<p>is it possible to double major between the colleges at cmu? for example, major in business at tepper and also major in psychology at the college of humanities and social sciences?</p>
<p>Yes. You could even double in something hard like comp sci and something easy in HSS like.. creative writing...</p>
<p>actually i heard the creative writing program is really tough at cmu</p>
<p><em>rolls eyes</em></p>
<p>let me guess. you're ece or scs?</p>
<p>lol..
nah, he's at teppers</p>
<p>I have a 3.8 despite having taken advanced programming and Principles of Econ with Klepper (one of the hardest freshmen classes). The avg for the final is around 50% and he curves it heavily.</p>
<p>Anyways, creative writing is not that hard. I say this because I KNOW a HSS person who is now doing a creative writing and CS double major. He had some good programming background and was rejected from SCS initially but now he's doing just fine.</p>
<p>I'd say he spends 90% of his time on CS and the rest on writing and he has A's in all his writing courses so I don't think it's that hard.</p>
<p>Different strokes for different folks though, as some people ace english courses while others ace math/tech courses.</p>
<p>atca: is it easy to well in tepper and/or information systems? i heard lot of kids graduate with honors.</p>
<p>Yes but this is true in almost all colleges. The avg Tepper GPA is about 3.3 and the avg IS gpa is around there too.
Basically all schools, even CS/CIT, have avg GPA's in the 3.2's. </p>
<p>Most people think Tepper is inflated but it's only about .1 or .2 higher in avg GPA. Some people just think it's easier to do social things instead of study for sciences but I can bet you some CS nerds I know would TOTALLY fail out of upper-class business courses as they have NO social skills nor teamwork nor the presentation capabilities. </p>
<p>Definitely pick your major based on YOUR interests, not on which school you perceive is easier. </p>
<p>I'm interested in Econ so I aced even the hardest Econ concepts because I WANTED to learn and I cared about what I learned. I dropped (before the deadline so no record :)) a drama elective because even though EVERYONE told me it was easy, I thought it was sooo boring and I was doing pretty bad in it.</p>
<p>For some reason I thought CMU would not be grade inflated since its a tech school</p>
<p>By grade inflated I mean to the level that people think Tepper is :)</p>
<p>Sorry if that made no sense but basically my point is, GPA across the board only differs marginally so you should not let that influence your decision at all, nor should it be a concern. </p>
<p>PS: Professors do curve up and try to maintain a B average though. That explains the around 3.0+ avg's and engineering/tech majors do get a little boost to their gpa I think.</p>