<p>I get so much useless crap from Pitt’s Honors College’s Dean that I want to look into it. I am going into Computer Engineering and what exactly will this Honors College get me? Any scholarships, etc?</p>
<p>I mean, Pitt’s School of Engineering is not anything special for Computer Engineering or anything. What are the draws to get me to take this school over a school like Georgia Tech or Northwestern?</p>
<p>3.45, 2160/32, Top 11% by the way.</p>
<p>I bet if the “useless crap” was informing you about a scholarship, it wouldn’t be so useless, right? My advice: Go to Northwestern or Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>Lurkness - you said it so well!</p>
<p>Your stats might be a tad too low for a scholarship. FYI, getting lots of mail from a school doesn’t then give you license to talk down about a school. It’s not that you said anything negative but the overall tone of your message comes across that way.</p>
<p>Nah I have read it and I can’t recall much about scholarships.</p>
<p>Thanks LurkNess.</p>
<p>Actually, those stats may be borderline for just getting into the Honors College as a freshman, as the average Honors College CR+M SAT was 1457, while the average GPA across the entire university was 3.87 with over half of the entire university’s class in the top 10%. It’s not necessarily a lock, in any case.</p>
<p>Anyway, to answer the question about the honors college, it’s forte is engaging its students in significant undergraduate research and grooming them for national and international fellowships and scholarship awards like the Goldwaters, Marshals, and Rhodes. It has been extremely successful nurturing student scholars, as it has been producing such award winners at rates higher than some Ivies. Really it is one of, if not the premiere honors college in the nation in this endeavor. It’s make up is sort of unique, in that it is an open membership system, so even if someone doesn’t get in with freshman admissions, they can work their way in if they are interested. Specifically regarding Computer Engineering, no, Pitt isn’t especially well known in this field ala a Carnegie Mellon, although its engineering is all around solid. That said, it has several collaboration and joint programs with Carnegie Mellon, whose campus overlaps with Pitt, and students at each school can cross-register, etc. It’s a really unique situation better described [url=<a href=“http://post-gazette.com/pg/10276/1092351-298.stm]here[/url”>http://post-gazette.com/pg/10276/1092351-298.stm]here[/url</a>]. </p>
<p>Anyway, those things may not interest you, or perhaps they are worth reading about or investigating depending on your interests and goals.</p>