<p>“Relentless Research” - boy, would my family agree with that! I’m an attorney by training so I spent 15 years doing research for a living and I guess it’s hard to break the habit. </p>
<p>Question for lkf725 - we haven’t sent in the deposit yet, but will probably do that after D and H get back from arizona. I understand that after you send in the deposit (we’ll do it online), then Pitt sends the dorm forms. If you get the deposit in before May 1, there is guaranteed housing, but will it be hard to get in the towers? That looks like the place to be for a freshman.</p>
<p>Also, is it a real killer to double major if you’re in engineering? I’ve heard that is the killer major no matter what school you go to. Pitt seems to have a balanced life attitude, and the staff at the honors college told us they encouraged double majors, but is that just asking for trouble in engineering? </p>
<p>Also, since Pitt does not do early registration for classes for the honors kids, does that matter so much with engineering classes (as opposed to say, english, history, foreign lanquage,etc.) My older d is in LSU honors college and all that priority is a major plus - in fact it is almost the primary benefit, but then LSU has 31,000 students and Pitt has only 16,000. The (perhaps)Pitt d says she doesn’t think there’ll be long lines of people trying to get into honors calculus and honors physics (we are also realizing we won’t get first crack at Pittstart now).</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for your answers.</p>