<p>I keep reading that you can cross register courses at Harvard from MIT and vice versa, does that mean you can take a full course, say Course 15, at MIT, if you're enrolled at Harvard? Or just a few classes, like 15.xxx?</p>
<p>Well, you can't do an entire major at the other school. And you can't take more than two classes per semester at the other school.</p>
<p>For the most part, the classes MIT people take at Harvard are either for HASS credit or for personal edification. I'm not sure about the reverse -- I guess mostly Harvard science and economics people cross-register -- but I suspect that in both cases, people have difficulty getting credit within their majors for cross-registered classes. They're generally used to fill credit requirements outside the major.</p>
<p>Course 15 is a good example- Harvard doesn''t have an undergraduate business major and the college doesn't have classes in things like accounting, so some Harvard undergrads take business classes at MIT; I don't think there is much cross-registration into economics (14). One thing to note is that the schedules aren't really in sync, MIT starts earlier in the fall.</p>
<p>How much of a pain is it to cross register given that the academic calendars aren't the same?</p>
<p>Oops just notice Aedar's post. Not only does MIT start earlier, but Harvard still has exams in January doesn't it?</p>
<p>Right. You have to be willing to put up with the annoyance of the schedules not lining up.</p>
<p>Also, I did mean, above, that Harvard economics people cross-register into course 15 classes. :)</p>
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<p>Actually, it's probably not Harvard science people, but rather Harvard engineering people that are highly likely to cross.</p>
<p>One of the girls on my hall at MIT had to go to her Harvard class when we were in the middle of finals, and she has to take the Harvard final during the middle of our IAP, when everyone else here is having fun. Just keep that in mind.</p>
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<p>The only two cross-registered Harvard students I know of are taking MIT HASS classes - one in a music class and one in a linguistics class.</p>
<p>Globber, what class is your hallmate taking?</p>
<p>Is there a lot of cross registration in Biomolecular/Proteomics related
course work.......?</p>
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.......somewhat beneficial for course 20 or
10B especially given the collaborative work at the higher
level of Broad Institute etc....?
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<p>Also relative hardness wise I hear from friends that if Caltech is a 10 :)
MIT would be a 9.98 and Harvard ~9.9...</p>
<p>Maybe we should switch to a logarithmic scale :D</p>
<p>Arwen, I'm not totally sure what you mean -- are you talking about MIT students cross-registering at Harvard for proteomics courses? I haven't heard of that happening, since generally MIT people will not cross-register for technical courses.</p>
<p>I guess I might point out that an MIT or Harvard undergrad probably wouldn't have too much difficulty getting a research position with any MIT or Harvard professor. An MIT undergrad could get a research job with a professor at the Broad, even if the professor's primary academic affiliation was with Harvard rather than MIT. Actually, one of the labs I'll be rotating in this spring (Harvard-affiliated, at Mass General Hospital) has an MIT undergrad working there.</p>
<p>EDIT: Ben, perhaps the Mohs scale of university hardness? Caltech can be diamond, MIT is corundum (rubies and sapphires!), and Harvard is, like, apatite.</p>
<p>or, where appropriate, the inverse of the scale can rate the university's easiness.. (mhos)</p>
<p>I think hardness depends a lot on what courses you take. For me the hardness level of Harvard was about a 6, but I wasn't a science major.</p>