<p>@Orbit196: There is no finance major @Harvard. </p>
<p>@eliana: I don’t have much to add to what JHS and DwightEisenhower wrote, but if it’s any comfort to you, I have plenty of friends who graduated with less obviously practical concentrations such as government, history of science, and neurobio doing everything from advertising, venture capital and working at consulting firms to startups, business school and law school. In fact, a decent percentage are doing something which has nothing to do with their concentrations. </p>
<p>If you want to do Social Studies, go ahead! It’s a rigorous concentration, and if you’re worried about having practical skills, take some additional higher-level statistics courses, which would be useful in the social sciences anyway. And if you’re interested in the humanities, do a secondary. Or not and just take a bunch of electives in subjects you’re interested in.</p>
<p>As for ‘wrong majors’–Harvard might be one of the few places where this is less of an issue. Not a non-issue for sure, but definitely less of an issue.</p>