University of Pittsburgh 2007 (College Prowler) [Paperback]

Jamie Cruttenden (Author)

Book Description

Series: College Prowler: University of Pittsburgh Off the Record | Publication Date: July 1, 2006

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So yinz guys been thinkin' of coming dahn to the University of Pixburgh? College Prowler hopes you've been checking up on your Pittsburghese n'at before you get here how embarrassed would you be if your roommate asked you to redd up the dorm and take your turn warshing the suite commode, and you had no idea where to begin?

The University of Pittsburgh College Prowler guide offers prospectives the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the University before they even arrive, with 29 chapters addressing common questions and concerns that the University itself may have tried to avoid answering, and giving advice, facts, quotes, and yes, even the best of Pittsburgh colloquialisms, all generated by current students attending Pitt.

Don't be fooled, however; Pitt's campus isn't full of yinzer yahoos at least not completely. To see if you'd even care to spend the next four years seeing the world through blue and gold colored glasses, grab a College Prowler and read student opinions on:

Academics

"The teachers are good they're the main reason Pitt is ranked highly. All the teachers graduated from places like Cornell, NYU, Harvard, and other crazy schools."

Guys and Girls

"I know that people from Carnegie Mellon come here in the spring to just look at the Pitt girls. They're wonderful eye-candy."

Athletics

"Varsity football and basketball are very big on campus. Tailgating at football games is a highlight of the fall."

Nightlife

"Most of the clubs are in the Strip District they're all cool. I've only been to two, only because I'm cheap, and they're kind of expensive. Bars are everywhere in Pittsburgh. There are plenty around campus, and there are many more on the South Side I mean a whole lot."

Find out if the University of Pittsburgh truly has something for you, straight from the students' mouths.

Visiting campus isn't enough.

Read our University of Pittsburgh insider guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.

Discover if the University of Pittsburgh is Right For You.

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This is the kind of information kids really want to know before they pick a college. --Michelle Slatalla, The NY Times

About the Author

College guides for each of the top colleges and universities in the US

While writing our series of college guides, we felt it was critical that our content was unbiased and unaffiliated with any college or university. We think it s important that our readers get honest information and a realistic impression of the student opinions on any college campus that s why if any aspect of a particular college is terrible, we (unlike a campus brochure) intend to publish it. While we do keep an eye out for the occasional extremist the cheerleader or the cynic we take pride in letting the college students tell it like it is. We strive to create a college guide that s as representative as possible of each particular campus. Our guides cover both the good and the bad, and whether the survey responses point to recurring trends or a variation in opinion, these sentiments are directly and proportionally expressed through our guides.

College Prowler guides are in the hands of students throughout the entire process of their creation. Because you can t make student-written guides without the students, we have students at each college campus who help write, randomly survey their peers, edit, layout, and perform accuracy checks on every college guide that we publish. From the very beginning, student writers gather the most up-to-date stats, facts, and inside information on their colleges. They fill each section with student quotes and summarize the findings in editorial reviews. In addition, each college or university receives a collection of letter grades (A through F) that reflect student opinion and help to represent contentment, prominence, or satisfaction for each of our 20 specific categories. Just as in grade school, the higher the mark the more content, more prominent, or more satisfied the students are with the particular category.

Once a college guide is written, additional college students serve as editors and check for accuracy even more extensively. Our bounce-back team a group of randomly selected students who have no involvement with the project are asked to read over the material in order to help ensure that the guide accurately expresses every aspect of the university and its students. This same process is applied to the nearly 300 colleges and universities College Prowler currently covers. Each guide is the result of endless student contributions, hundreds of pages of research and writing, and countless hours of hard work. All of this has led to the creation of a student information network that stretches across the nation to every college that we cover. It s no easy accomplishment, but it s the reason that our college guides are such a great resource.

When reading our guides and looking at our college rankings, keep in mind that every college is different and that the students who make up each college are not uniform as a result, it is important to assess colleges on a case-by-case basis. Because it s impossible to summarize an entire college with a single number or description, each guide provides a dialogue, not a decision, that s made up of 20 different topics and hundreds of student quotes. In the end, we hope that this guide will serve as a valuable tool in your college selection process. Enjoy!

Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: College Prowler (July 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1427401896
• ISBN-13: 978-1427401892
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,358,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)