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

[alexf.1990]

10% is deducted from the retail price. The consumer loses that plus the $50.00 application fee.

In retrospect I should've finished it. But I signed up for the 8 week session and I just didn't find enough value in the material to go through the course. Now if the course had some type of a live chat room with actual instructors or assistants answering questions my concept of this program would be different. I would say that I think the platform where the course is presented is very nice though.If they are going to stay with this model, they might as well make the course mobile friendly since students are expected to just consume pre-created content at all times.

That explains why roughly 10% of my cohort dropped out, I thought it was strange that people would pay that much for the course and then never bother to complete the intro module. The program starts out slow, especially if you have taken any business courses before. The first two modules of Financial Accounting cover the fundamentals of double entry accounting, and then it starts to pick up from there. The platform is a bit dated as well. It was developed in 2014 and released in 2015. It doesn't look like they've updated it much since then.

Have you taken a look at their new program, "Developing yourself as a leader." It's 12 weeks long and includes 8 live classroom sessions with HBS faculty and three 1-on-1 coaching sessions with "HBS coaches." It's a little rich for my blood at $3500, but it seems like its a better value than CORe if you're paying full price. It doesn't appear that they offer financial aid for this program though.