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siserune · 05-20-2007, 05:29 PM

It looks like the woman from HES who went to MIT has an even stronger pre-HES resume than I described above. She spent a year at MIT Artificial Intelligence lab (at that time basically the world center of computer science) after the first 2 years at MIT, then spent 10 years founding and running a company that developed and sold various computer technologies.

The point is, she had an awesome CV of the kind that would have gotten her into most graduate programs -- a record that would have been the envy of many Harvard College or MIT graduates -- prior to her association with the Extension School. Her ALB thesis advisors were a computer science instructor at the extension school (who is not on the Harvard CS faculty), and a professor at MIT, which suggests that she kept her connections to MIT before returning there. Not exactly a typical admissions pattern for the Extension School.

05-20-2007, 05:29 PM	#16
siserune Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,261	It looks like the woman from HES who went to MIT has an even stronger pre-HES resume than I described above. She spent a year at MIT Artificial Intelligence lab (at that time basically the world center of computer science) after the first 2 years at MIT, then spent 10 years founding and running a company that developed and sold various computer technologies. The point is, she had an awesome CV of the kind that would have gotten her into most graduate programs -- a record that would have been the envy of many Harvard College or MIT graduates -- prior to her association with the Extension School. Her ALB thesis advisors were a computer science instructor at the extension school (who is not on the Harvard CS faculty), and a professor at MIT, which suggests that she kept her connections to MIT before returning there. Not exactly a typical admissions pattern for the Extension School.
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