<p>I'd like to work on an MA in Statistics at GSAS during junior and senior year, while finishing up my regular BA. Something like the Harvard AB/AM Statistics in 4 years. Crazy? Impossible? Do you need to finish your undergrad degree before even applying for GSAS? Thanks.</p>
<p>You can get a masters in 4 years if you’re able to finish all the coursework. I know at least 2 people who got SEAS MS’s in their major in 4 years. You just have to be able to fit in all the masters coursework (which often isn’t all that much), and it probably helps a lot to have advanced credit and/or overload. You don’t really have to apply to the grad school; you just kinda work it out with your advisers.</p>
<p>C02, I’ve been thinking of doing a M.S. in 4 years at SEAS, but this is what it says on the bulletin:</p>
<p>Taking Graduate Courses as an Undergraduate
With the faculty adviser’s approval, a student may take graduate courses while still an undergraduate in the School. Such work may be credited toward one of the graduate degrees offered by the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, subject to the following conditions: (1) the course must be accepted as part of an approved graduate program of study; (2) the course must not have been used to fulfill a requirement for the B.S. degree and must be so certified by the Dean; and <a href=“3”>B</a> the amount of graduate credit earned by an undergraduate cannot exceed 15 points.** Undergraduates may not take CVN courses.</p>
<p>([2008</a> - 2009 SEAS Bulletin:Undergraduate Programs](<a href=“http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/bulletin/undergraduate_studies/undergrad_programs/index.html]2008”>http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/bulletin/undergraduate_studies/undergrad_programs/index.html))</p>
<p>So if undergrads can’t earn more than 15 points of graduate credit, how can we complete an M.S. (which, for OR and EMS, requires 30 points)?</p>
<p>If you want to do a MS in 4 years, I don’t think you’re technically "
Taking Graduate Courses as an Undergraduate." I don’t know the exact mechanics, but I presume you’re probably a graduate student somehow.</p>
<p>i also know a couple of people in SEAS who’ve done it</p>
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<p>I think this is more of a financial thing…as in, you can only take 15 credits as a full time undergrad student and then if you want to take more classes you’d have to pay for them per credit. This is a guess but I think that’s what they’re getting at.</p>