Cross-Registration Instructions for HLS Students

• 2Ls and 3Ls must be registered for at least 8 HLS credits and and maintain at least a 10 credits to meet the residency requirement.
• The course may not conflict with any other courses you are enrolled in, and you may not arrange to arrive late or leave early from any courses and travel time between schools must be allowed.
• You are not exceeding the cross-registration maximum of 12 credits.
• You are not exceeding the term maximum of 16 credits.
• JD students who want to cross-register at another school during winter term need prior approval from the Registrar’s Office (registrar@law.harvard.edu).
• Upon submitting their cross-registration petition, LLM students will need to be approved by their advisor in the Graduate Program.
• Please note: 1Ls and Joint Degree students are generally not permitted to cross-register. Please contact the Registrar’s Office (registrar@law.harvard.edu) for more information.

Deadline: Check my.harvard for deadlines for other Schools.

Contact: registrar@law.harvard.edu or 617-495-4612

• Cross-registration for HLS students extends to most HU schools, except the Division of Continuing Education, as well as MIT and the Fletcher School at Tufts.
• Explore the course catalogs at the following links: Harvard University course catalog, Tufts SIS, MIT course catalog

Deadline: Check my.harvard for deadlines for other Schools.

• All courses at Harvard, MIT and Fletcher qualify for cross-registration as long as they don’t significantly repeat course work previously done at any other school.
• JD students who want to cross-register at another school during winter term need prior approval from the Registrar’s Office (registrar@law.harvard.edu). Upon submitting their cross-registration petition, LLM students will need to be approved by their advisor in the Graduate Program.

Deadline: Check my.harvard for deadlines for other Schools.

• Petition for Harvard or MIT courses in my.harvard.edu.
  • Find more information on petitioning in my.harvard.edu and the MIT petition process.
• Petition for Fletcher courses in the Tufts SIS.
• Depending on the school, your petition may need approval from the instructor and/or the host school Registrar’s Office. Once submitted, your petition(s) will be routed to the appropriate approvers automatically.
  • Note: Approval from the faculty member is not the same as being enrolled by the Registrar’s Office. Additionally, approval by the HLS Registrar’s Office within my.harvard is conditional upon compliance with all cross-registration policies.
• For LLM students only: Upon submitting your cross-registration petition, all LLM students will need to be approved by his or her advisor in the Graduate Program. If approved by your advisor then the petition will move onto the faculty member and so on.
  • Please note, if you’re submitting a petition for a course at Tufts, you will need to follow up with the Graduate Program for advisor approval outside of the online cross-registration system.

Deadline: Check my.harvard for deadlines for other Schools.

• For Harvard and MIT courses: Once all applicable approvals in my.harvard have been granted, you must return to my.harvard.edu to manually enroll yourself in the course(s) of your choosing. Once you enroll in my.harvard, the HLS Registrar’s Office will check your schedule for compliance with our cross-registration policies and add the course(s) to Helios.
  • Note: Adding courses to Helios is a manual process; please allow for processing time between your my.harvard enrollment and when the course appears in Helios.
  • If there is an issue with finalizing your enrollment in Helios, the HLS RO will be in touch with you directly.
• Tufts courses will appear in Helios once the Tufts Registrar’s Office confirms your enrollment with the HLS Registrar’s Office.

• HLS students must comply with the cross-registration enrollment period dates set forth by each school. If a student does not submit a cross-registration petition during the specific school’s enrollment window then they will not be enrolled in the course.
• If a student intends to drop a cross-registered course then they should be adhering to the school with the earlier add/drop deadline to ensure that they are dropped without penalty.

Deadline: Check my.harvard for deadlines for other Schools.

• You may drop a cross-registered course as long as you are in compliance with all cross-registration deadlines.
• Harvard and MIT courses can be dropped directly within my.harvard.edu.
• In order to drop a Tufts course, you must contact the HLS Registrar’s Office. In turn, our office will notify the host school of your drop.

Deadline: Check my.harvard for deadlines for other Schools. Please note that you should be adhering to the school with the earlier drop deadline to ensure that they are dropped without penalty.

• Details: Let the HLS Registrar’s Office know whether you want to drop an HLS course in place of a cross-registered course. Due to conflicting cross-registration enrollment periods, HLS students will be dropped from an HLS course without penalty. Please note, students will only be dropped without penalty when he or she needs to accommodate a cross-registered course.
• Deadline: All students should be adhering to the school with the earlier drop deadline to ensure that they are dropped without penalty.
• Contact: To drop an HLS course, please send the course information to: registrar@law.harvard.edu.