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<p>Well, the problem is rather with practices that have financially enriched HES at the expense of some of its students. See posts #8 and #10 of this thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/613594-rejected-harvard-extension-school.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/613594-rejected-harvard-extension-school.html</a></p>
<p>Questions the Attorney General might ask include: why can the academic entry
requirements for AA and ALB degrees only be satisfied by a process that includes paying thousands of dollars to HES? Why is no other evidence of academic fitness allowed as a substitute?</p>
<p>As for misleading advertising, the single most misleading thing is HES’ complete avoidance of the biggest, simplest question triggered by a reading of their marketing material. Namely, **if Harvard is so expensive, with tuition (just the classes, not room, board, and the rest) now running at well over four thousand dollars per course, isn’t it “too good to be true” to expect the same thing at one thousand dollars per course through the Extension School? What’s the catch? **</p>
<p>If you want more specific examples from the HES web site, front and center on their page about undergraduate degrees we find the following:</p>
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<p>Adjunct’s, non-PhDs, high-school teachers and people with non-academic daytime jobs are not examples of “distinguished faculty members”, but there are probably more of them teaching at HES than distinguished Harvard faculty.</p>
<p>Harvard College doesn’t make such boasts about where its graduates end up. The Extension School considers it acceptable to explicitly dangle visions of Oxford and Cambridge graduate studies in front of candidates for an associates’ degree.</p>