<p>will i be able to apply to be transferred to the main campus later on, if i have accepted to one of the regional campus and what are my chances?</p>
<p>Mrsmile10: no way we can tell you chances of transfer as it would depend on your performance in class. I went to Ohio State and know Pitt well. OSU is just as good - in fact many would prefer it to Pitt. Therefore, why bother with the need to transfer if you can attend a good school right away. Are you an international student? The branch campuses of Pitt are in small towns and may feel isolated for an international student - especially if you don’t have a car.</p>
<p>Jaynebe: Here is an article from the Pitt News regarding tours:
[Pitt</a> Pathfinders continue campus tours despite bomb threats | The Pitt News](<a href=“http://pittnews.com/newsstory/pitt-pathfinders-continue-campus-tours-despite-bomb-threats/]Pitt”>Pitt Pathfinders continue campus tours despite bomb threats - The Pitt News)</p>
<p>jaynebe - My ds is a frosh at Pitt so I am overinformed about everything with the bomb threats and while there have been threats as recently as yesterday, they are certainly not as many or as inconvenient to students or visitors, buildings are being cleared much quicker because of the security measures put in place. I would keep with the visit.</p>
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<p>Go! They’re still holding tours, the threat numbers are really low, and they’re clearing the buildings in record time. Plus, the weather should be nice!</p>
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<p>The branch campuses are much smaller, farther away (depending on which one you are in), and the opportunities are less. With that said, if you have a good freshman year, you can definitely apply for transfer to main, which a LOT of students do successfully. The only difference I would note between Pitt/OSU is that OSU is ridiculously large. I’m not sure if that is a good or bad thing for an international student, it just depends on your preference. Both Pitt branch and Pitt main campuses are relatively small, you can walk everywhere, and I think that’s kind of nice.</p>
<p>Yeah, you’re right. I’m an international student.</p>
<p>But I’ve done approx 40 credit hours back in my country. I’m a international Transfer student. not sure I’ll still stand a chance later on to transfer to the main campus. </p>
<p>I’ve no experience with campus size. My country campus is quite small and I don’t know I’ll like a big one or a small one. </p>
<p>In terms of daily expenditure (cost of living, food, daily groceries, etc not including tuition fees) which place is more expensive (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) or (Columbus, Ohio)?</p>
<p>According to a CNN Money Cost of Living calculator, housing is about the same and groceries are about 10% less in Columbus. If Pitt main v. OSU, then Pitt main for neuro but I would choose OSU over a Pitt branch campus. Because of its size, you’re also more likely to find other students from your country or region at OSU.</p>
<p>thanks all, going to keep our plans and head there this afternoon!</p>
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<p>tOSU is not as good as Pitt-main for Neuroscience. There are really no universities in the country that are better for undergrad neuroscience than Pitt, including Ivy League schools where I taught neuroscience courses. Others are equivalent, but not better. I’ll put up my PhD in Neuroscience on that statement. That said, mrsmile10 should go to tOSU over a Pitt regional as they do not offer neuroscience nor have the necessary research opportunities that he should seek out.</p>
<p>Thanks guys for the feedback. Lol wgmcp101, what u’ve just said made me all the more wanting to go Pitt :P</p>
<p>Having said that, I’m still waiting for Pitt admission letter. It’s weird, it has been around a week since they send me an email congratulating me on my acceptance, but I’ve been waiting since then for them to send me the admission letter…</p>
<p>Oh and also they didn’t say in the email that they don’t offer Neuroscience in the regional campus. Worried that I might end up not doing neuroscience if I go there 
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<p>Cause I’ve gotta let Ohio State know my decision by May 1st</p>
<p>i recently visited pitt this past weekend and was sold. i plan on accepting my offer of admission for the school of nursing ASAP. i was just inquiring about scheduling: how long do classes run at pitt? do nursing classes run any longer than others? is it possible to have any days without classes as a nursing student in your schedule?</p>
<p>Awesome, I have a question about Pitt’s study aboard program and full tuition scholorship. Do you know for a OOS student, can the honor’s full tuition scholarship be used for paying part of the cost of a semester or full year study aboard (assuming it is for a Pitt Recognized study aboard program)? Are there a lot of Pitt premed students able to do study abroad? Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>^I’m not sure if the details change from year to year, but the information sheet that comes with scholarship notification specifies how it works for study abroad. For the honor OOS full tuition given out last year, if you want to study abroad, your OOS scholarship is converted for the semester to the cost of in-state tuition and you have to pay any cost above that. But that does count as one of your 8 semesters the scholarship covers. </p>
<p>I don’t know about the summer semester, but I would say very few pre-med students study abroad during the fall and spring simply because the classes rarely meet the requirements for science majors. I’m sure it is different for pre-med students majoring in a foregin language or something similar though. Still though, most pre-med students regardless of major take a med school requirement every semester until interview season (bio and gen chem for freshman, o chem for sophomore, physics for junior) and it can be hard to take these out of the country and still have a medical school accept them. This is not to say it’s impossible for pre-med students to study abroad, I’m sure with some schedule rearranging it can be done, but you can see why it might not be common. If a pre-med student is dead set on both med school and undergraduate study abroad, a good person to talk to would be Andrea Abt. She is the honors college pre-med advisor (though I’m pretty sure she will meet with anyone) and she really knows her stuff!</p>
<p>What do you think ones chances are for getting Tower C as their first choice?</p>
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<p>Class can run any time from 8am to ending at 8:30pm or later. Most people will only have classes during a traditional time of day (8am to about 5-6pm) and definitely not stacked with back-to-back classes all day. Nursing may have longer classes due to clinical rotations, which are basically internships during school. My guess is due to the rigorous schedule of a Nursing student, you will probably always have at least one class every day of the week. But don’t take it for certain, because I thought that would be the case as an engineer, but I’ve had semesters without class on a particular day of the week.</p>
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<p>Like MedSch said, the scholarship can go towards study abroad. I wasn’t aware that it got converted down to in-state (in my case when I had been asking about it a few years ago, it wouldn’t have been) but that is something you can email the UHC and ask. If you decide to go in the summer and apply the scholarship, it will be counted as one of your 8 semesters. I also agree that many pre-med students do not study abroad in the fall/spring but I have had friends do shorter term study abroad in the summer for 6 to 10 weeks or so.</p>
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<p>If you are a girl, you already have a 1 in 3 chance of being put into Holland, regardless of what you may request. Other than that, your chances of towers are about 1 in 5 (because C is singles, and A and B are doubles). That’s just a rough guess though.</p>
<p>and how long are classes? i hear at maryland, classes are 50 minutes? i was wondering the duration of classes</p>
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<p>It depends. Most are 50 minutes, some can be up to 4 hours (labs), my night classes or grad classes are 2.5 hours, and sometimes I have 1 hr 15 minute classes.</p>