Incoming Students

Submit a photo that meets passport specifications and Harvard size restrictions. Students who recently received a Harvard ID card are not required to upload a new photo.

The Resident Deans of First-Year Students (RDFs) use information provided on the housing questionnaire to match roommate and entry groups. Please describe yourself, your habits, and your preferences frankly and completely. Harvard cannot honor requests...

Every first-year student receives a team of advisers based on responses in the advising questionnaire. Students will receive notification of their advisers in mid-August. Complete the advising questionnaire

First-year families may introduce their student through a letter to the First-Year Experience Office staff. Letters may address academic background, but it is also helpful to include experiences that have shaped the student’s personality outside the...

The Harvard Register is a hardbound yearbook published each August. It contains the photos, hometowns, and secondary schools of all incoming first-year students. This is the only tangible historical record that captures your entry to Harvard. Copies are...

Watch your @college email for details on these required online exams. All incoming students are encouraged to complete their exams during the first exam window, which runs June 1 to June 18.

Massachusetts requires enrolled students to submit forms proving immunizations. You should review the list of required immunizations, receive any missing ones, then submit your immunization history to HUHS. Non-submission and/or missing immunizations will...

These optional placement exams provide course level recommendations. Any student interested in studying the life or physical sciences, or in medical school, should take both biology and chemistry. The exam window runs from June 19 to July 24.

Contact the College Board to request an AP score report that includes all scores, using school code 3434. Advanced Placement exams can be useful for placement recommendations, but are not required.

The Harvard University Student Health Program is comprised of the Student Health Fee (required of all undergraduates and guarantees access to most medical services including internal medicine and specialty care) and the Student Health Insurance Plan...