<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm currently a student at CUA in D.C and I'm really most likely going to transfer next year. I really love the idea of Pitt, but I'm just concerned about a few things: I'm pretty liberal, and obviously I found it an issue holding that political stance here, does Pitt have a liberal reputation? What are the people like? Would it be hard to make friends as a transfer? I'm currently in small classrooms right now and I'm pretty sure I won't see that there. Is that difficult to adjust to? Will I still have the opportunity to meet with teachers? It's definitely a more academically prestigious school than CUA, right? Do they have a good political science department? What's the social scene?</p>
<p>Sorry for all of the questions! Any type of advice would be greatly appreciated!!!</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Social scene as in bars/parties?</p>
<p>Few bars located near campus, but the city has pockets of bar areas that are really the most active…Southside, Station Square, the Strip District, North Shore.</p>
<p>Some house parties, nothing to wild, ditto Greek scene. The frats have some parties, but generally speaking they are tame.</p>
<p>Pitt really isn’t a “party school”, but you can find it if you want too. Big pro-sports town so that’s a major part of the community and social scene. </p>
<p>I really have no idea if Pitt itself is considered liberal, however some surrounding communities like Shadyside and Squirrel Hill definitly slant to the liberal side. Pittsburgh traditionally votes Democrat (but more conservative Democrat, not really liberal…more your Grandfathers Democrat), but PA itself has saw a shift towards the Right this past midterm election.</p>
<p>It’s not really a political scene. The G20 was here last year and brought in the normal cast of protestors and due to some natural gas drilling in Western PA you are seeing environmental groups setup shop and stirring the pot a bit.</p>
<p>Their Poli Sci department is good, but it’s PA. If you want to work within politics or government I’d stick in DC, the opportunities here are limited for that sort of thing.
I mean, if you want to transfer and are already in DC, you have most of the top Poli Sci schools in your backyard.</p>