HELP! Northwestern MMSS vs. UC Berkeley

ricegal
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:14:50 +0000

MMSS is Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences. It’s a program designed to use math in areas outside of science and engineering. My son dislikes science and engineering, but loves math, particularly statistics. It is the perfect program for students like him. The program is also like an honors program in that they only admit 20 students per year and these students all attend special advanced math classes together. It’s a lot stronger program than just an econ degree because of its heavy emphasis on math. That’s why so many are accepted into top grad schools. Also, you don’t have to put your emphasis on econ if you don’t want. You can emphasize some other social science like sociology, although I suspect most of the students are interested in econ.