Article bashes Harvard Extension ALM Grad

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I asked ChatGPT-4. It said HES graduates should proactively identify themselves as HES grads because it has different admission standards than the other Harvard colleges. I asked about Northwestern SPS, and it said like HES, SPS grads should preemptively identify themselves as SPS grads. Then I asked about OMSCS Georgia Tech. It said OMSCS grads don't need to identify themselves as grad from the online program because GT states that the admission criteria for on-campus students are identical to online students. However it said if you're asked if you did it online, then you should be truthful. GPT-4 is so smart.

There is a guess that this was written with a smirk, as ChatGPT is in such an infancy stage of providing quality analytical data; however, it can offer a respectable theory. Interestingly, the world understands online or extension schools even less than ChatGPT. Ultimately, it's all irrelevant since most don't know the difference and will fall closer to not knowing enough to care.

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Let's focus on the unfair treatment of Harvard Extension School degrees.

Here are the 13 schools of Harvard University.

• Harvard College
  
• Harvard Business School
  
• Harvard Dental School
  
• Harvard Divinity School
  
• Harvard Extension School
  
• Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  
• Harvard Graduate School of Design
  
• Harvard Graduate School of Education
  
• Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  
• Harvard Kennedy School
  
• Harvard Law School
  
• Harvard Medical School
  
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  

Graduates from the other 12 schools can list their degrees as being from 'Harvard University' without any problems.
However, graduates of the Harvard Extension School must list their degree as from the "Harvard Extension School," which seems like unnecessary discrimination.

As sanantone has pointed out, it's Harvard itself that discriminates against Extension students by forcing them to write their resumes like that.  If the University that grants you the degree is discriminating against you, how can you blame the public for thinking there is something "different" about the Extension school vs the other Harvard schools?  Pretty sure this is all a nothingburger if Harvard stops with all the weird degree naming and strange resume formats it forces upon Extension students.  

I mean, if you read the article, Rufo can't even say "I have a Master's degree from Harvard University" (which is the truth) without getting bashed by the public.  If I ever get a degree from Harvard Extension, I would at least want to say to employers I am a Harvard grad without feeling I am lying through my teeth.

Agree and feel that Harvard only makes these distinctions due to students finding a significant financial loophole to secure a degree from Harvard at a fraction of the cost. Even though last check, need-based grants at Harvard were above 60% of students in the bachelor level.

After Covid, online/extension vs. traditional campus students has become less debated. If you hold a hold line, the student that spent the last two years at home/apartment taking their classes (many still do), by these rigid guidelines, those students/degrees should not be of equal value. And, of course, that is not the angle Universities are taking with the students. The world shifted after covid and degrees, and the perception of online studies is vastly different than just a few years ago.