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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Technically speaking, a degree from the Harvard Extension School is a degree from Harvard University.

But just saying that you went to “Harvard” without clarifying that it was via their extension school is misleading.

It’s not the fact that it’s online. It’s that extension schools usually don’t have the same acceptance standards or curriculum.[/quote]

So what? If you are an athlete recruit do you need to clarify that? Or that you checked a race box? Or that your parents made a large donation or you are a legacy? If you're so easily mislead that's on you.[/quote]

Athletes don’t get degrees conferred from “Harvard Athletics.” Legacies don’t get degrees from “Harvard Legacy School.”

These are not comparable.

On the other hand, the extension school degree is apparently conferred by the “Harvard Extension School.” It may be a component college of “Harvard University,” but it’s not the same as getting a degree from one their traditional colleges.

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1. There is only one college at Harvard.
2. It is conferred by FAS which also confers GSAS, and the college.
3. It is designed to help the poorer and working class of Boston and Cambridge to obtain a Harvard Degree. It was designed to have equivalent academic rigor.
4. It has evolved in scope and somewhat in mission, but as the crimson has reported on before, many of the classes are copied from the college or GSAS, and the education is closely monitored by FAS to ensure rigor.
5. There are even courses every year that are cross offered with other schools..

I really wish people would stop talking about things they know nothing about. Not every extension program is the same. Some have different standards or reasons for existing. The mission of HES to provide Harvard quality classes to the public and its matriculated students. It also weeds out students that would not make a good fit from its degree programs (around 70% are weeded out from the gatekeeper classes and by at least one calculation when you account for yield and over all scores the inverted 'admission rate' is closer to the 9-11% mark).[/quote]

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