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<p>I do wish for it to be my primary academic and extracurricular focus. Additionally, I want to double major in the Ethics, Politics and Economics (EPE) program that Yale offers… and that’s something that I literally could not do if I went to Harvard. </p>
<p>I spoke with the advising office for the Government concentration at Harvard and the woman told me that student advising was something they planned to develop and focus on in the coming years. She also said that it’s nearly impossibly to have success as a joint-concentrator and harder to receive honors as one. Although the Government concentration is large and comprehensive, it seemed much more like an advanced study in AP Government rather than an analysis of the sociological and philosophical aspects of political/economic theory and the ramifications as it relates to society. </p>
<p>I’m much more interested in the less palpable facets of political science, but it seems like nearly all of the kids concentrating in Government that I met had intentions of being politicians (I walked into a class with over 50 kids and talked to quite a few of them). </p>
<p>As I said before, I have no intention of working in politics, rather I just want to explore a passion of mine from a perspective that fascinates me. For this, I find the EPE program at Yale exponentially more appealing than the Government concentration at Harvard.</p>
<p>I will say though that the Gov concentration is probably the best you can get (…it is Harvard after all), but not the greatest for the education I seek.</p>