<p>The GAP and Chancellors both accepted 10 students my freshman year. Since then, UHC must have received more funding, because the number has increased to between 12 and 14 for Chancellors. I believe GAP still maintains just 10.</p>
<p>As long as he is willing and can fill out the application to the best of his ability, it does not hurt to apply. Yes it takes extra time, but the benefit if chosen is worth it. In terms of what they look for, all I can say is the GAP looks for outstanding candidates and diversity. I believe they always pick 5 boys and 5 girls, and try to make the GAP awardees as diverse in ethnicity as possible.</p>
<p>Chancellors is more grad bag. I honestly have no idea what to tell you. It’s a mix of your application, stats, recommendation, area you come from, and so many other things to get to the interview round. From there it’s about drive, personality, and how you can become involved in UHC/Pitt.</p>
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<p>Like MTNest said, I went to TJ. Honestly, my freshman year, especially fall semester, was kind of a joke (and I took 3 UHC classes). I breezed through most assignments and if it weren’t for the lack of the right professor in Honors Chem 1, would have gotten almost a 4.0 my first semester. Second semester was only slightly harder because of Honors Chem 2 having a lab portion. But overall, it really was easy compared to my workload in high school. That’s just me though, I think I overloaded on high school, which helped make my transition to college easier.</p>
<p>I’ve seen many pictures of the campus online, but I have a strange question. Are all the buildings as Gothic interiorly as the Cathedral? Are the facilities modern on the inside, or do they all look like those international classrooms? For example the library…</p>
<p>Definitely not. A lot of the buildings are new or being renovated (like the Engineering building) and are pretty sleek and modern on the inside. Some dorms are fancy and new, some are older, but none of them are really Gothic (I think the older ones are from the 80s or so? New ones are late 2000s). </p>
<p>Some buildings are old and have older style classrooms (Thackeray, Thaw/Allan, Clapp), and some have a new face lift (Chevron) which makes them quite nice! It really just depends on the kind of funding the department has for how the classes will look. Your best way to get an idea is do a campus visit and go inside the buildings.</p>
<p>That is what I tell DS2. Tons of work assigned by his teachers including late additions on blackboard. I keep telling him college will be so much easier – look at the amount of work his brother has to do!! LOL!! College will be a breeze after what he has been through at TJ :)</p>
<p>It’s SO true. I would do all of my week’s homework by Thursday and then spend the weekends hanging out, watching movies, and doing whatever (sometimes kind of boring) while everyone else worked. If I had known better, I would have gone exploring through Pittsburgh, go the parks, downtown, other neighborhoods with all that free time!</p>
<p>Knowing you graduated from TJ is helpful. It provides good context to your posts. Knowing what you know about Pitt now, if you could do it again as a freshman, would you still take 3 honors or would you take more honors/credits to keep you busy? What would be a course load that would keep you “challenged”?</p>
<p>I would take more honors as a freshman only for this reason: My Intro to Shakespeare professor was crazy and not good and the honors one was much better. Knowing what I do now, I would absolutely still take honors physics, chem, and engineering. Although the Physics teacher is different than the one I had, so that might change people’s opinions.</p>
<p>I don’t think, given the classes I had to take, that I could have been particularly challenged. The heavy Math/Sci HS courseload prepared me well for programming, chem, and math when I started college. By sophomore year, when I got in-depth into my major, I was challenged. But not really freshman year.</p>
<p>Not at all. Your classes are filled with non-honors housing students which is how you can meet people from other dorms. Also, signing up for clubs and activities will definitely get you out and about. If you don’t put in any effort, though, yeah, you’ll be isolated (but that is true for ANY dorm)</p>
<p>I got in everywhere I applied: Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, CMU, Pitt, William & Mary, Emory, Case Western. Emory and Georgia Tech gave me no money, so they were too expensive. I didn’t want to stay in state (W&M/VTech). Case Western gave me very little money in loans, and same for CMU (too expensive) so I went with Pitt, which gave me a half tuition scholarship, plus a small stipend for books (which eventually upgraded to full tuition).</p>
<p>I’m applying to both the Guaranteed Admit into the medical school and the Chancellor Scholarship. Do you know if the essays might be read by the same people?</p>
<p>They shouldn’t be since Chancellor’s is through UHC and GAP is through the Med School (I’m not sure, but it’s not UHC). With that said, I can’t imagine the two essay requirements are the same…?</p>
<p>I don’t think so and I’m surprised you didn’t waive your rights. Our GCs always told us to waive the rights because otherwise colleges start getting suspicious about your lack of trust in the teacher writing the letter (essentially, they think that you want to proof-read the letter to make it better).</p>
<p>With that said, if you are curious, ask your teacher if you would be allowed to see the letter AFTER you have heard back from every school you have applied to (so essentially, April 1).</p>
<p>My son was just accepted into arts and sciences. We are all very excited. He is interested in studying information technology. I know he can’t apply into the ischool until jr year… what kinds of grades does he need to transfer? Is it difficult to transfer into the ischool? Any thoughts and/or opinions would be greatly appreciated… thanks!</p>