<p>Hello, so I am already going up for the admitted students day on March 23, but I also want to do the Honors day the day before. So far, I haven't been able to find any information for registering for it online, but would like to get that taken care of. Is there somewhere I can call or email to register for it that anyone knows of? Or has anyone else registered already and can tell me what the did? Thanks so much!</p>
<p>You should be able to sign up online the same way you did for the other. If you have a problem with it you can always call the university honors college (they run that info session, not office of admissions)</p>
<p>@goodautumn We went to both a couple of years ago. There is some duplication from one day to the to other, but I was glad we went to both as it gave us a chance to just walk around the campus. Be sure to take an upper campus tour if you can, and the City tour was nice if you are familiar with Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>I agree with TitanMom. Last year, we went to the weekend in March that had both the honors day and the admitted student’s day. It was impossible to attend all of the sessions in one day, so I was glad we attended both. I would suggest that you look at the agendas ahead and plan your day (if they didn’t send the agendas they are usually available online). For honors day, attend the sessions that are only available on that day. Then on admitted student’s day, you can go on the tours, financial aid session, Pittstart session, and any other session that is held on both days. We also toured the city which helped my D decide on PITT. Also look at the freshmen dorms at Sutherland (upper campus tour) my daughter loves living there. The kids are not Nerds – that was my daughters concern… they are very nice, cute, fun – but also happen to be smart and are serious about school. They do not spend all weekend studying – they go out on the town (movies PittArts events, etc), to football and basketball games and other school sponsored events; they just don’t party a lot.</p>
<p>Thanks - this really helped me. My DS is in honors / engineering. We really feel that he should either live with the honors and/or engineering students. Of course he doesn’t want to because he “doesn’t want to be with nerds” - hello - isn’t he an engineer? he is an honors kid too. I’m glad to hear that they are not all “nerds” - will help my case - he just doesn’t realize the benefit of it all at this point. This parenting seniors is tough stuff.</p>
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<p>I highly recommend living in the UHC dorm if he plans on taking honors classes his freshman year. This is because they are combined (at least were, I may be wrong now) with the honors classes for non-engineering students (i.e. Honors Chem was taken by both Engineering and A&S students, honors physics, calc, etc.) so that he’d be around more of his classmates. Plus a lot of the honors engineers chose to live in UHC housing as opposed to the SPACE housing and I had UHC SPACE friends who admitted that they wish they had lived in UHC housing instead of SPACE, since they were always coming over to study and hang out anyways.</p>
<p>Also-- most UHC kids are not “nerds” they’re just students who are more focused on academics than anything else (i.e. at least 51% of focus = academics). I had friends who still went out, had fun, etc. In fact, we had a video game floor, movie floor, “party floor” (we turned our lounge into a giant carboard box maze at one point), etc. Plus at least for UHC the level of trust was HUGE. I never locked my door or laptop/valuables, left my textbook/calculator all over the building, etc. Best choice of my life to do UHC housing all three years I was on campus.</p>
<p>Palves, my daughter has been in Honors housing for three years. She’s and engineer, calls herself a nerd (but I don’t think she is), and is very social. She loves it and it has been a great experience for her. I wish she could do it her senior year as well.</p>