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...college students, few distinctions of prestige rival admission into Phi Beta Kappa. Since 1778, Harvard has annually considered the top students in the College for admission into PBK. Last week, however, officers of the Harvard-Radcliffe PBK Society announced that the process that determines which students will become members of the illustrious society will change. Instead of requiring students under consideration to provide letters of recommendations and upload their own transcripts, the chapter will consult the directors of undergraduate studies of the considered students’ concentrations after first obtaining academic records from the Registrar. This unfortunate change eliminates individual...
...Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society has changed its selection process for the final round of senior elections into the organization, PBK officers announced earlier this week...
...Many schools’ Phi Beta Kappa is determined solely by grade point average, and we have long felt that that is a narrow viewpoint,” McCarty said. “We want to look at academic excellence more broadly. The level of difficulty and the breath of academic experience that they show is more than a simple numerical calculation. We still preserve all of that in this process...
...Class of 2011’s “Junior 24”—the first 24 members of the Class to be elected to Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa—were announced yesterday...
...twenty-four students named Phi Beta Kappa yesterday are Nicholas O. Bodnar, Lila G. Brown, Sophie Cai, Edith Y. Chan, Marco Chan, Ama R. Francis, Anne L. Goetz, Nell S. Hawley, Meng Xiao He, Taylor J. Helgren, Christopher W. Higgins, Darius S. Imregun, Sundeep S. Iyer, Eli J. Jacobs, Alexander S. Karadjian, Jerry L. Kung, Iya Megre, Arjun R. Ramamurti, Marsha Sukach, Pramod Thammaiah, Arnav Tripathy, Rui Wang, Allen Yang, and Helen H. Yang...