Pitt Honors vs PSU Honors vs UMD Honors

ophiolite
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:45:08 +0000

Don’t know much about PSU or MD’s but as for Pitts…it’s what you do that makes it.

You are not required to take a certain number of honors classes and such, and it is not very organized.

I wasn’t in the honors college when I was accepted, but maintained a QPA high enough to join the honors college after my first semester. However, all I knew about was taking honors college classes. Of which, I only took one before graduation.

If you are serious about the honors college at Pitt, look into the BPhil option and try to go for that. Otherwise, the honors college doesn’t seem quite worth it imho. Any student can take honors college classes with permission and the class I took was cross-registered with a non-honors class (this is unusual, but does occur occassionally).