Questions about CSS program

Are the college science scholars exempt from the general requirements, writing courses like an Echols scholar? I’ve been looking at the courses these days and just need to know this.
Another thing: It’s weird that I only got a letter saying I’m an css scholar (international here, so mails are slow), but I never got any email saying I’m in css. And I got a email inviting me to DOTL- scholars program, including information for both echols and css, although I think this is general for every CLAS scholar, the whole thing is just confusing.