<p>Harvard undergrad college is generally known as the liberal arts/humanities breed of college.</p>
<p>How does Harvard do in biomedical engineering, especially compared to those schools with strong bio and medicine like Johns Hopkins? </p>
<p>Just a question.</p>
<p>Strong. Very Strong. But it still doesn't compare to Johns Hopkins and the like.</p>
<p>is it advisable for a person to choose Johns Hopkins over Harvard?</p>
<p>Only IF you are truly dedicated to BiomedEngineering</p>
<p>What science/applied mathematics/engineering is harvard particularly strong in?</p>
<p>Physics, math, economics</p>
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<p>Harvard is particularly strong in all of the natural sciences and in theoretical mathematics. Harvard is also pretty good at computer science, applied math, and engineering. It's clearly not in the class of MIT in those disciplines, but it's still pretty decent.</p>
<p>If MIT is so much stronger than Harvard, do Harvard students cross-register at MIT for engineering classes?</p>
<p>Engineering majors often do, but typically only for a class or two.</p>
<p>So can you just cross-register without applying to MIT? You just go to Harvard and say, "I want to take classes at MIT" and they let you.</p>
<p>Yes. And MIT types can also cross register to gain a taste of the liberal arts.</p>
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<p>There are rules about how many such classes you can cross-reg, and what paperwork you have to complete. There can also be issues with scheduling, as Harvard and MIT don't operate on the same academic calendar (i.e. the breaks and vacations are slightly different, Harvard has a 'reading' period that MIT doesn't, final exams tend to be run at different weeks, etc.) </p>
<p>But in a nutshell, the answer is, yes, students from one school are largely free to take classes at the other . This is why I find discussions that Harvard is a bad place to go for engineering or that MIT is a bad place to go for humanities to be highly dubious. The truth is, a Harvard engineering education can actually be BETTER than the engineering program of many other elite engineering schools if the student simply cross-reg's a lot of engineering courses at MIT. And similarly, an MIT humanities education can actually be BETTER than that of many other elite humanities schools.</p>
<p>I just have a question: why do people go to Harvard for engineering? Obviously, there must be engineers at harvard, but why didn't they choose the engineering giants like MIT? Does harvard have a clear advantage?</p>
<p>Is there any competition for cross-registration with MIT, or do they let 100% of the students who want to take the classes?</p>
<p>The main reason is that they also want to get a liberal arts education. Some of them weren't sure that they wanted to study engineering and wanted to have other options in case they changed their minds. There might be other reasons as well--location (if you didn't get into MIT, there aren't that many great engineering schools around), financial aid, unique programs or extracurriculars that Harvard has, etc., but the option to take more humanities classes is the primary reason given by most people I know who are in engineering.</p>
<p>Ultimatemath, I applied to Harvard for engineering. I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't really realize what schools I was applying to or what I was thinking at the beginning of my senior year! The thought of getting into the best university possible was more important than the major. I was really ignorant, but after searching this board, I realize how I could have made better choices.</p>
<p>There's no fixed number of people who can cross-register at MIT. If you want to and it fits your schedule, they'll let you. The exception is that freshmen are not allowed to cross-register for courses at MIT unless it's for ROTC.</p>
<p>Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) in a very small but an extremely strong program especially if you want to be a business oriented engineer/applied scientist.</p>
<p>Notable Harvard DEAS Alumnus are::
Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft)
Steven Balmer (CEO of Microsoft)
An Wang ( invented Magnetic Tapes such as floppy disk, video tapes and founder of wang lab)
Fischer Black ( Partner of Goldman Sachs and father of Financial Eingeering)
and many other business leaders</p>
<p>MIT Engineering/Applied Science is for people who want to work in the lab and build stuff.. MIT engineering is about 20 times bigger than DEAS and there are some very successful bisiness leaders in small to medium size firms. but most of MIT people usually end up working for Harvard alumni ( or other Ivy Engineering alumni)</p>
<p>Not Dead Byerly:</p>
<p>"MIT types" - is this a slight slight?</p>