<p>I searched the Pitt forum but didn't find much new information on the Accepted Honors Student visit schedule. Since my family attended today's session, I'll list the outline and some specifics.</p>
<p>Unlike our first campus visit that started in Alumni Hall, this visit started at the William Pitt Union which is right next to the Towers dorms. Registration was at 8:00 and opening remarks started at 8:30. There was a University Honors College presentation from 9:00 - 9:45 and then the group split up for Professional School Presentations (Pharmacy, Nursing, Engineering, Business and Arts & Sciences). Any students not interested in these presentations could attend one of three alternate sessions.</p>
<p>There was an Honors College Opportunities Fair in the Pitt Union ballroom from 11:00 - 2:00 - various tables and representatives from different groups and organizations.</p>
<p>Starting at noon, there were hourly sessions on the following areas:</p>
<p>Beyond the Classroom
Campus Tour
Upper Campus Tour including Honors Housing
Discover Pittsburgh Tour
Health Professionals Advising
Honors Faculty Panel
So What Happens Next?</p>
<p>The last session was from 2:15 to 3:15. As an added bonus, each family group received a wristband good for lunch in the Market Central cafeteria in Litchfield Towers.</p>
<p>Everything was well organized and all of the student participants were engaging and enthusiastic. It was well worth the drive and Pitt is looking like the front runner heading into the home stretch.</p>
<p>Thanks for the report @Fauster, we visited earlier. Did you happen to take the Honors Housing tour? We didn’t do that on our pre-acceptance visit. We toured a room in the Litchfield towers. </p>
<p>Any info from the Health Professionals Advising Panel would also be greatly appreciated. (S wasn’t premed at the time we visited either.)</p>
<p>Thanks for any and all additional information.</p>
<p>We toured Sutherland West (freshman Honors dorm) as part of the Upper Campus tour. Very nice accommodations. I believe a cluster of four double rooms share a bathroom and the current residents say they like it a lot.</p>
<p>We were going to attend the Health Professional Advising panel as son was accepted with the DPT guarantee but one of the administrators told us it didn’t really cover Physical Therapy. The admin did suggest that we stop by the School of Rehabilitation Science so we did. The Director of Admissions greeted us and reviewed the program from freshman year through the grad program. It was a very good day.</p>
<p>Sutherland which is freshman honors housing has a few configurations - suites with clusters of 2, 3 or 4 doubles sharing 1-2 baths, but there are also doubles with private bath. Both of my kids liked honors housing freshman year and Sutherland. Like Towers, it has a dining hall right downstairs which is convenient.</p>
<p>@amandakayak thanks for the clarification on Sutherland. I checked out the floorplan on-line and I guess it’s just luck of the draw as to what type of suite a student is placed.</p>
<p>@fauster My DS lived there Freshman year 2011-12 and I seem to remember when he was picking housing there was actually a choice of configuration. Since he picked honors housing, I think it gave him three choices within Sutherland. I’m not sure if that’s still the case. He had the two doubles with one shower and two sink/toilet between the two rooms. The down side to that is you have to clean your own bathroom…or not clean it as was the case with them I think with the bigger bathrooms shared by 7 or 8 people, the dorm staff cleans them. The rooms themselves I think were huge compared to Towers and the closets were really large! </p>
<p>No, all the bathrooms within suites are cleaned by students all over campus. Hall bathrooms for say a floor, like Towers, are cleaned by staff. When they get into honors housing, they put in preference of which config they want, but no guarantee they get that. I think my ds got his 3rd choice and my dd got her last choice - she’s in a suite of 8 girls.</p>
<p>The Pathfinder that gave us the tour of Upper Campus relayed his tale of woe regarding his cluster’s cleaning schedule for the bathrooms. Bottom line - they didn’t clean. Eventually, it got so bad that they pooled their cash, bought a metric ton of cleaning supplies, bombed the bathrooms & sealed the doors for 4 hours, and then went in with rubber gloves and face masks. The Moms in our group were aghast but the Dads just smiled and shook their heads.</p>
<p>And just a quick update - I’m officially a Panther Dad!</p>
I think with the bigger bathrooms shared by 7 or 8 people, the dorm staff cleans them. The rooms themselves I think were huge compared to Towers and the closets were really large! </p>