Hello, I checked into the Harvard Extension program today, and waiting on course information to be mailed to me. I am wondering if they except Clep, Dantes, etc, for the General Education, or how does that work? I can complete a degree from Harvard Extension if I spend one semester in residence? What it the acceptance rate? Please let me know, and thanks for the help in advance. Take care, Matt
I don't know about the "CLEP, Dantes" question and my guess about the "residency" question is that it depends entirely on how many courses you can take in that semester and if the RIGHT courses are actually being offered, all at the same time, all during the very semester that you've selected to move to Cambridge (it's just a guess). I'm pretty sure I've got the "rate of acceptance" question nailed: acceptance into the extension degree program is based entirely on your performance in the first few courses you take. If you can do the work then they'll let you go the distance. Jack Harvard Extension ALB '87
Re: Latin? Actually, Jack Tracey (who is a graduate of Harvard Extension) says that the diplomas are in English. Bruce
Re: Re: Latin? This may have changed since the time when he received his degree. A Harvard Extension representive told me via email that the diplomas are in Latin. I'm not sure why it would make a difference though, other than curiosity.
i am almost certainly sure that it was stated somewhere on the Harvard Extension Website (i believe it was in the FAQs) that the diplomas and the degree titles are in Latin.
Re: Re: Latin? Well, in this case, everone's right. My diploma (vintage 1986) is in English but it seems that a year or two after I graduated they switched them to Latin. This, I believe, is consistent with the University as a whole. BTW, it reads: "Harvard University At Cambridge in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts The President and Fellows of Harvard College, with the consent of the Honorable and Reverend the Board of Overseers and acting on the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have conferred on ME the degree of Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies cum laude. In witness whereof, by authority duly committed to us, we have hereunder placed our names and the seal of the University on this fifth day of June in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six and of Harvard College the three hundred and fiftieth." It is then signed by the president, the dean of faculty and the dean of continuing education. The most interesting thing to me is the fact that I forgot that I graduated in '86 and made the mistake of writing '87 in the posting above. Jack
