<p>I believe that Sutherland ( suites only ? )does not provide cleaning service… you are responsible to clean your own bathrooms. The Towers has cleaning service for the communal bathrooms.</p>
<p>Lots of people put down Towers, but my daughter has loved her years there. Freshman year she lived in Tower B in a double, and sophomore year she was in Tower C in a single. Yes, the rooms are not large, but the convenience of living in Towers makes up for that. You’re right on top of Market Central, in the heart of campus. If anything goes wrong you can pop down to Panther Central. And Towers is the social center of the campus, and you’ll meet everyone.</p>
<p>I have the chance of staying in Sutherland with the business kids. But I sort of cannot decide because of the advantages and disadvantages of staying there or in Towers.</p>
<p>Sutherland are a lot nicer dorms I hear but it is also on upper campus away from everything and I heard a lot more upperclassmen stay there. Towers are “crappy” I heard, or atleast compared to Sutherland but it is right in the middle of everything and convenient and also the main place where Freshman stay so it wouldn’t take long to meet a lot of new kids.</p>
<p>What should I do?</p>
<p>My son decided to spend his freshman year at Towers and he loved it. It is centrally located and it seems the majority of freshmen live there. It is so convenient to everything. For freshman year, it made sense to live among the incoming freshmen, make your friends and then try to get a suite together as sophomores. </p>
<p>Next year, son was lucky enough to get a suite with some friends on the upper campus. It does seem that the upperclassmen end up on the upper campus :)</p>
<p>This is a question ONLY for a current Pitt student…I’m reading more and more about special honors retreats only for interviewees, etc for Chancellors. I was not picked for an interview, yet I got into two ivies and another very selective school. I guess my question is: are the resources at the honors college very much focused on those 100 or so people who were initially picked for an interview in their senior year? I was mostly considering Pitt instead of these schools because of the seemingly more opportunities offered…yet…I don’t want to go to Pitt if I am just “one in the crowd” without any chance at special opportunities. Also, I am wondering, is the honors college very elitist? Any answers much appreciated!</p>
<p>The honors college isn’t very elitist. The only perks you get are chances at honors housing and taking honors classes. I have done neither and I was admitted into the honors college. Plus, if you want to take an honors course, you can either ask permission or ask to “reapply” to the honors college. The honors college hosts different events that anyone can attend. But just because it is open to everyone doesn’t mean the discussion is any less enlightening or engaging.</p>
<p>However, I do not feel as thought I am “one of the crowd”. If you are a stellar student, opportunities find you anyway.</p>
<p>Anon_person</p>
<p>I am interested to hear the answers. Can I suggest you start a new thread so that the question gets seen more clearly??</p>
<p>Is the Philosophy dept in the Cathedral of Learning? And are all the classes held in there?</p>
<p>I agree with emi… while the honors college offers some opportunities, it is not very elitist. Anybody can take an honors class and there is no priority registration perk. The most visible thing that says “honors college” is the honors housing; but, there is not enough of that and honors housing is by application only. Also, honors housing assignment can be sort of a popularity contest rather than an academic one.</p>
<p>I like Pitt, but I wouldn’t go there exclusively for the honors college unless they gave some serious money.</p>
<p>Hey,
I’m HIGHLY considering going to Pitt for “pre-med” I’ve been accepted, and I live just outside of the city so the campus really feels like home to me. But I do have a question: Does Pitt’s pre-med preparation live up to the standards of it’s awesome med school? </p>
<p>I don’t know if I would have a better chance at getting into med school by going to go to a more “prestigious” university, or will Pitt give me the personal attention and resources (UPMC!) that med schools might be looking for besides GPA and MCATs?</p>
<p>Does anyone know the % acceptance into med schools for Pitt?</p>
<p>Will I have to stay in a separate dorm for students majoring in a health related field?
Believe it or not, I’m kind of excited to stay in the towers. They get a bad rap, but I think it would be an awesome experience!</p>
<p>Thanks in advance. Any suggestions/encouragement would be awesome.
Convince me to go to Pitt! :D</p>
<p>colclifmuir,</p>
<p>Forbes’ distance from the Cathedral is not a problem at all. It’s a 15 minute walk-at most-if you drag your feet and get struck behind a horde of slow walkers…</p>
<p>Any opinions on honors housing versus global community?</p>
<p>is it too late to apply?</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone can give me advice on housing at Pitt. There seems to be a fair amount of information for freshmen on this thread, but I’m an exchange student entering my junior year who will be spending the Fall semester at Pitt, and I don’t really have any idea about housing for upperclassmen.</p>
<p>One of my concerns is that I don’t know any students at Pitt, so I’d like to live somewhere I can easily get to know people. Secondly, is the air conditioning even needed in the months of September - December? (I’m guessing they only refer to cooling by that and that everyone has heaters considering how cold it gets) Oh yea, and I want to live somewhere I can be part of the whole college experience, and not hidden away in some forsaken corner of campus.</p>
<p>Info on this and anything else I should consider while making a decision would be greatly appreciated :)</p>
<p>All housing in Pittsburgh has heat (unless your landlord is really negligent) and some are air conditioned (either central air or window units). August, September and even early October are warm and humid, so air is nice. Students who don’t have air use fans. If your program will be done in May, you won’t need air then. What program are you in? You may prefer to be convenient to your work. Will you be spending the summer here? Leases are usually for 12 months but some do not allow subletting.</p>
<p>You can check for off-campus housing on these websites:
[Sublets</a> and Roommates](<a href=“http://www.ocl.pitt.edu/RoomSublets/index.html]Sublets”>http://www.ocl.pitt.edu/RoomSublets/index.html)
[pittsburgh</a> all housing wanted classifieds - craigslist](<a href=“http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/hsw/]pittsburgh”>http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/hsw/)</p>
<p>Grad students commonly live in North Oakland, Shadyside and Squirrel Hill. You can find apartments, townhouses or rooms within a larger house. South Oakland is mostly undergrad students and is noisier.</p>
<p>Are you eligible for on-campus housing in a dorm?</p>
<p>Thanks for those links lkf725. I’m only at Pitt for a semester - I’ll be done by December, so I’m not really looking at off campus accommodation. They’ve sent me the brochures etc for the on campus housing, so I’m pretty sure I’m eligible for it. I’m in ECE, so I guess I should try and stay somewhere close to where those classes are held. Also, I won’t be there during the summer - I’ll get there a week/ 10 days before classes start. Though I’m pretty used to temperatures around 30 deg C, so I don’t think I’ll have a problem with heat.</p>
<p>I saw a few pics of rooms and bathrooms in the Towers, and that put me off quite a bit. Pennsylvania and Panther Hall seem nice, though they do seem a little far away from most other stuff. Is that usually a problem for most people living there or does it just look like they’re really far away on the map?</p>
<p>I don’t think that Panther and Pennsylvania are really too far from the engineering building, but they are up a steep hill and farther away than the towers. Towers are a three minute walk across Fifth Avenue; some upperclassmen live in Tower C (singles), but most live in apartments. My son lives in an apartment in Webster Hall (across from the Heinz Chapel which is next to the Cathedral of Learning) and it takes him maybe 10 minutes to walk to Swanson (unless he jumps on a bus with his free bus pass!). If you are not too interested in a dorm, lots of students sublet apartments. Some need a roommate for a person who has graduated, some have a roommate that is studying abroad, etc. Some people may be subletting a single apartment or room for one semester due to travel. You might find something on that off-campus housing web page.</p>
<p>Change of subject - Biology instructors: Does anyone have any advice or input into what instructors are best for incoming Freshman entering a medical field program. I read somewhere that there were some to totally avoid and some that were the best.
Our son’s PittStart session is soon and would appreciate any and all input.</p>
<p>I know that I have Ghosh and i’ve herd that she is one of the best, at least one that is reasonable. I know that other bio professors curve the grades so that the average is a 75…</p>