<p>Thanks awesome. It is the guaranteed medical program.</p>
<p>How is the environment at Pitt? Is the atmosphere made up of students that genuinely care about school/grades? Are people umm…for lack of a better word…smart? I don’t want to go to a school where people don’t know who the Secretary of State is or people that want to party a lot and don’t care that much about their academics.</p>
<p>who is the secretary of state and which state?</p>
<p>What do you mean which state? There’s only one secretary of state: Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>Oh her. Its not like she makes any difference to a student at any level unless they are interested in political science.</p>
<p>That may be true but I would like to be around people that at least know a little bit about politics and the leaders of their country…</p>
<p>then go to Harvard.
people there know a lot about politics :)))</p>
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<p>Most of the students care about school and grades (to some degree). Of course Pitt has its slackers: the people who take easy classes, goof off, and then party multiple days a week, but so does every school.</p>
<p>The great thing about Pitt is that we really are aware for the most part. Being a state-related school makes the students incredibly aware of the state-level politics. Many students re-register to vote in Oakland by changing their voter address to their dorm address. I’d say a fair few could tell you Clinton is the SoS…</p>
<p>Overall, I’d say you’re going to find a mix of students. In every major and department you’ll find students who study study study and work hard and students who slack off. Hopefully, you’ll find a nice in between where you can work hard, but also know how to relax.</p>
<p>I’ve never run into an issue of “dumb” students or people who don’t care about their grades with the people I know. I’d say my circle includes UHC kids, engineers, and a few others.</p>
<p>how was intro to arabic?</p>
<p>…and to build off of the above question, how is the whole arabic sequence? (as in, to you reach a pretty good level of proficieny?) thanks :)</p>
<p>p.s. is there an arabic studies major? my sister is a graduate student at Pitt for poli sci and she says that she knows people in this program, but I can’t find anything about it online? thanks…</p>
<p>My S is in Intro to Arabic which he needed to take for his linguistics major (gaelic, his first choice, was unavailable due to a scheduling conflict). Considering he has not shown a prior affinity for languages, much less one so different than germanic/romantic languages, he has really enjoyed the class and signed up for the next class in the sequence. So one positive experience.</p>
<p>Awesome opposum, just an update on a prior thread where I asked you questions about co-ops and the NSA.My son just had his phone interview and was offered conditional employment with them pending the the results of his testing. I just wanted to share what I consider to be positive news, and once again thank you for your viewpoint.</p>
<p>Ah! This is what happens when you get a killer take-home exam that eats up your time and forget to log into CC.</p>
<p>Sorry I couldn’t answer the Arabic question earlier, I haven’t actually taken Arabic myself, I think one of my friends took it/is taking it. As far as I know, any of the Arabic classes he took, he very much enjoyed. </p>
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<p>Ah! That is so exciting! Congratulations! The one person I know who had a NSA-related co-op absolutely LOVED their experience!</p>
<p>Does Pitt hold admission interviews?</p>
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<p>I believe you can talk to an admissions rep or someone related to OAFA…but I’m not 100% certain that it will fuel your application at all. That is, I think it’s more if you have questions you want to ask someone, not necessarily if you want something to boost your application.</p>
<p>I heard that although it may sometimes be difficult to snag a scholarship as an incoming freshman, there are tons of scholarship/money opportunities for upperclassmen. Any truth to this? I would really like to graduate with as little debt as possible, obviously.</p>
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<p>Except for very rare cases (my own being one of them) there is rarely ever a case of someone gaining more money beyond what they are offered coming into their freshman year. Rare cases being that someone with a scholarship left, or lost it for various reasons. I would say the money that you get coming into freshman year is most likely the only money you will have to depend on all four years at Pitt.</p>
<p>Way too tired to do this justice, but i want to publicly say a massive THANK YOU to AwesomeOpossum for meeting us on Friday and talking to me, my hub and my D outside the formality of the “admissions people.” </p>
<p>Besides being a lovely and articulate young woman, you saved the day for my D, as I think I mentioned to you. Saturday sessions were mixed IMO, but the students we met through that were unreal, took us to their dorms, etc., and she SO wants to go back!</p>
<p>Friends and acquaintances on this thread, we are incredibly lucky to have AO here. If she is able to squeeze you into her very busy schedule when you visit and offers to get together, TAKE HER UP ON IT!</p>
<p>I can’t thank you enough. Truly.</p>
<p>Is Pitt good with making accommodations for students that have disabilities? (learning disabilities, physical disabilities, etc.)
Also, do students leave campus a lot on the weekends (to go to South Side or McKnight or wherever)? If so, do they take the bus?</p>
<p>Pitt doesn’t require a secondary school report, right? Sorry for all the questions >.<</p>