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<p>There is a little Harvard-Yale thing that goes on between Math 55 and Math 207-209. Somewhere on CC there’s a thread in which a poster named phuriku, a Chicago student who took the course there three years ago, analyzed what both courses covered and argued that Math 55a didn’t cover as much as the first quarter of the Chicago sequence.</p>
<p>shushugah: I suspect that MIT students do NOT take Math 55 at Harvard. Chances are you are going to have to drop this particular fantasy.</p>
<p>The general rule is that cross-registration is permitted only for subjects not offered at MIT, and that it must be approved by the relevant MIT department. Somehow, I have trouble believing the MIT math department – which is not second-rate in any respect – would agree that it does not teach the subjects covered in Math 55. Plus, I think the time demands of Math 55, and the effective need to spend a lot of time on the Harvard campus with the other students, would make it really tough to complete a normal freshman curriculum at MIT. I doubt any Math 55 students at Harvard take anything like a normal MIT freshman courseload outside of math.</p>