<p>@WooTheDay,</p>
<p>First - congratulations on your acceptance!</p>
<p>Second - to answer your question - I don’t think so. There are a few programs that, with Advanced Standing, one can complete an AB/AM in four years (or so I’ve read - but no one seems to take advantage of these programs), but to graduate with both in less than four years, you’d have to take additional courses every semester. You can’t reduce the load by taking some courses and counting them for both your undergraduate and graduate degrees. As well, it would be difficult to get all the courses you need, as not every course is available every semester, and many courses are laid out with one course in the fall followed up by a second course in sequence in the spring. You’d wind up out of synch with the school’s schedule.</p>
<p>Also, you might drop dead from overwork. My older son’s roommate is joint-concentrating in two wildly different fields, and one of them has very strict curricular requirements. Because of that, he needs to take five or six courses each semester (four is standard). On days/nights that he sleeps, he typically gets less than three hours total. He’s becoming a physical wreck.</p>
<p>I’m not altogether sure they’d even approve your attempt. </p>
<p>As well, for many students, Harvard’s a lot of fun. </p>