2) Yes, I totally feel you.  It's been 10+ days since my online acceptance and I still haven't received the original letter.  I think this is typical, but still...I'd like to get it!

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2 hours ago, atomizer said:

(1) A few days after submitting your application, you should have received an email providing you with login instructions for My Pitt.  So you should be able to log in already.  BUT the My Pitt portal is weird, and for most of us it still says application "incomplete" even though we have already been accepted via the Apply Yourself website!  I stopped checking the My Pitt portal for admissions info, but now it sounds like the site will become relevant for finding out about our financial aid offer.  I'll believe it when I see it, but I hope it's true, because I'd rather find out online than wait for a letter to cross the country.

(2) Yes, I totally feel you.  It's been 10+ days since my online acceptance and I still haven't received the original letter.  I think this is typical, but still...I'd like to get it!

Seems like there is a trend for wonky websites. I haven't even received said email pertaining to My Pitt! I am wondering if it is because I was a Pitt student and already have a My Pitt login? Let me go find out!!

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21 minutes ago, atomizer said:

Ah, interesting.  That might explain it!  Do report back :) Especially if you see scholarship info!

So, I just went clicking on every little nook and cranny on My Pitt. (If you all go to Pitt, you'll find that My Pitt is VERY complex, and you'll have to dig to find certain things).

I didn't see anything pertaining to financial aid, or even accepting an admissions offer. However, after clicking about 5000 times, there is a little student info section that shows your application history (whether undergrad or grad school), and there I can see social work listed as incomplete. But I wasn't able to click on anything! So, all I learned from this was that I am most likely using the same MyPitt account as I did in undergrad.

Maybe accepting the offer isn't active on the site yet? 

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As of this time in 2016 (according to that thread I linked a few days ago), it seems like all priority admits had heard about financial aid.  Hopefully we'll all be hearing soon too!  :) 

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Did anyone receive the grantee admittance for GPA? If so, have you heard about funding yet? The lady told me if would be around this time, well the middle of February, but February is almost over...

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1 hour ago, TooExcited&Nervous said:

Did anyone receive the grantee admittance for GPA? If so, have you heard about funding yet? The lady told me if would be around this time, well the middle of February, but February is almost over...

Do you mean the guaranteed admission for have a 3.4+? I have a 3.9 and no word on funding yet. 

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12 hours ago, TooExcited&Nervous said:

Yes, sorry I was barely looking when I was typing that lol

Didn’t you say earlier this week that they told you “end” of Feb? In that case we have a fewwww more days. I’m ready to be done with this waiting!

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46 minutes ago, atomizer said:

Didn’t you say earlier this week that they told you “end” of Feb? In that case we have a fewwww more days. I’m ready to be done with this waiting!

They technically gave me two different answers. My letter said the middle of February and the email they sent said end. 

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Oh interesting. The letter I received only said “merit scholarship awards will be mailed in February 2018.” There was nothing more specific. My letter was pretty recent, so maybe they revised it when they realized that mid-February wasn’t going to happen.

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41 minutes ago, atomizer said:

Oh interesting. The letter I received only said “merit scholarship awards will be mailed in February 2018.” There was nothing more specific. My letter was pretty recent, so maybe they revised it when they realized that mid-February wasn’t going to happen.

Maybe so, because I received my letter in Nov.

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Definitely not for sure.  I'm not making any decisions without scholarship info!  Meanwhile I received a good offer from one of my top choices, and I'm waiting to hear from a third.  I probably won't decide for 3 or 4 more weeks.

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34 minutes ago, atomizer said:

Definitely not for sure.  I'm not making any decisions without scholarship info!  Meanwhile I received a good offer from one of my top choices, and I'm waiting to hear from a third.  I probably won't decide for 3 or 4 more weeks.

I know the deadline for Pitt is March 16, all my other schools gave me until March 15. But I will probably commit to Pitt after I visit during my spring break.

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I think Pitt will probably give an extension if needed.  I hope I won't need to ask for one, but it's possible that I will still be waiting to hear back from one school by then.

I really hope we receive our scholarship info this week!  I hope it's true that it will show up on the Pitt portal, because it will be agonizing to wait an extra week while the letter winds its way through the U.S. mail system...

Edited by atomizer

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