<p>Does Harvard require they're undergraduates to have an art credit or any sort of fine art credit to graduate? And if so how many?</p>
<p>See: [Homepage</a> Program in General Education](<a href=“http://www.generaleducation.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do]Homepage”>http://www.generaleducation.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do)</p>
<p>No. Harvard undergraduates DO NOT have to complete an art credit/fine art credit to graduate. Harvard undergraduates do, however, have to complete 8 general education requirements touching on the areas of:</p>
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<li>Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding</li>
<li>Culture and Belief</li>
<li>Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning</li>
<li>Ethical Reasoning</li>
<li>Science of Living Systems</li>
<li>Science of the Physical Universe</li>
<li>Societies of the World</li>
<li>United States in the World</li>
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<p>Does that mean courses such as AP Art History and AP Music Theory are pretty useless when it comes to the Harvard education and admission?</p>
<p>Harvard doesn’t give credit for AP tests in terms of getting out of requirements, no. Will either of those help you get in if they’re more rigorous/fit your passion/intended major better than alternative courses? Yes.</p>
<p>I don’t intend to be an art or music major as I am horrible at both but with that said they’re are regarded as hard classes and they are AP classes. If I don’t want to go into art or music are they that helpful to admissions to any college?</p>
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<p>And also if you do well in them. If you’re so horrible in them that you get lower grades than you’d be getting in your alternative equally-rigorous courses, they’ll hurt you.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>