What comments does he receive and from whom?
Comments he has gotten (and still gets at times) from some of the boys (well I guess they're men now) he went to high school with, asking him why he wants to take such a "pansy" subject, and asking if he's gay. Stupid really, and he just laughs it off, he wants to be a human rights lawyer and a major focusing on equality is a good undergrad foundation for when he moves on to law school.
No-one at Harvard comments, they're all far too intellectually evolved to be so churlish.