Anyone following the viral Harvard University *Extension School* controversy?

[Anonymous]

What a laugh riot this all is, highlighting striver frauds who buy these fake Ivy degrees.

The grifter obsessed with smearing the Harvard president is a Georgetown alum living in Washington state who relatively recently bought an online master’s degree from Harvard’s open-admit extension school. But he deceptively and compulsively called himself a Harvard alum, failing to disclose his precise degree and that it was from the largely online extension school with essentially no admissions standards.

He even used the phrase “night school” to imply he was dashing through the snow in Cambridge after work, when in fact it was an online program he did from home in Washington state. lol. Obviously all an attempt to confer unearned status and smarts.

If you live in Washington state, why wouldn’t you do a program at UW? Because he wanted to buy a phony Harvard degree, right? I assume anyone with one of these bonus Ivy degrees is trying to defraud people.

[Anonymous]

Plenty of non-grifters attend extension schools. You seem like you have a screw loose to paint those people with a broad brush.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of non-grifters attend extension schools. You seem like you have a screw loose to paint those people with a broad brush.

Does it change your POV if you know it is the guy who "scalped" former Harvard prez Claudine Gay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of non-grifters attend extension schools. You seem like you have a screw loose to paint those people with a broad brush.

Why exactly would a non-local choose open-admit HARVARD extension school over a perfectly fine local program, where they can drive to campus if need be, meet classmates, chat with professors, use university resources, and tap the network? At its core it’s attracting insecure status-seeking frauds seeking to dupe people.

[Anonymous]

OP, care to share a link? WTH are you talking about??

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you are the striver here -- an insane striver obsessed with Harvard having an extension school?

Find something else to think about?

[Anonymous]

Harvard Extension has a required on-campus component, though perhaps it was suspended druing Covid since the entire campus went virtual.

The degree they receive is the same as others who attend Harvard.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/10/7/extension-school-scrut/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a laugh riot this all is, highlighting striver frauds who buy these fake Ivy degrees.

The grifter obsessed with smearing the Harvard president is a Georgetown alum living in Washington state who relatively recently bought an online master’s degree from Harvard’s open-admit extension school. But he deceptively and compulsively called himself a Harvard alum, failing to disclose his precise degree and that it was from the largely online extension school with essentially no admissions standards.

He even used the phrase “night school” to imply he was dashing through the snow in Cambridge after work, when in fact it was an online program he did from home in Washington state. lol. Obviously all an attempt to confer unearned status and smarts.

If you live in Washington state, why wouldn’t you do a program at UW? Because he wanted to buy a phony Harvard degree, right? I assume anyone with one of these bonus Ivy degrees is trying to defraud people.

The irony is you probably believed that virtual school during the pandemic was real school and everyone complaining was just a horrible stupid parent.

Do you think that students have to be physically present in a classroom to get an education?

In many ways yes for sundry reasons. In the first phase of the pandemic, our nation's school system (from K-12 through higher ed whether publics or privates) did the best they could in the circumstances. But nearly all people acknowledge that remote learning is not as effective as cultivating social skills and fostering connections as a student may benefit from when in an in-person learning mode.

That said, not noting that your graduate degree was conferred by an Ivy's extension school, not the university, is disingenuous and dishonest.

[Anonymous]

Harvard’s extension school website is perfectly clear on how to write the degree on your resume and CV. Always include Extension School or Extension Studies. You’re obviously purposely being deceptive when you strike Extension School from your resume, bio, and/or verbal communication. It’s shady and teases out you’re a liar with serious issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of non-grifters attend extension schools. You seem like you have a screw loose to paint those people with a broad brush.

Why exactly would a non-local choose open-admit HARVARD extension school over a perfectly fine local program, where they can drive to campus if need be, meet classmates, chat with professors, use university resources, and tap the network? At its core it’s attracting insecure status-seeking frauds seeking to dupe people.

If you want an online degree, why not get a branded one? Just common sense. Stop with the fake outrage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, care to share a link? WTH are you talking about??

[Anonymous]

Sounds as though Harvard University is the one running the grift here, if one buys your assumption (which is probably incorrect) that their online programs are not legitimate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of non-grifters attend extension schools. You seem like you have a screw loose to paint those people with a broad brush.

Does it change your POV if you know it is the guy who "scalped" former Harvard prez Claudine Gay?

No. She was a woeful candidate before her antisemitism and plagiarism showed up. He just gave unrefutable truth. Don't you believe in equal outcomes?

Why wouldn't Gay get the same outcome as the UPenn president or the plagiarist from Stanford?

[Anonymous]

Op-there plenty of evidence that person is a jerk with ulterior motives without involving your classist nonsense.

[Anonymous]

"Rufo, in an email, disagreed that there was any difference between Harvard Extension School and any other school. He said he was unaware of any debate over whether HES should be referred to differently than any other graduate degree from Harvard."

Christopher Rufo Claims a Degree from “Harvard.” Umm ... Not Quite | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/170647/christopher-rufo-harvard-degree-misleading