Harvard University
- Academics

Its Harvard

World Class professors, classmates, resources, and facilities. However, it is easy to get through Harvard taking easy classes and not challenging yourself. It is very easy to get a B+ and difficult to get an A or a C.

Harvard College is a liberal arts undergraduate program, meaning there is no business, marketing, communications, accounting, finance major or concentration. There are a diversity of programs and the option for independent or special concentrations if a subject area isn't available. (One noticeably absent undergraduate concentration is Urban Planning or Architecture and this is usually a "special concentration" based on Graduate School of Design classes). The graduate schools are a great resource for undergrads, and you can take classes at many of them as an upperclassman.

Excellent Experience

Holistic, totally involved experience with the top students and professors in the world.

African American Studies 40 Years Ago

I entered Harvard University in 1969, after Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated that spring. Our class had the largest number of African American students up to that point. Our demonstrations led to the establishment of the African American Studies Dept. I majored in this this department with its emphasis on both African and African American history, politics, sociology and literature. The Harvard/Radcliffe African American Cultural Center was established at the same time as the Department, and provided a summer job for me the summer after my junior year. I have only revisited Harvard once since I graduated for the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Department. I am sure much has changed in the interim.