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“I love the academic life now and that is almost strange to me,” she said. “The extension school really offered me an opportunity to be the best possible student I could really ever be. The professors had such high expectations of...
According to Linda Spencer, the Assistant Director of the Office of Career Services, the amazing fact about extension school students is that many of them are somewhat easy to place because so many of them come away from Harvard with many years of work experience under their belt. This sort...
“What I find overwhelmingly is that extension schools students really don’t want to misrepresent themselves,” Spencer said. “They know that they don’t have a regular BA, but they do have a bona fide Harvard degree...
However, even though work experience might help extension school students in the long run, many find that living the life of a working professional and a college undergraduate simultaneously extracts a heavy price.
For many of the college’s students, the idea of being an excellent student and an athlete, or a dancer, or a journal editor, seems itself like a lofty goal. But many extension school students are used to taking on so many roles that many of them think...