Will graduate schools in the United States and abroad accept an online college degree

[eLearner]

@KSoul And, we still land on the only answer of yes, you can.

It's more like, you could ("could" denoting a lesser/weak possibility, whereas "can" denotes a greater/strong possibility").

It would be naive to assume anyone in the forum would think the feat would be easy. 

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm far from naive. If anything, the points I'm making demonstrate that as opposed to the opposite points being made. Moreover, I've made no assumptions about people thinking it would be easy. I'm speaking only in terms of possibility and probability, leaning more toward probability (and how low it is in this case) since anything is possible but that doesn't mean it's very probable.

However, the comparison of optimism and realistic doesn't apply to the forum. Just spending a weekend or two and reading about countless accomplishments from people who did unrealistic things like completing a degree from 0-120 credits in 6 months, a master's in one term, no degree to earning a bachelor, master's, and then doctorate late in life. Probability is often rooted in one's limited beliefs, which is why the world marvels at accomplishments by others because they could never see themself pulling the stunt off.

Apples and oranges. You're describing self-determination to complete a task that a person is usually already eligible for. It's commendable but very different than getting into Harvard Graduate School with a degree from a school perceived at the bottom of the academic hierarchy. That's simply because completing those education tasks you mentioned really are largely and mostly up to the individual: those schools are generally open enrollment and therefore non-competitive. In the Harvard situation, the school is not open enrollment and enrollment is extremely competitive, so much of an individual's control in the matter is going to be given away to those who will decide on their enrollment when the time comes.

Is it realistic to think the OP without a degree will one day get into Harvard? Not knowing how driven the OP is or having a gauge of his intelligence, it is impossible to say; however, taking being realistic off the board, earning a degree from the schools mentioned in this forum won't stop him from this lofty goal and even better, might open his mind to the countless creative ways he actually might be able to pull it off. And, I hope her/she/them that comes into this forum continues to break all of these unrealistic barriers traditionalist hold up.

I hope the person does whatever they want to do as well, but I also don't want to see someone lose out by putting all of their eggs in one basket, which is why I left another post detailing some alternatives that include Harvard. Having a plan B, C or more is never a bad thing.