<p>EK:</p>
<p>I see that you've stopped pretending that you have not heard about Harvard. Allow me to know more about the relationship between Harvard and Harvard Extension School, since I am 15 minutes from them and have been part of that community since the 1970s.<br>
Harvard Extension School is not Harvard College, but many if not most of the profs are either Harvard faculty or faculty of well-known nearby universities. Many Harvard profs in fact make additional income by teaching courses that they teach to Harvard College undergrads during the daytime.
My S took 5 courses, 4 with Harvard faculty and 1 with a Tufts prof. This is not to say that community colleges cannot have great profs. It's just that Stanford, Chicago, and, yes, Reed have a sense of the quality of courses at Harvard and Harvard Extension School, but not of Podunk Community College. By the way, my description of some (not all) students at community college in need of support comes from the dean of humanities at a local, well-respected community college.
You can argue all you want, but you cannot use your D's experience to argue that, a priori, all colleges will look kindly on community college courses. In fact, guess what? my S cannot use his Harvard Extension courses for credit at Harvard! But he can use his AP credits to get Advanced Standing. Convinced?</p>