What are your thoughts on putting a summer course on your resume? What is the view on this and how would I go about doing it? I am thinking about registering for an economic course at Harvard. The deadline is tomorrow so I need answers quick. I have an undergrad degree in finance and will be starting a graduate program at Duke in late July. Can I put Summer 2012 - Harvard University on my resume and will this add SOME value to my resume?
May 20, 2012
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I don't think that this would add any value to your resume.
Any particular reason why not? I'm trying to decide whether to do it or not. I don't think it could hurt.
Its not going towards any degree so it sounds like a bit of a waste of money. You'll have an academic transcript but no course to apply the credits. If you live in Boston and have the cash and the time it can't hurt. But if your planning on moving to Harvard just for this....
The only reasons to do this:
1) For fun, or
2) To build an alternate transcript for MBA application purposes
So I'm guessing you're MMS?
It's probably too late now, but you would have been better off with a short internship.
So many LSE kids do this it's not even funny...
Tomorrow is last day of registration and i can do it online. Can i put Harvard summer 2012 on my resume?
I agree with the above posters. It's not going to help your resume one bit. If you want to take an econ class just for your personal learning and don't mind dropping $5K cash on it, then go ahead.
Generally, harvard's summer program consists of 3 types: rising high school seniors, students from other colleges (mostly rich internationals from Europe and Latin America), and students in the ALM program at harvard extension. Most of the high school kids take the intro level courses, so if you're taking an upper-level econ course, you can avoid them.
For what it's worth, Daron Acemoglu, the eminent MIT economist, is teaching an intro econ course at Harvard this summer.
The main reason why this isn't going to help you is because the Harvard Summer program has no "application" process; people just sign up for the course. If it's prestige/cred you're going for, there is zero brand associated with it because as far as we're concerned, some high schooler with sub-par SATs (and thus no chance of getting into Harvard for real) could enroll and take Harvard Summer School classes.
If you're still interested, then I would suggest taking ECON S-1010 (Microecon Theory) or ECON S-1913 (Behavioural Finance). It's a pity they cancelled ECON S-1123 (Intro to Econometrics).
EDIT: just realized this thread is old as hell (a week in Internet days might as well be equivalent to two months). My bad.
Will taking summer courses at Harvard help? (Originally Posted: 03/19/2007)
I was thinking of taking just 2 courses this summer if I don't get an internship. That way I'd fully comprehend the material, I'd pick very difficult classes, plus I'd be aiming for an A. Would this really benefit me, or would taking them at my college work the same? Also, anyone know if mankiw teaches during the summer?
I was thinking about doing the same thing.. you beat me to asking the question.
Yes, IF you actaully go to Harvard. Otherwise it ll just be a great experience to discuss in your interviews.
Don't think it will help......just take it at your school, which is apparently a super target according to your profile.
^ can't sense sarcasm?
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