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Because of the nature of Harvard life, Social Studies’ negative message does not push freshmen toward finding their inner-academic interests, but rather it instantiates Social Studies’ prestigious image as the “Harvard of concentrations” and fascinates students for the wrong reasons...
Bernstein said, “Who can blame freshmen for choosing a prestigious concentration in the spring of their first year? It’s a very high-pressured situation, and an easy decision is to follow the prestige...
...freshmen that I spoke to, none said that Social Studies’ message of difficulty would stop them from trying the concentration. Jessica G. Ranucci ’10, another potential concentrator, said, “People don’t think they’ll get in, but that hasn’t deterred them from what I have heard...
...Studies are aimed at addressing this dilemma. Tuck said, “The long term aim is reworking the concentration so that we are clear as to why Social Studies is a separate concentration within the social sciences.” Then, hopefully, the communication between Social Studies and freshmen will simply focus on the necessary interests of a potential concentrator—such as a desire to learn social theory and apply that to a to-be-discovered focus area—and not how the concentration is especially difficult or special...
...spent little time settling back in. While freshmen moved into the Yard in September, Bok decided to change how all future first-years would find their way to Harvard by ending early action admissions...