As far as cross-registration goes, in addition to Wellesley and Harvard, MIT does allow cross registration at the Massachusetts College of Art (MassART) and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (SMFA). These are fairly easy to arrange, and you automatically get elective credit for courses taken at these institutions on your MIT transcript. However, these courses only count for elective credit. You may not use them to satisfy any of MIT’s HASS (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) requirements. They are also graded pass-fail. You will need to get your academic advisor’s permission to take classes at one of these institutions. All MassART classes award 12 elective credits on an MIT transcript. At SMFA, a 2-credit SMFA class becomes 6 MIT elective credits, and a 4-credit SFMA class turns into 12 MIT elective credits. For more information see http://web.mit.edu/registrar/reg/xreg/index.html