My son is currently a freshman Bioengineering major, choosing Pitt over Notre Dame. He said to me one day “If I could’ve designed the perfect college experience, this would be it”. He is very intelligent (received a merit scholarship), very social and athletic (manager of the Pitt’s basketball team). I will tell you that the Freshman Engineering program at Pitt is intense and challenging - they make the students want to be engineers. His advisor assisted him in obtaining a research job for the summer, which is very difficult for many freshman in other programs.