<p>Harvard is likely to let students have minors:</p>
<p>I'm so excited about this! Hopefully it takes effect soon enough to be applicable to me, I'd like to minor in Classics and spend a semester abroad in Athens or Rome next year.</p>
<p>Harvard doesn't let students have minors yet???? Doesn't anyone find this odd and restrictive?</p>
<p>Yes ... we did ... which is why the faculty voted to change it ... (?)</p>
<p>Well, I mean it's not like you can't take a lot of classes in a secondary field, so it's not really restricting you from doing anything. You just don't get to put it on your resume that you have a minor, which is inconvenient (it's much easier to put "minor in computer science" than "coursework in introductory programming, algorithms, data structures, compiler design, operating systems, " etc. etc.) but not really restrictive.</p>
<p>Additionally, some kids in the past treated joint concentrations as a major/minor type system (or at least, a lot of prefrosh planned to do this). The caveat is that you're then required to write a thesis linking the two fields.</p>