USC Columbia or Harvard Extension School

HappyAlumnus
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 01:05:38 +0000

I graduated from Harvard Law School, where I earned a J.D. The name “University of South Carolina” is more prestigious than Harvard Extension School.

HES is NOT Harvard College. HES is, more or less, a community college geared at the working people of the Boston metropolitan area, and a degree from there will mark you as that demographic: not Tufts, BU, Brandeis, BC or Harvard College material.

Conversely, USC won’t limit you; if you’re from South Carolina, it’s often either there or Clemson, whether you have a 95th percentile SAT score or not. There are plenty of USC graduates who go onto Ivy League schools for grad school. There were several USC graduates in my class at HLS. There were no HES graduates in my class at HLS.

I’d finish up at USC and then look at a degree from a “real” Harvard school (i.e., not HES) for grad school, if you’re planning on grad school. If you’re not planning on grad school, I’d still finish up at USC or maybe transfer to Clemson or another reputable university.

Are you in the Honors College at USC? If not, why not transfer into it?