<p>Hi, so I was recently accepted to Carnegie Mellon's College of Humanities and Social Sciences as well as the Mellon College of Science, the only two colleges I applied to. However I was also invited to participate in one of two special programs at CMU: the Science and Humanities Scholars Program (SHS), and the Quantitative Social Science Scholars Program (QSSS).</p>
<p>The SHS program I had seen on their website, and expressed my interest to join in my CMU supplement essay. However I had not previously heard of QSSS nor did I express any interest to join it. I did some searching around through google and whatnot, and apparently it's a new program with about 15 new students per year. Since it is a new program I haven't been able to find much info about it. All I know is that it is by invitation only like SHS, and that they too, like SHS, live in a certain cluster with other QSSS students.</p>
<p>So quite simply, I was intending on going through with the SHS program if I was invited, and otherwise deciding between H&SS and MCS. Luckily, I was accepted to SHS, but now I'm confused as to what to do since I've been invited to QSSS as well. Both seem pretty similar in that they both live together with other students of the program and that they are by invite only. Also, they are very much interdisciplinary programs, with SHS combining the humanities/social sciences with sciences, and QSSS combining mainly social sciences with mathematical, probably statistics-based elements (data analysis). QSSS however is open to not just a social science major from H&SS, but also majors in "decision science, economics, philosophy, policy and management, statistics, or other programs".</p>
<p>So basically I'm asking, what's the real difference between the two? Basically SHS combines H&SS with MCS, and QSSS combines H&SS with mathematical elements (which, I presume would be classified under "mathematical sciences" under MCS). I mean, both seem very appealing to me, I'm just really unsure as to which to pick.</p>