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...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...
...years, students who were in the top of their class in each of the three areas—humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences—would be invited to apply for each round of elections. But starting this year, the students under consideration for the final round during senior spring will not be subjected to an application process. In fact, they will not be notified of their candidacy...
Instead of having each senior spring candidate upload a transcript and provide two recommendations as candidates did in the first two rounds, this new election process will seek consultation from the director of undergraduate studies for each relevant department based on academic records obtained from the registrar...
According to Logan S. McCarty, the organization’s vice president, this new procedure arose from student and faculty concerns about the nature of the final senior election, where half the number of invited applicants find out a week before Commencement that they have not been elected into the society...
Blair estimates that roughly 90 students will be selected of the approximately 180 candidates this spring, which, along with the 24 selected in spring of junior year and 48 selected in fall of senior year, will make up 10 percent of the graduating class...