<p>From today's Crimson online:</p>
<p>"Professors today approved legislation that will extend the concentration choice deadline for students beginning with the Class of 2010 from the end of their freshman year to the first semester of their sophomore year. </p>
<p>The move, which was recommended by a committee of the Colleges ongoing Curricular Review, was approved by a voice vote at a full meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this afternoon."</p>
<p>Spiffy.</p>
<p>When you declare your concentration doesn't really affect anything, as far as I can tell, but, y'know, it's the thought that counts.</p>
<p>Is that the general view on campus? I think the concept was that delaying the choice to sophomore year would allow time for more exploration in freshman year. I dont know whether theres any validity to the concept, but at least it will mean one fewer item for the Harvard-bashers to complain about. ;)</p>
<p>The general view on campus is "who cares, we already declared our concentrations." Considering that people change their concentrations all the time, what does it matter? Eradicating the core will have a much bigger impact on freedom to "explore" than changing the concentration declaration date, which is fairly meaningless, will. Because your core requirements depend on your concentration, and because many concentration classes don't count for the core and vice-versa, you can end up switching from, say, Math to English and finding that the English classes you took as a Math concentrator for the core are worthless for your English degree, while your upper-level Physics and Ec courses won't count for the science and social analysis cores required of an English concentrator. This will happen regardless of when you declare your concentration.</p>