I always seem to get screwed with things. I buy an iPod at full price, and the next week I find out Harvard will give employees a decent academic discount. I but various seasons of DVD’s for a tv show and then find out a box-set is coming out that includes “extras”. I buy plane tickets and then fare-wars begin and prices drop.<\/p>\n
Today I discovered that Harvard is now offered a Masters in Management (as opposed to the MBA program at Harvard Business School that I’m ineligible for as a Harvard employee). When I graduated in June, I received a Graduate Certificate in Management (8 graduate level courses). The new Masters program is the same exact program but requires 12 courses instead.<\/p>\n
Conceivable, you’d think I could simply re-enroll, take the 4 more classes and come out with a Masters degree. Well, I got an email today from some fellow recent graduates who said they contacted Harvard about doing just that but were told that EXISTING certificate students (which I was merely 3 months ago) are eligible to switch progams. But graduates are not eligible. If we want to get a Masters, we’ll have to start from scratch and take all 12 courses all over again.<\/p>\n
This seems absurd to me. Had I known that a Masters program was in development (which the school must have known by earlier this year when I applied for the Certificate), I would have waited. But they never informed me.<\/p>\n
Perhaps there is just some confusion and I am allowed to transfer the credits? I mean, these courses are the exact same ones I’d be taking over again: same materials, same professors.<\/p>\n
Wow – I feel really pissy and whiny today.<\/p>\n
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