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Social Studies has recommended 89 out of the 90 graduating seniors in the concentration for some form of honors—73 percent of those for either of the two highest honors, summa or magna, according to Bernstein...
...understanding is that this is the College saving us from ourselves and imposing a cap on the number of honors being given out College-wide,” Bernstein says. “We really don’t expect to be doing anything differently...
...Bernstein sees nothing wrong with sticking to the old pattern of recommendation. She says that she thinks social studies concentrators—since they must write theses—are stronger candidates on the whole, a justification for recommending all but one of her students for honors...
...once honors-only concentration will face unprecedented rejection this year. The Dean’s Office has said, according to Bernstein, that about one-third of social studies students will likely be denied any Latin honor...
...Anya Bernstein, director of undergraduate studies for Social Studies, wrote in an e-mail that the policy shift should have been expected...