<p>Hi, I would like to take some harvard courses at their Extension School just because I think they are interesting, but I would also like to transfer to Harvard College next year. Do you think they will let me do this?</p>
<p>where are you going to school now?
I know you can't transfer to harvard if you're in the visiting students program. Not sure about the extension school though.</p>
<p>I am going to Bentley College. I also got accepted at BC, BU and Washington and Lee University but ended up going to Bentley because they gave me more money.</p>
<p>You should call the Admissions office to find out...im not really sure.</p>
<p>Jehp, I think they will theoretically let you do this, but that it is still statistically very unlikely. Harvard transfer admissions are extremely competitive and unpredictable, so you should have a back-up plan. Moreover, I am not sure how difficult the courses at the extension school are viewed. Some, are extremely difficult, and do not differ *at all<a href="including%20the%20same%20professor">/i</a> from the courses taught at Harvard FAS. Other courses are exceedingly easy, and do not hold a candle to actual Harvard College courses. My brother just finished a semester of dual-enrollment at Harvard Extension and MIT's Visiting Student Program. He was not particularly impressed with the rigor of his coursework. My mother just finished a course there, too, but she found it to be quite rigorous (she already has a master's degree.) My examination of the respective syllabi corroborated these sentiments. </p>
<p>In short, you can probably do it, but I have serious doubts about it being to your advantage to do it. Moreover, I suspect that the good folks over at Byerly will be less than forthcoming about how they view it if you put the question to them. Also, I am unsure that other schools will view HES as more challenging than Bentley. I would do some serious investigation before making the commitment.</p>
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<p>I agree. The admissions officers at Harvard are quite calculated in their responses.</p>
<p>Soo what do you guys suggest? Should I take the course at HES or not? What other things can I do aside from that in order to gain admission to H? BTW even though I am a US Citizen, I am considered international because I've lived in the Dominican Republic all my life. Do they put internationals in a separate pool?</p>
<p>If there is a secret to getting into Harvard, you are unlikely to find it here. As far as I know, all transfer students are in the same pool, though I am not entirely certain. I don't think you are likely to be helped by going to HES, personally. The admissions committee is simply not going to say "wow, this kid really wants to go to Harvard because he's here at HES," or "Gee wiz, this kid did well at HES, get him into FAS right away!" </p>
<p>I'm honestly at a loss for what they look for in transfer students, but I do not think your application will be aided by going to HES. Perhaps it could furnish you with good reasons for attending Harvard, but I am led to believe these count for next to naught relative to other factors, viz. your grades, scores, and recs. </p>
<p>In short: don't count on transferring to Harvard. You should make your decisions based on the assumption that you will not be admitted. It will probably be foolhardy not to.</p>
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<p>What other things can I do aside from that in order to gain admission to H?</p>
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<p>You can get a 4.0 in the most demanding liberal arts course schedule available at your current school. Nothing else compares to the importance of doing that.</p>
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<p>If extension got you into Harvard, half the kids in the US would now be there!</p>
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You can get a 4.0 in the most demanding liberal arts course schedule available at your current school. Nothing else compares to the importance of doing that.
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That seemed to work for me for Yale and Stanford, but not for Harvard. Many people with weak high school records and a 3.7-3.8 in college were accepted this year. Involvement in politics, weaker than usual science background, sub 1350 SAT and essays with questionable authorship seems to be also working for some. Harvard is full of surprises. </p>
<p>Maybe that is why 43 out of their 75 Nobel Prize winners didn't receive any of their degrees by Harvard.</p>
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<p>I cannot believe you just said that, but I love you for saying it.</p>
<p>wow, that's ridiculous. why would you question the authorship of my essays? obviously there was some part of my application, and whoever else your referring to, that impressed harvard more than yours. why would YOU bring that up? they didn't misread the applications and they can take whoever they want to take. how absurd that harvard doesn't pick one applicant over another based on 100 points of an SAT score or .3 GPA points...</p>
<p>on what basis can you question the authorship of the essays?</p>
<p>I think it was a left-handed way of scoffing the quality of the essays, which is actually ironic. Anyway, Shag, shake if off. You're going to Harvard, and he's going to Yale or Stanford. Envy emanates from every echelon.</p>
<p>Excuse me guys, but what are you talking about? Who are you, For Shaganov? I was referring to a girl that I went to high school with.
Calipharius, damn right I am.</p>
<p>Ohhhhh! Someone has a guilty conscience.</p>
<p>oh, ok wow, you desribed me exactly onebigtree, with the poor high school performance, 3.7 in college, 2100 on SAT and involvement in politics, and i thought you were saying my essay was written for me(especially since when i posted one my essays here someone said 'there is no way that you wrote that') it seemed like a bizzare comment because my esays were about the bahagvad gita, memorial church and john kerry's acceptance speech at the DNC, and I'm pretty sure no one but me would ever choose to write about those three things in a way that related to wanting to harvard, (especially considering some of the disparaging comments from people on this board about that last topic) or that they really could in a way that would make much sense. but anyway, i put a LOT of time into those essays and they're a pretty accurate reflection of who I am and i'm also pretty grateful to harvard for reading them carefully enough to let me in (i think they compensated for the fact that i didn't have a 4.0, etc), so that's why when you said that about they weren't mine I got defensive. eesh. and you're right, we're all going to great schools, so we should all be happy. on that note, i'm going to get dressed for a gallery opening downtown. iy yi yi! summer!</p>
<p>The person that I am talking about didn't work for Kerry and didn't take the new SAT. Her high school GPA is sub 3.0 and has definitely never heard of Alexander Shaganov. Sorry for the confusion.</p>