<p>Our daughter lived in Forbes freshmen year and Forbes/Craig apts soph.year and will return to CF as a junior. We had hoped that living in Forbes would provide the best opportunity for meeting and living with like minded students. Set the tone, if you will for the college experience. Our daughter turned down an IVY for Pitt and we wanted to do our best to make it a challenging and motivating experience. She did indeed bond with a great group of girls and guys. Could that have happened in Towers, sure. As a freshmen she did take advantage of honors activities/ trips/dinners etc. The honors living community seemed to have a pretty good budget. I have heard the rumor that there will be no separate honors/Forbes orientation this year so the budget must have been cut. Academically, she has only taken one honors class and it was not easy. She would only recommend taking a course that you were REALLY interested in. The idea of a popularity contest was not something she experienced. Like LNMonster our biggest plus from PITT was the full OOS tuition scholarship. As the employment situation in our house has changed dramatically, we thank our lucky stars for that bonus. The honors community and classes are the icing on the cake.</p>