University of pittsburgh scholarship question

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I’m under the impression that Honors really isn’t that great;

Not according to Motion12345

There are more perks than that…for starters there is the BPhil and also, even though non honors students can take honors courses, honors college students have priority.</p>

<p>The faculty is also MUCH more accessible for research opportunities around the University (helps especially if you want to go to a grad school at Pitt and helps you learn much more than you would in a simple class) and the advisors for the Honors College are much better than and help more than your normal academic advisor would be (as well as better than what you would get at most other schools at Pitt’s level). The Honors College will also give you the resources to do whatever it is that you want to do. An example would be if you want to meet a French philosopher that currently lives in Paris, the Honors College will help you meet him (good luck doing that by yourself) or if you want to take a class on Heidegger that isn’t found at Pitt, then they will get you to let’s say Colombia University so that you may take the class. If you want to do some chemistry-related thing (come up with something) but you are Political Science major, then the advisors will still help you get in touch with the Chemistry department.</p>

<p>Also, the advantage of Honors Housing isn’t just to have the title of ‘Honors.’ One plus of going to universities such as the University of Chicago, Harvard University, etc. is that not only are the faculty dedicated and remarkably intelligent, but so are the students. The same holds true not so much of the University of Pittsburgh itself, but the Honors College. The students in it are supposed to be intellectually curious and aren’t going to college just for the parties as some unfortunate few do. You’d be hard-pressed to find a literature discussion group anywhere else on the Pittsburgh campus and you’d be equally as hard-pressed to find a large group of students that don’t merely want to have summer come or only care about what grade they have in a class, but rather want to truly learn and have intellectually stimulating discussions. True learning and discovery can only happen in a place that actively pursues it and just as the aforementioned universities pursue it, so do the students of the Honors College.</p>

<p>There are also the things such as the mock trial team, the academic quiz bowl team, the lecture series, and the four publications that are run through the Honors College.</p>

<p>As you can see, the Honors College isn’t good only for having a certain housing arrangement or giving a parent “pride” :P.

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