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Stephen J. Pepper, administrative assistant in charge of requirements at the Office of the Registrar, said last week that during the summer after freshman year about 25 per cent of the students decide to change their concentration. Over the course of their undergraduate careers, Pepper estimated, possibly 50 per cent of Harvard students switch fields...
...concentration at three times during the year. Carol S. Thorne, secretary of the Committee on Special Concentrations, estimated that about eight to ten students apply for a special concentration at each of the three opportunities. Thorne said students applying for a special concentration generally have about a 75-per-cent acceptance rate, and students who have their applications for a special concentration turned down may reapply...
...lasting effects of the choice of a field of concentration appear to be intellectual and scholarly, rather than career-related. In a pamphlet entitled "Careers and Concentrations," Martha P. Leape and Robert J. Ginn Jr., of the OCS-OCL, say, "Our observation is that over 50 per cent of Harvard-Radcliffe College alumni are pursuing careers which have no direct connection with their undergraduate field of study. Concentrations at Harvard are not designed to prepare you for a career." Leape said she thinks the main purpose of a concentration is "exploring a central area of knowledge." She added that...
...Crimson poll of Law School students last week revealed that over 50 per cent are dissatisfied with the quality of instruction at the Law School...
...poll, to which one-third of the school's student body responded, showed the highest rate of dissatisfaction among third-year students. Seventy-seven per cent said the quality of the instructors has not conformed to their expectations...