<p>How Intended Field of Concentration can effect the admission?</p>
<p>While your intended major might effect admission, students have no idea what Harvard is looking for in a given year. Maybe too few students are majoring in X, and Admissions needs to actively pursue students who might be interested in majoring in X. But they may instead be looking for Y or Z or whatever. Who knows? It’s best to just write down what you are interested in and not try to game the system. For reference only, see: [Harvard</a> College Admissions § Applying: Statistics](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/statistics.html]Harvard”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/statistics.html)</p>
<p>Intended Field of Concentration
Humanities: 17.5%<br>
Social Sciences: 27.5%<br>
Bio Sciences: 23.3%<br>
Physical Sciences: 8.8%<br>
Engineering:13.2%<br>
Computer Science: 2.6%<br>
Math: 6.5%<br>
Undecided:0.7%</p>
<p>Thank you. I have a very good background in both computer science and mathematics (Academic + Work experience + extracurricular activities)
I chose Computer Science in my application form based on interesting in computing science and algorithms. I attached a letter of intention with the supplemental documents, regarding to that.</p>
<p>However, I am concern about the percentage of 2.6% admission for computer science major.</p>
<p>My math scores are very high and I am very interested in Mathematics also.
I wonder if I should change my major…</p>
<p>As gibby pointed out, the issue for you is not what % were admitted that planned to major in CS, but how many CS slots that Harvard wants to fill versus how many applicants are interested in it. You will never have the data to do that analysis, so you are best served in just honestly presenting what you are interested int.</p>
<p>Ok. Thanks</p>
<p>Most students switch their major at least once during their four years of school. That’s why a college does not hold you to your choice of intended major. At Harvard, students select a concentration during the first semester of their sophomore year and can change their concentration up until the first of semester of their junior year. Bottom line: Don’t sweat your selection of Computer Science as your intended major. Switching it to Math will not increase your chances of admission.</p>
<p>Thank you gibby.</p>