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Although Harvard’s faculty members and students rarely shy from selectivity or prestige, the Social Studies of 2007 finds itself in a difficult position that questions whether the concentration’s elite status is valuable—or even merited—anymore...
...being “committed” to the status quo still means that many students who want to concentrate in Social Studies are unable to—180 applied last year for 144 spots. Next fall, because of the College’s delayed concentration choice, the number of applicants is expected to increase even further, as the concentration’s famous tutorial will be open to all sophomores for the first time...
...Social Studies stops promoting its questionable status as “the Harvard of concentrations,” the past may repeat itself. When FAS voted to expand limited enrollment concentrations in 1977, applicants to Social Studies dropped considerably in the following years...
...then Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences and chairman of the Task Force on Concentrations that proposed the expansion of Social Studies, told The Crimson, “If the application decrease is due to the loss of Social Studies’ ‘elite’ status, it’s all for the better...
...Nearly three years after the founding of HSCI, a report on the status of science and engineering at the University found that, in general, faculty members find it “difficult to conduct interdisciplinary research,” especially across school and departmental boundaries. The report concluded that the University must foster interdisciplinary research to maintain...