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Enrollment
You should enroll for undergraduate credit, even in courses available for both undergraduate and graduate credit. If you choose to enroll in courses that are only available for graduate credit, you earn graduate credit and are graded by graduate standards.
You may not register for more than four courses per term unless you have received approval (download a course overload petition).
Degree credit is not awarded for any course that duplicates the subject matter of a previous course for which credit has already been received. Additionally, if you have already taken a more advanced course in a subject, credit will not be given for an elementary course taken in the same subject. It is also not given for foreign language courses in your native language.
Transfer credit that has already been awarded is removed if at any point you complete a duplicate course at Harvard.
You may not repeat a course to improve your grade point average. A repeated course appears on your transcript but does not count toward the degree or grade point average unless a failing grade is earned. If you need to repeat a required course because you earned a grade below the minimum, you must submit entirely new course work. See Student Responsibilites for more information.
If you do not enroll for five consecutive years, you are withdrawn from the program. If you choose to continue your degree studies, you must reapply to the undergraduate program and will be held to any new admission and degree requirements.