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Students who meet the current sophomore standing requirements, "feel they must be well prepared to handle middle-level course work," Davis said. "The nature of work here has changed so that three threes may no longer be a reliable standard by which to predict academic success."
Davis said that disallowing Core exemptions if a student takes a fourth year will insure that people do not take advanced standing just to reduce their non-concentration requirements.
Some advanced standing students make "a premature decision to enter a department, not because they are already committed to the field of study, but because the line around Harvard has always been, 'take advanced standing. You'll get a break in Gen Ed,'" Davis said.
The changes, if approved by the Faculty, will not be implemented for at least two years to give high school students notice about the stricter requirements, Davis said.
In the past five years, about 20 per cent of each entering class has been eligible for advanced standing, and about 10 per cent have accepted it, Davis said.