<p>Hey, I was just wondering, what exactly is the difference between Harvard College and Harvard University. They are both located in Cambrige so is the college a subdivision of the university or what?</p>
<p>Same thing...College just refers to the undergraduate education.</p>
<p>Yes, Harvard College is one of twelve component schools that make up Harvard University. The others are the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, the graduate schools of Law, Business, Medicine, Divinity, Business, Dental, Public Health, Education, and Government, and the Extension School.</p>
<p>Thanks, that's what I thought but my brother thinks he's smart and he's telling me that they are completely different. Go figure....</p>
<p>Hanna, did you know the different grad schools from memory?</p>
<p>She probably did. Hanna used to be a tour guide at harvard.</p>
<p>That means she could recite the list backwards, if she had to.</p>
<p>(She forgot the Radcliffe Institute, however. Naughty, naughty!)</p>
<p>See <a href="http://www.harvard.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.harvard.edu/</a> - list in bottom left hand corner</p>
<p>That's right. I could probably still rattle off the dates the Yard dorms were built if I thought about it...not that any of the visiting students ever cared!</p>
<p>Do you get a lot of adult visitors who are not guidance counselors or parents?</p>
<p>We got TONS of them -- so many that they are handled by a separate staff in a separate building that gives tours aimed at the general public, rather than at applicant families. Commercial tour operators also take their groups around campus, even though they aren't supposed to (especially groups of of foreign visitors). If you speak the language, these tours can be a real hoot for a student who tags along, because they're often completely off base.</p>
<p>But I thought it was much more interesting to give the tours to prospective students.</p>
<p>Harvard Yard is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Massachusetts, along with Quincy Market, Fenway Park and Plymouth Rock!</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Commercial tour operators also take their groups around campus, even though they aren't supposed to (especially groups of of foreign visitors).<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>My freshman daughter got up early (~7:00 AM) to go running one Saturday morning, and when she stepped out into the Yard to warm up, a Chinese tour group hustled over and stood and stared at her with mouths agape from only 2 or 3 feet away. She was the only student in sight and they apparently just had to get a good look at a REAL Harvard student.</p>
<p>That is both frightening and hilariously funny.</p>