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<p>Just to clarify though, your undergraduate major does not necessarily correspond to the career you end up in the future…</p>
<p>Love this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1019481-student-invading-parents-forum.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1019481-student-invading-parents-forum.html</a></p>
<p>As for too many people going into investment banking, politics, medicine, etc., I took a course on Russian literature last semester and most of the people in my section were history and literature majors. I know someone doing a joint concentration in music and archeology, and I have a friend who’s sure he wants to major in classics and another, Japanese. I think this goes back to what DwightEisenhower said about there’s no such thing as a typical Harvard student-----there are probably more people going into one of those popular pre-professional fields than optimal but if you’re looking for people of more diverse interests, you would have no problem finding them as well. The problem is that Harvard is such a big school that there is no way anyone can possibly know everyone else on campus, so my perception of the school is inevitably going to be colored by the very specific group of people whom I do happen to meet, as it would for everyone else.</p>