<p>I have a couple questions about Forbes Hall:</p>
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<li>How many people apply to live in Forbes, and how many are accepted to live there?</li>
<li>Is the whole dorm the "UHC Living Learning Community," or is that only a specific floor(s)?</li>
<li>How does Pitt decide who gets to live in Forbes?</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Unless the rules changed this year, the honors dorm is not synonymous with a living learning community. Last year, S read the brochure about the various living learning communities, wasn’t interested, applied to live in Forbes Hall and got accepted. As far as I know none of his friends from Forbes Hall are members of a living learning community. I can’t answer your other questions, though. Good luck!</p>
<p>The whole dorm is an honors dorm, but not a living/learning like SPACE or whatever the international learning community in Sutherland is called. DD opted for the learning community (the one in Sutherland) freshman year and regretted it almost immediately. Most of the other students were humanities majors and she had no one to bounce questions off of or to study with. She opted for honors housing sophomore year and is much happier with that arrangement.</p>
<p>Here’s official info, including numbers of resident, etc. I believe there is also an online tour of each residence hall on the main residence hall webpage.</p>
<p>[Forbes</a> Hall](<a href=“http://www.pc.pitt.edu/housing/halls/forbes.html]Forbes”>http://www.pc.pitt.edu/housing/halls/forbes.html)</p>
<p>Has anyone ever requested or been able to arrange a tour of Forbes before you decided where you wanted to live as a Freshman?</p>
<p>Last year at the visit day for The Honors College, which was in the spring sometime, the tour included Forbes and the Towers. They don’t request honors housing until May.</p>
<p>I don’t see anything on the Honors College site regarding visit day. Anyone know what month it’s in?</p>
<p>There are two dates, one was late March, the other was earlier. The information comes later on.</p>
<p>My son received a note with the dates of the Honors Days
The University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid will be hosting programs for admitted students, soon, so we are writing to alert you to the dates they will be offered. As you are eligible to take classes in the University Honors, you might be most interested in one of our ‘Honors Days’. These occur on:
• Friday, March 18, 2011
• Friday, April 15, 2011
You can register online for an ‘Honors Day’ at [University</a> of Pittsburgh: Undergraduate Admissions & Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.oafa.pitt.edu/programs/honorsday]University”>http://www.oafa.pitt.edu/programs/honorsday) or call 1-877-SEE-PITT. You will be receiving an invitation to our Honors Day in early winter.</p>
<p>Thanks TitanMom16! It’s good to get the dates this early as we’re from OOS and need to make arrangements.</p>