Cross-Registration - MIT

Who is this for?

Harvard College and GSAS Students

When to cross-register at MIT 

As a general rule, you must cross-register for courses by the earliest possible deadline.

When MIT's cross-registration deadline is earlier than Harvard's deadline, you must cross-register by MIT's deadline.
When Harvard's cross-registration deadline is earlier than MIT's deadline, you must cross-register by Harvard's deadline.

How to Enroll in an MIT Course

Cross-register for courses directly in my.harvard.
1. First-Year Students must send a statement of interest to your Resident Dean to be able to cross-register at MIT.
2. Fellows cannot cross-register at MIT.
The MIT instructor will approve your request to enroll.
Once your enrollment request has been approved by the MIT instructor, you will see a "Permission Granted" icon in my.harvard and you are registered for the course at MIT. Please keep in mind that there's no shopping at MIT. If you decide to not take the course, notify the MIT Registrar's Office. They will drop the course in MIT's course registration system.
You must officially enroll in the course once the MIT instructor has given you permission. You are not officially enrolled in the course until you complete this process.

Dropping a Course

Drop the course directly in my.harvard.
Contact the MIT Registrar's Office. They will drop the course in MIT's course registration system.

Changing how You are Graded

MIT courses taken pass/fail cannot be changed to a letter-graded course. FAS will convert the letter grade to pass/fail once the Registrar's Office receives grades from MIT.

Harvard College students: Submit a change of grading basis request directly in my.harvard
GSAS students: Submit a petition to change a grading status (PDF) for language courses only

Auditing a Course

Contact your instructor to request permission.
Once you receive permission, drop the course directly in my.harvard.
Send your instructor's note of approval to records@mit.edu to be added as an auditor.

Audited courses will not appear on your Harvard transcript.

Credits

GSAS students: find more information on the GSAS policies website.
Harvard College students: no limitation on the number of credits to count toward the 128 credit requirement.

To petition to receive concentration credit for a course:

Complete this petition form (PDF) signed off by your department
Submit via email to enrollment@fas.harvard.edu by the 5th Monday of the term in which you are taking the course.

If you have not yet declared your concentration you may petition for concentration credit retroactively by the fifth Monday of your fourth term in residence.

Visit the course search in my.harvard to view the cross-registration credit conversion tool. Look for the button titled "Credit Conversion" below the search bar.

Graduating Students

If you wish you receive your diploma on time, you may want to reconsider taking an MIT course in your final semester. The MIT semester ends on May 18 so you might receive your diploma late if you cross-register.

Fees

MIT will charge late fees to FAS students where applicable. Each late fee is $50. Late fees that may be applied are as follows:

Late Cross-Registration Fee: applied when a student misses the October 8, 2021 deadline to complete cross-registration at MIT.
Late Add/Drop/Change Fee: applied when a student misses the deadline to add/enroll in additional MIT subjects, drop a MIT subject, or change the subject grading status (from credit to audit/listener).

Deadlines

Fall-Cross-Registration Opens	August 16, 2021
Last day Harvard College students may add/drop a full-term and H1 cross-registered course	October 4, 2021
Last day Graduate students may Add a cross-registered course	October 18, 2021
Last day Graduate students may Drop a cross-registered course	November 1, 2021