 Hello my people, welcome to the SCORE channel and welcome to my hometown, the city of Pittsburgh. I arrived in Pittsburgh just in time for the first day of classes at the University of Pittsburgh. I wanted to hear what actual students thought about the university, so I talked to 10 students to hear what they had to say. Let's meet our people. I'm Christina Kasper. I'm a freshman. My name is Joseph Dullabatch. My name is Maeve Goldstein. Hi, my name is Dallas. My name is Victoria. Hi, my name is Claire. I'm Chris Matthews. I'm Casey. Christ. Biology, pre-med. I study political science and economics with a minor in philosophy. Bio, maybe something like pre-med. Linguistics, Italian studio art and global studies. I'm actually a chem major right now. I'm a first year engineering student. I study Italian, linguistics, education, kind of lots of different things. I'm getting my master's in PhD in French studies. I'm studying business here. I'm studying English writing and potentially going to double major in education as well. And just like how great they are in the sciences, I've always heard that. And I love the city when I visit it, so I really thought it would be a good fit for me. Really enjoy the campus and everything. Pretty much the campus, this area, all the different aspects, the city and the classrooms and just how beautiful the buildings are. Even though it's like a big school, everyone kind of seems like a family. I mean, I love the city. I think it's a beautiful place to grow up and a beautiful place to study. I mean, we literally have a building called the Cathedral of Learning. The Italian department is wonderful. Everyone is so passionate about what they are teaching and that really makes the whole experience a lot better. Basically, I actually got a decent chunk of scholarships from Pittsburgh and it gave me the opportunity to go out of state without breaking the bank. Here, you already know everybody. It feels like the school is really big, but honestly, the campus isn't as overwhelming as other schools. You can, everything's very accessible and you are able to be in the city without being in the city like other schools. The NYU is smack dab in the middle of the city. We get to be outside of the city, but also get free busing through all of Pittsburgh, so if you want to have that city life, we can go do that. I had some other options, but the institution and scholarship and honors program definitely drew me here. I think the idea of being in the city was really exciting to me. Hershey's kind of a small town, so I was looking for something different and it just seems like a lively, diverse community and yeah, I'm really looking forward to being a part of it. I really, I mean, obviously the Cathedral is beautiful. I really like the people here. They just are always willing to go have a picnic or do whatever, explore the city. And I've had really great professors, especially in the Italian department. It's been, they're all so sweet and down to earth, so I really like that. I really like the city, the campus and all the cool programs that Pitt has to offer. I'm excited to learn this year. Pitt's just a nice school. I like being in the middle of the city. I think it's within walking distance, so I can just, you know, walk 10 minutes from my dorm and have a whole bunch of restaurants available to me. And also, I think my favorite thing about Pitt is the people here. Despite being online, my first year I've made a lot of really close good friends. I'm involved in quite a few different clubs. I am an officer in one of the clubs, actually. And I just feel like welcome here, you know. It's going well so far. A couple of my classes are virtual, but they should be in person all of them soon and I'm really excited. I'm a sophomore, so this is my, I actually just had my first in person class a couple minutes ago. So how's it feel? Well, like I'm an actual college student. Yeah, you had a way to get that experience up. Yep, yep. I'm waiting for my first class. It starts in about half an hour, so I don't have any experience yet, but I'm looking forward to it. I only have one class today. It was an 8 a.m. lab and it got canceled, so my classes don't start until Monday. So successful first day. Yes, I think. Didn't screw anything up. Yep, yep, pretty much. Really come visit as soon as possible, like coming here and realizing how beautiful the campus was and how nice and genuine the people are really made it, like, such a good fit for me, I thought. And I'm really liking my experience so far. It's my first day of classes. I originally didn't plan on going to Pitt. I came and visited the campus and kind of fell in love with everything here. At that point, I kind of knew that's where I wanted to go, so I would encourage you to kind of get out if you're applying and come see and actually, like, realize how beautiful the campus we have and how great of an atmosphere it is here. Write down everything that you did in high school. Don't leave anything out, get involved. Every little thing matters. Speak your truth. I would say apply early. I applied pretty early and then found out and I was like cruising for the rest of it. Don't stress, I guess. I don't know. Apply anywhere. Honestly, don't not apply somewhere because of money because, honestly, at the end of the day, there's probably a chance that you will get a better financial aid package than you think you will and it just doesn't hurt. I'd say start the application early. I think one of the main reasons that I liked the Pitt application was because it was rolling, so I found out that they got in pretty early. So definitely work on it early and be yourself in your essays and that's probably the best advice I would give. Come in with a very open mind because I went into my undergraduate experience thinking that I was going to be an actor and that did not happen. But it's okay to change your mind and follow other passions, so as long as you come in with an open mind, you can really do whatever you want. I would just say visit the campus, see what's about, see if you'd like to fit and go Pitt. I'm trying to remember what the Pitt application was like. I applied to many colleges. Express yourself. That's really generic advice, let me explain. At Pitt, there's a really wide variety of people. This is a very diverse, large place and you will find your niche. So don't be afraid to show off the aspects of yourself that you think are weird. That, oh, no one else is going to like watching cartoons like I like to. You're wrong. No one else is going to like D&D as much as I do. You're wrong. That sort of thing, just don't be afraid to put that out there, especially in your application because Pitt likes people who are go-getters usually. Or just, I don't know, just be yourself in every sense of the word and have fun with it. The essays are pretty fun. Okay, better advice. One of the things I really love about Pitt is that there's so many options. So my advice for applicants would be to seriously dig through the course catalog, look around. There's really something for everyone. We have over like 25 different languages taught here, which was one of the main reasons I wanted to come here. And all of the teachers are so passionate about what they do. So you really can't go wrong. Subscribe to the channel because next week we have a university episode for Pitt that you don't want to miss. Oh! Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And ciao!