For Harvard Extension School, do you take the admissions requirement courses first?

[alexf.1990]

It's a challenging program, for sure. You have 5-6 years to finish the 12 courses required in the program though. Just one course a semester over that period would be enough to graduate on time. I've been looking into the ALM in Finance myself. I'll have completed the CORe program at the end of this month, then I'll need to take one course to be admitted.

Does anyone else have any experience with HES? The Extension School Grant is of particular interest. With that grant, you can space your courses out enough to bring the total cost under $15,000 for a masters. I'm not sure what the income requirements are for that grant though, or how many slots they have available.

Curious as well. I remember seeing their lists of grants and scholarships but not seeing much information on them.

I imagine we'll start seeing related posts when the Poetry in America courses start for the summer term!

The people taking the Poetry in America courses will probably be doing it on an ad hoc basis, I doubt they'll have much information on the grants or scholarships. The Extension School Grant is need-based and gives half off your fall and spring tuition, as well as one free course during the summer. There aren't any published statistics on it though. I've read a few posts from people who got the grant, but nobody gave specifics on their income. One of the posts indicated that the person had an income high enough to be surprised when he was offered the grant. It's also worth noting that Harvard has the largest endowment of any university, so the threshold income could be quite high.