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Because the new policy increases the competition for students vying for top spots, students are opting out of the traditional thesis-writing route towards receiving honors.
“The one interesting trend that we noticed was that we think that more of our students decided to [go for] non-thesis honors, calculating that whatever the department did, the number of magnas was going to be cut at the College level,” says Elisa...
Government concentrator T. Sean McKean ’05, who recently learned he is receiving some form of Latin honors, says the prospect of strong competition within his department nearly discouraged him from writing a thesis.
Jolls went on to advise Rao’s thesis, an empirical analysis of the effects of a 1974 federal pension law.
Jolls, his thesis adviser, says Rao is uniquely equipped to handle it.