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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know someone who did this exactly but with Princeton. Wears his Princeton colors everywhere 🙄[/quote]

This is fine. But if all you have to show for yourself is where you went to school, that says something about you. On the other hand, if the school gives you opportunities and inspires you to do more and be more -- who gives a *** whether it's HES or Princeton. I think too many people on this forum don't know anything about Harvard, HES, and are *shocked* that the real Harvard doesn't live up to whatever their ill formed expectations are for the institution.

For example did you know both the Education and Div. school have a very high admit rate? You don't see the level of online vitriol mostly by people who never set foot on campus. Did you know Oxford, LSE, Columbia, Northwestern, and Brown all have extension programs too? Yet, you don't see the ridiculous "university of phoenix" accusations at them. Did you know many adcoms at top universities have gone on record that they consider an ALB with extension to be equivalent rigor (academically) with the college?

And yet, the bumbnuts who never had the privilege to piss on the statue; come on occasion, to the yard, and rub the foot and take pictures as if tourist in a foreign land. They are faced with the prospect that someone could participate what they consider to be unattainable and elite, it threatens them. Frankly, getting a Harvard degree is Hard. Yet, they condemn the alternative pathways, such as the Extension School, for the prospect of potential failure looms as a harbinger of their own intrinsic limitations, a threat far more insidious than any external barriers. For in the realm of their imagination, the specter of one's own inadequacies casts a longer shadow. Thus, they retreat into the comforting embrace of the external gatekeepers, mocking alternative paths, and seeking solace in the safety of being barred from entry into her hallowed halls.[/quote]

Ok you are full of sh&t. I went to MIT. Harvard is not hard at all. Most of the kids graduate with 4.0s. That's why MIT students would take classes there. Super easy.[/quote]

MIT is way harder I will admit this. I have also taken some MIT classes through cross enrollment. But you're not the target audience my friend. I'm talking about why extension has so much hate from people not affiliated with Ivies. I can totally understand (even if I disagree) about someone who is 'threatened' because of HES relatively lax admission standards in comparison to the college. I can also see perspectives of people, such as yourself, who know MIT is harder (which it is). I'm talking about most of the idiots on here that are spreading obvious misinformation about HES.

TL;DR: maybe don't swing for the fences without understanding my point or context. I largely agree that MIT does not suffer from the grade inflation that Harvard does.[/quote]

Their admission standards for undergraduate and graduate degree programs are different but still stringent . Full time degrees are geared towards traditional students right out of high school.

The HES is for older people working full time.   The application to get into a degree program requires successfully completing a set amount of courses, a resume and some other requirements.  Thousands of people take classes.  Very few are admitted to one of the degree programs.   Admission standards are not lax at all.  [/quote]

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