<p>It’d be great if someone at Wes right now or who is otherwise knowledgable about CSS could answer the following questions:</p>
<li>Roughly how many students apply each year? (I know they try to form a group of 30, but the response “Some years it’s competitive, so years not so much” is too vague).</li>
<li>I know what the app components are. Could someone please explain to me what CSS is looking for? (GPA? Faculty opinion? Extra-curriculars?)</li>
<li>What’s the difference between humanities and social sciences? I thought they were the same.</li>
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<p>Humanities are anything that you can b.s. about: English, Philosophy, Classics, virtually any foreign language (artificial languages are another matter entirely.)</p>
<p>Social Sciences are generally speaking, more concerned with collecting data. Examples are: Sociology, Government, Economics. Wesleyan also counts History towards satisfaction of its social science “expectations”, although some academics believe it is more of a humanities.</p>
<p>Likewise straddling the academic fence are Psychology and Anthropology. I’m actually not sure where Wesleyan places them. Some of Wesleyan’s best known scholars – N.O. Brown (Classics), Richard Slotkin (English), Laura Grabel (Biology) and Alvin Lucier (Music) – have single-handedly blurred the boundaries between academic disciplines.</p>
<p>Well, Ealgian, tough luck if “some years it’s competitive, some years not so much” is “too vague” for you. That’s the actual answer. Usually, everyone who wants to get in does. Some years, that’s not the case.</p>