Can Haverford students take classes at Penn?

<p>More specifically, can Haverford students take classes at Wharton? One of my students is seriously considerering Haverford but would like to take a couple of Finance classes at Wharton. Is this possible?</p>

<p>I would check that with the Haverford registrar.</p>

<p>The regular cross-registration agreement with Penn covers classes in the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Liberal and Professional Studies. A few years ago there was a discussion about whether economics majors should be allowed to take a few select classes at Wharton. According to Haverpedia (an informal guide for students by students) this suggestion was actually implemented, but I can’t find a corresponding statement in the official cross-registration guidelines.</p>

<p>Thanks b@r!um. I will contact the office of the registrar.</p>

<p>Alexandre,</p>

<p>Economics majors are allowed to take classes at Wharton. Like the other Penn guidelines, you can take no more than two classes at Penn (Liberal Arts + Wharton) each semester. It is also helpful to know that you can not take a class at Wharton if a similar course is offered at Haverford. </p>

<p>Hope this helps.</p>

<p>This definitely helps BlackSquirrell. Thanks for the information.</p>

<p>Hi Alexandre</p>

<p>Here’s an official link I found on the HC website stating that students can take classes at Wharton. It doesn’t provide the details and logistics though so your student will probably have to e-mail an economics professor or registrar to the details. Most likely, taking a class at Wharton won’t happen until junior or senior year as I think the class has to be not offered in the Bi-Co/Tri-Co and the student needs the basics/specialty knowledge in the field of economics to fully benefit from any possible sub-specialty offerings at Wharton.</p>

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<p>“This remarkable relationship allows each of us to retain the strengths of the small college experience, while offering the expanded resources and opportunities usually found at a larger university. And if this is not enough, Haverford students have the option of taking courses at the University of Pennsylvania (including Wharton) and have the great city of Philadelphia at their fingertips.”</p>

<p>Thanks HC alum. Even taking 4-5 courses at Wharton during their Junior and Senior years is a tremendous opportunity. I don’t think an Econ major requires more than that. Complementing classes such as Game Theory and Financial Economics with real life courses such as Financial Accounting, Management and Investment Finance would be optimal.</p>

<p>Hey Alexander,
I believe students can take classes at the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at any point as long as the class isn’t offered at Haverford. To take classes at Wharton, students need to be an econ major. Majors are declared at the end of sophomore year.</p>

<p>At our information session this week, the admissions official told the group that taking classes at Penn was doable as long as the class wasn’t offered at Haverford, Swarthmore or Bryn Mawr. One student asked about Penn and he said most HC students didn’t look into this until their last couple of years. The admiss. officer stressed the wonderful opportunity students have to take over 2000 courses at any of these schools. Because of the proximity to their campus, I can see the ease of doing so at BMC, and even Swat, but is the inclusion of Penn too much of a hassle with public transportation to consider it really feasible?</p>

<p>I know plenty of BMC women who did the commute. It’s not that bad since you can take the r5 down to the area. The trickiest part is the scheduling and making sure not to miss your train.</p>

<p>I graduated from Bryn Mawr in 2011 and I took a total of 9 classes at Penn (all advanced courses in my major and minor). Penn classes were actually more convenient than Swarthmore classes: there’s a train into the city every 20 minutes, while the Swarthmore van only ran once every 90 minutes. I believe that the Swarthmore van schedule was changed this past year, so it might be more convenient now.</p>

<p>There’s very little interaction between Swarthmore and the Bi-Co. Bryn Mawr’s registrar published the number of cross-registrations between the various schools a few years ago. If I remember correctly, there were about 3,000 cross-registrations between Bryn Mawr and Haverford but only 80 between Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore. While I do not know for sure how often we go to Penn, I’m fairly confident that we sign up for more than 80 Penn courses each year.</p>