Ivy League online degrees

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by cutiepatootie

I have taken online classes and they may not be in a classroom setting , but they are just as hard as in-class. I went the traditional route for my degree and i can compare both ways, they both hold equal weight when it comes to class load.

So you were fortunate to go to Harvard live and in-person, doesn't mean the person who works f/t, has a family , and does the degree online at night is a lessor person. They worked equally as hard as you did and paid the same tuition as well as struggled with the same grades assigned by the same professors.
I think it i s harder online because you don't have that classroom interaction and you have to really force yourself to be disciplined to sit in front of a computer to do the work vs showing up for class.

I think the point is, though, that it isn't a Harvard degree or a Harvard class. It is a "Harvard Extension School" degree/certificate, which isn't the same thing. Harvard has admission standards. Harvard Extension does not. It's not that they are a lesser person, but they won't get the same degree.

Boston U. does the same thing, with a program for people looking to learn web skills, etc. Anyone can join the program, but they will get some sort of certificate, not a BU degree.

[MTSUGURL]

Originally posted by irishpipes
I don't know about Harvard, but I am opposed to online degrees. I got my masters the old-fashioned way, but now people who work for me are getting the same degree from the same institution without ever setting foot in a classroom. Even their exams are online. I think they lost the information gained by analyzing information together with other students. Plus, many of the classes did not have online lectures - just reading assignments with homework or papers due. Their degrees look exactly the same as mine - there is no distiction that theirs was done online.

My degree is technicaly an online degree. I was majoring in Elementary Ed. and found out that I HATED the classroom during substitute teaching. I switched my major to Liberal Studies (Bachelor of Science, but an online degree.) The difference is that I have to take a cumulative project class that is completely led online. My degree is still from MTSU, all of my classes but four are completed on campus, but it's an online degree. The reason I did this is because I know I'm going to seminary for grad school, and graduation came quicker this way than switching to another major. I assure you, no less work is done because it's online. If anything, my online classes were harder because they required a measure of self discipline above that which was required of me in most of my on campus classes.

[adpiucf]

Online learning is just another way for schools to attract students who wouldn't have otherwise paid them money to learn because they're too far away.

[Neutral]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

I think the point is, though, that it isn't a Harvard degree or a Harvard class. It is a "Harvard Extension School" degree/certificate, which isn't the same thing. Harvard has admission standards. Harvard Extension does not. It's not that they are a lesser person, but they won't get the same degree.

Boston U. does the same thing, with a program for people looking to learn web skills, etc. Anyone can join the program, but they will get some sort of certificate, not a BU degree.

Your post is totally false and ignorant!

Harvard Extension School may allow the public to take (many, but not all) individual classes, but they have very clear admission criteria for the degree programs.

Harvard Extension School is one of the 12 degree-granting schools within Harvard University.
To mind you, only around 2.5% of the class takers are able to earn degrees from the Extension School.

Originally Posted by Neutral

Your post is totally false and ignorant!

Harvard Extension School may allow the public to take (many, but not all) individual classes, but they have very clear admission criteria for the degree programs.

To mind you, only around 2.5% of the class takers are able to earn the degrees from the Extension School.

You register on GreekChat and your first post was to a thread that hasn't been replied to in 2 1/2 years?

YOU R SO SMRT.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by OTW

You register on GreekChat and your first post was to a thread that hasn't been replied to in 2 1/2 years?

YOU R SO SMRT.

Haha, wow - nothing like being called "ignorant" about a post I made almost 3 years ago, a post which is, apparently, correct.

Too funny...

[Neutral]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

Haha, wow - nothing like being called "ignorant" about a post I made almost 3 years ago, a post which is, apparently, correct.

Too funny...

I replied because it is still on the internet. I will refute any false claims regardless how OLD they are.

[Neutral]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

Haha, wow - nothing like being called "ignorant" about a post I made almost 3 years ago, a post which is, apparently, correct.

Too funny...

If you don't even know the DIFFERENT admission policies for general course takers and degree candidates, you have NO say about the Extension School.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by Neutral

Your post is totally false and ignorant!

Harvard Extension School may allow the public to take (many, but not all) individual classes, but they have very clear admission criteria for the degree programs.

Harvard Extension School is one of 12 degree-granting schools within Harvard University.
To mind you, only around 2.5% of the class takers are able to earn the degrees from the Extension School.

No, YOUR post is totally false and ignorant!!!!

We are open to students with a variety of backgrounds and goals, with no formal requirements beyond a commitment to an academic challenge. --http://www.extension.harvard.edu/prospective/

To take courses at the Harvard Extension School, you simply register. No preliminary application is required. --http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2008-09/register/

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by OTW

You register on GreekChat and your first post was to a thread that hasn't been replied to in 2 1/2 years?

YOU R SO SMRT.

Originally Posted by Senusret I

No, YOUR post is totally false and ignorant!!!!

We are open to students with a variety of backgrounds and goals, with no formal requirements beyond a commitment to an academic challenge. --http://www.extension.harvard.edu/prospective/

To take courses at the Harvard Extension School, you simply register. No preliminary application is required. --http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2008-09/register/

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by preciousjeni

I like this one better...

[Neutral]

Originally Posted by preciousjeni

Hey, could you read carefully (at all)?

[Neutral]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

No, YOUR post is totally false and ignorant!!!!

We are open to students with a variety of backgrounds and goals, with no formal requirements beyond a commitment to an academic challenge. --http://www.extension.harvard.edu/prospective/

To take courses at the Harvard Extension School, you simply register. No preliminary application is required. --http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2008-09/register/

If you don't even know the DIFFERENT policies for general course takers and degree candidates, you have NO say on this matter!

Few course takers were admitted into the degree programs, even fewer (around 2.5%) could graduate with degrees or diplomas from the Extension School.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Neutral

If you don't even know the DIFFERENT admission policies for general course takers and degree candidates, you have NO say about the Extension School.

Originally Posted by Neutral

If you don't even know the DIFFERENT policies for general course takers and degree candidates, you have No say on this matter!

Few course takers were admitted into the degree programs, even fewer (around 2.5%) could graduate with degrees or diplomas from the Extension School.

Point us to the part of the website that explains this...because, according to the website, you can just register for any class and start your way to a degree without an application process.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

Point us to the part of the website that explains this...because, according to the website, you can just register for any class and start your way to a degree without an application process.

It can't be done because it's a DIFFERENT website with DIFFERENT requirements and a DIFFERENT internet in A DIFFERENT WORLD with Lisa Bonet as Denise Huxtable in a starring role!!!!!