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Academic Year 2020-2021

 

Fall Term

July 27, Monday

August 14, Friday

  • Final degree applications for November 2020 degree candidates due.

August 17, Monday

  • Last day for all undergraduates to check-in online.

COURSE REGISTRATION DEADLINE

August 26, Wednesday

  • Course Registration for all students (upperclassmen, first-year students, visiting undergraduates, and new transfer students) are due by 11:59 pm.
  • Fall Session 1 course registration deadline.
  • Students must submit enrollments for their minimum course load – typically 16 credits – on my.harvard by 11:59 pm. Students who do not submit enrollments by this time will be charged a fee.
  • After this date students must obtain permission from all instructors to enroll in courses.

September 2, Wednesday

  • Academic year begins, courses will follow a Monday schedule.

September 7, Monday

  • University holiday: Labor Day.

September 9, Wednesday

  • Last day upon which undergraduates may check-in/register late for the Fall term in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
  • Last day upon which undergraduates may cancel their check-in/registration for the Fall term without payment of tuition.
  • Plans of Study/Declaration of Concentration due for transfer students who entered in Fall 2019 with second-semester Sophomore or Junior class standing.

September 14, Monday

  • Makeup Examinations for 2019-2020 begin.
  • Last day upon which undergraduates may drop or add any Fall Session 1 course without a fee.

September 21, Monday

  • Last day upon which undergraduates may drop or add any course without a fee.
  • Last day upon which undergraduates may withdraw from any Fall Session 1 course, a notation of WD will be permanently recorded on the transcript.

October 1, Thursday

  • Applications for degree credit for study out of residence for the Spring term are due at the Office of International Education.

FIFTH MONDAY

October 5, Monday

  • No full-semester or year-long course may be dropped from or added to a student’s record after this date.
  • No course may be changed from letter-graded to Pass/Fail or from Pass/Fail to letter-graded status for the Fall term after this date.

October 6, Tuesday

  • Students leaving the College by this date are charged one quarter of tuition and the Student Services Fee. After this date, students will be charged one half of those costs. See the chart under Financial Information for details of room and board charges.

October 12, Monday

  • University holiday: Columbus Day (Federal), Indigenous Peoples' Day (City of Cambridge).

October 16, Friday

  • Fall Session 1 ends.

October 16, Friday

  • Deadline for applying for spring housing if you were not living in student housing during the Fall term. The Returning Student Housing Application can be found here.

October 19, Monday

  • Fall Session 2 begins.

October 23, Friday

  • Fall Session 2 course registration deadline.

November 2, Monday

  • Last day upon which undergraduates may drop or add any Fall Session 2 course.

November 4, Tuesday

  • Students leaving the College by this date are charged one half of tuition and the Student Services Fee. After this date, students will be charged three quarters of those costs. See the chart under Financial Information for details of room and board charges.

November 9, Monday

  • Deadline to submit a Spring term Inter-House Transfer Application.
  • Deadline for students in the Fall term to notify the College they are not returning to the College housing for the Spring term without financial penalty.

November 9, Monday

  • Last day upon which undergraduates may withdraw from any Fall Session 2 course, a notation of WD will be permanently recorded on the transcript.

November 11, Wednesday

  • University holiday: Veterans’ Day (observed for staff). Classes will be held on a regular Wednesday schedule.
  • Deadline for students in the Fall term to notify the College they are not returning to the College housing for the Spring term without financial penalty.

ELEVENTH MONDAY

November 16, Monday

  • Last day upon which students may withdraw from a Fall term course, a notation of WD will be permanently recorded on the transcript. After this date students are responsible for all courses in which they are enrolled.

November 19, Thursday

  • Declaration of Concentration due for on-cycle first-semester sophomores.

November 25, Wednesday, through November 29, Sunday

  • Thanksgiving recess.

December 1, Tuesday

  • Final degree applications for March 2021 Degree Candidates due.
  • Last day to change concentration for March 2021 Degree Candidates without Administrative Board approval.
  • Last day upon which March 2021 Degree Candidates may submit an approved foreign language citation study plan to the Office of the Registrar.
  • Last day upon which March 2021 Degree Candidates may submit an approved petition for a secondary field to the Office of the Registrar.
  • Advanced Standing-eligible students planning to graduate after six or seven terms in March 2021, or to begin a fourth year AM program in spring term 2021, must file an Advanced Standing Activation Form by this date.

December 3, Thursday

  • Last day of Fall term classes.
  • Fall Session 2 ends.

December 4, Friday

  • Students leaving the College by this date are charged three-quarters of tuition and the Student Services Fee. After this date, students will be charged the full amount of those costs. See the chart under Financial Information for details of room and board charges.
  • Last day in the Fall term upon which undergraduates will ordinarily be granted a leave of absence from the College.
  • Students leaving the College after this date are charged full housing / room fees.

READING PERIOD

December 4, Friday, through December 9, Wednesday

EXAMINATION PERIOD
See the Registrar’s website for exam times and locations for Fall term courses.

December 10, Thursday, through December 19, Saturday

December 20, 2020, Sunday, through January 24, 2021, Sunday

  • Winter recess.

January 15, Friday, through January 24, Sunday

  • Wintersession.

January 18, Monday

  • University holiday: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.


Spring Term

CHECK-IN
For specific times and locations, refer to the Registrar’s website.

January 11, Monday

January 25, Monday

  • Last day for all undergraduates to check-in online.

COURSE REGISTRATION DEADLINE

TO BE ANNOUNCED

  • Course registrations for all students (upperclassmen, first-year students, visiting undergraduates, and new transfer students) are due by 11:59 pm.
  • Spring Session 1 course registration deadline.
  • Students must submit enrollments for their minimum course load – typically 16 credits – on my.harvard by 11:59 pm. Students who do not submit enrollments by this time will be charged a fee.
  • After this date students must obtain permission from all instructors to enroll in courses.

January 25, Monday

  • Spring term begins. First meeting of Spring term classes.
  • Spring Session 1 begins.

January 29, Friday

  • Last day upon which undergraduates may check-in/register late for the Spring term in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
  • Last day upon which undergraduates may cancel their check-in/registration for the Spring term without payment of tuition.

February 8, Monday

  • Last day upon which undergraduates may drop or add any course without a fee.
  • Last day upon which undergraduates may drop or add any Spring Session 1 course without a fee.
  • Makeup examinations for 2020-2021 Fall term begin.
  • Deadline to submit a Fall term Inter-House Transfer Application (Round 1).
  • Deadline to submit a Returning Student Housing Application for fall housing if you were not living in student housing during the Fall term. The Returning Student Housing Application can be found here.

February 15, Monday

  • University holiday: Presidents’ Day.

February 16, Tuesday

  • Last day upon which undergraduates may withdraw from any Spring Session 1 course, a notation of WD will be permanently recorded on the transcript.

 

FIFTH MONDAY

February 22, Monday

  • Last day upon which a full-semester course may be dropped from or added to a student’s record. No course may be changed from letter-graded to Pass/Fail or from Pass/Fail to letter-graded status for the Spring term after this date.
  • Last day upon which students may petition to divide a year-long indivisible course with approval.

March 1, Monday

  • Applications for degree credit for study out of residence for the Fall term are due at the Office of International Education.

March 2, Tuesday

  • Students leaving the College by this date are charged one quarter of tuition and the Student Services Fee. After this date, students will be charged one half of those costs. See the chart under Financial Information for details of room and board charges.

March 12, Friday

  • Spring Session 1 ends.

March 13, Saturday, through March 21, Sunday

  • Spring recess.

March 22, Monday

  • Spring Session 2 begins.

March 26, Friday

  • Spring Session 2 course registration deadline.

March 29, Monday

  • Last day upon which undergraduates may drop or add any Spring Session 2 course.

March 30, Tuesday

  • Students leaving the College by this date are charged one half of tuition and the Student Services Fee. After this date, students will be charged three quarters of those costs. See the chart under Financial Information for details of room and board charges.

April 1, Thursday

  • Final degree applications for May 2021 Degree Candidates due.
  • Last day to change concentration without Administrative Board approval for May 2021 and November 2021 Degree Candidates.
  • Last day upon which May 2021 and November 2021 degree candidates may submit an approved foreign language citation study plan to the Office of the Registrar.
  • Advanced Standing-eligible students planning to graduate after six or seven terms in May 2022 or November 2022, or to begin a fourth year AM program in fall term 2021, must file the Advanced Standing Activation Form by this date.
  • Last day upon which May 2021 and November 2021 Degree Candidates may submit an approved petition for a secondary field to the Office of the Registrar.

April 1, Thursday

  • Applications for degree credit for study out of residence for the summer are due at the Office of International Education.

ELEVENTH MONDAY

April 5, Monday

  • Last day upon which students may withdraw from a Spring term course. Last day upon which students may withdraw from a year-long course. A notation of WD will be permanently recorded on the transcript. After this date students are responsible for all courses in which they are enrolled.

April 5, Monday

  • Last day upon which undergraduates may withdraw from any Spring Session 2 course, a notation of WD will be permanently recorded on the transcript.

April 8, Thursday

  • Declaration of Concentration due for off-cycle first-semester sophomores.

April 28, Wednesday

  • Last day of Spring term classes.
  • Spring Session 2 ends.

April 29, Thursday

  • Students leaving the College by this date are charged three quarters of tuition, and the Student Services Fee. After this date, students will be charged the full amount of those costs. See the chart under Financial Information for details of room and board charges.
  • Last day in the Spring term upon which undergraduates will ordinarily be granted a leave of absence from the College.
  • Students leaving the College after this date are charged full housing/room fees.

READING PERIOD

April 29, Thursday, through May 5, Wednesday

EXAMINATION PERIOD
See the Registrar’s website for exam times and locations for Spring term courses.

May 6, Thursday, through May 15, Saturday

May 17, Monday

  • Deadline to submit a Fall term Inter-House Transfer Application (Round 2).
  • Deadline to submit a Housing Contract Cancellation form for the Fall term without financial penalty.

May 27, Thursday

  • Harvard University Commencement.

May 31, Monday

  • University holiday: Memorial Day.

NB:  Dates for dorm and House openings and closings are currently to be announced.