<p>i received my fat envelope today (and yess, it was FAT FAT FAT! I LOVED IT) and it said that i have been chosen to be in the humanities scholars program for H&SS. after reading and doing some research i'm still a little confused as to what it is and why i was chosen. did anyone else get this?</p>
<p>I got chosen for the same thing too...a joint Science and Humanities Scholars Program?? I have NO IDEA why I was selected and CMU was very vague the program. Please, someone, explain!</p>
<p>This is what I know about it, yes it is vague:
It is offered to MCS and HSS students.
You get to room in New House your first year.
You get special lectures and seminars from professors.
You get a different advisor than you would normally have (not necessarily better or worse)
You need to take a few different classes than the regular kids; if you are in MCS you will need to take a few extra humanities classes and vice versa, and I think you have an easier time registering for these classes.
It will say Humanities and Science Scholar on your diploma.</p>
<p>My son was chosen as well. The web site has a lot of information about the program. You get to live in New House dorm on a special floor if you want.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cmu.edu/shs/curr.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.cmu.edu/shs/curr.html</a></p>
<p>Hmm, I received the invitation as well. I'm not entirely sure if this is the same thing as what rice girl posted, but this is a link from the Humanities school itself, which refers to it as the Humanities Scholars program, rather than the Science and Humanities Scholars program referred to in rice girl's link.</p>
<p>Home</a> | Humanities Scholars Program, Carnegie Mellon University</p>
<p>I was also accepted. I applied into a different school as my first choice, and mellon college of science as my back up though. So, if I do this program, does it mean that I can not major in business?</p>
<p>^ That is correct. There is no such thing as a scholar program for the Tepper School of Business. Accepting the scholar means you will be a joint student of HSS and MCS (if memory serves), but definitely there is no way to accept the program and be a Tepper student.</p>
<p>Well i could do computational finance or economics which both would be my top 2 picks actually. Do you think that the recruiters generally hire the engineers and science comp majors though, and leave the honors program kids in the dust?</p>
<p>I got into this humanities scholars thing too... I was thinking it might be fun to do something involving neuroscience (that sounds pretentious), but you would be able to use psychology and philosophy and language as well as chemistry and biology...</p>
<p>Then again I was also accepted for engineering... I don't know what to do!!!</p>
<p>Honestly, in my opinion, do what you want to do and what you are interested in. A Carnegie Mellon degree is very marketable (unless it is like History or something) and even then you have access to the vast resources available that bestows CMU with its amazing job opp. reputation. </p>
<p>Comp finance has to be applied to and you can do it from the Tepper School so my best advice to Chicagoboy is to do what you are interested in and if you are interested only in marketability, I'd go with the Tepper school because it is of top-tier quality, has a stellar reputation with recruiters, and is only getting better. Plus you can always transfer from Tepper to econ easily while the other way around is quite hard. </p>
<p>SHS kids do not get left "in the dust" though and CMU is known for tech-oriented studies but business and economics are VERY marketable and I would even say they are just as much so and by the time you graduate, may even be more so than some of the tech majors.</p>
<p>did everyone who applied to h&ss or mcs get invited to the program? i got it too.. just wondering how special it makes us. lol.</p>
<p>Looks like most of the invited are already on this thread! We're all searching for more info, aren't we? My D has been invited. I would say it's an attempt by a science and engineering school to beef up its presence and its credibility in the humanities. Hard to tell how serious, and how successful, an attempt it is. Program is about 5 years old, graduated their first class last spring 07.</p>
<p>Check out the program website, especially the list of current and past seminars to get some idea of what they aim to do. We plan to visit campus in next few weeks.</p>
<p>There IS a lot to be said for being part of a small-group, intellectually-serious experience as a first year. I say this after other D's positive experience in a similar program elsewhere. There is also a lot to be said for a student with obvious interest in the humanities to be in a unversity that offers many inter-disciplinary opportunities. Good luck, all!</p>