<p>their home department is almost alway the non-WWS department. </p>
<p>as per your concern of looking too lopsided, sometimes that is good. WWS likes to see applications of people with very directed academic interests. they want you to have a clear plan of study for your time in the school and a clear research focus. if your plan of study is focussed on a public policy in the range of lets say economics, then they would look favorably upon a focussed study of economics. plus to enter the econ dept. you need to take 100,101, math, and stats. since a TON of freshman (and just about every WWS prospective) ends up taking the 100 level econs, math is not an ECON course and you need to take stats for WWS anyways it would not look as if you are concentrating too much in ECO. Or else every person getting the finance certificate would have been rejected from WWS. However, if you take 9 ECO courses your freshmen and sophomore years then your application might look one sided.</p>