What is a "house" at Harvard Extension? How are different "houses" different?

[Gauss44]

What is a "house" at Harvard Extension? How are different "houses" different? Do they try to group people together who have something in common?

Relevant because Harvard Extension is a common place to do pre-med work and to get degrees relevant to being pre-med.

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[mehc012]

What is a "house" at Harvard Extension? How are different "houses" different? Do they try to group people together who have something in common?

Relevant because Harvard Extension is a common place to do pre-med work and to get degrees relevant to being pre-med.

More relevant in the postbacc subforum...

 

[Ismet]

Are you sure you're not confusing Harvard with Harvard Extension? Harvard has dormitories called houses. That does not apply to Harvard Extension, and there's no distinct matches to "house" when searching the Harvard Extension website...

Moving to post-bacc forum.

 

[chartero]

Ismet is correct. The Harvard houses are residential dorms for sophomore and above students at Harvard College, the traditional undergraduate school. HES students have no involvement in the house system. (Dudley House is a non-residential house that provides social and administrative support to off-campus Harvard College students and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Law School students, but again not to HES students.)
Harvard College: House system (Wikipedia)

 

[chartero]

Also:

Relevant because Harvard Extension is a common place to do pre-med work and to get degrees relevant to being pre-med.

On the second clause, relatively few Harvard Extension premed students get degrees in the process. Most are "postbacs" who've completed bachelor's degrees elsewhere. HES offers an undergraduate degree, the Bachelor of Liberal Arts (ALB), but not currently to students who've earned a bachelor's degree elsewhere. Most premeds come to HES for transcripted credit on top of their degree from elsewhere.

Some HES courses can be taken for graduate credit which could go towards a Master of Liberal Arts, but not the main med school prerequisites, and courses taken thus wouldn't count toward undergraduate GPAs.