Anyone transfer FROM Harvard?

Sikorsky
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:26:29 +0000

DeskPotato, somewhere on your transcript, or in the course catalogue, or somewhere, Harvard says that for purposes of equating Harvard courses to courses at other institutions, a half-course should be considered worth 4 credit hours.

This is, of course, preposterous. Latin AAB, accelerated Latin, which met daily and more than an hour a day, or Chem 20, with hours of labs, counted the same as Heroes for Zeros.

I’m quite sure the equivalence is based on nothing more than the fact that Harvard College considers four half-courses to be a full load, and colleges that count credit hours consider 15 credits per semester to be a full load.