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The biggest thing that hasn't been discussed yet is that the admissions counselors and marketing seems to be entirely run by 2U. Not saying this is not a good
by newppc 12y ago
The biggest thing that hasn't been discussed yet is that the admissions counselors and marketing seems to be entirely run by 2U.
Not saying this is not a good company or that online education is not good - just that 2U is representing themselves as part of Berkeley Admissions.
Check this - http://2u.com/partners/berkeley/ http://2u.com/partners/berkeley/
Was contacted by this person when I wanted to learn more about the program, who's email signature looked like this:
Peter Wahlberg
Admissions Counselor
datascience@berkeley Admissions Office
UC Berkeley School of Information
pwahlberg@datascience.berkeley.edu
datascience.berkeley.edu
But he also works for 2U - maybe only for 2U - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-wahlberg/67/800/27b http://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-wahlberg/67/800/27b
Again this admissions counselor and the company are innovating in the education space which is a good thing, but I do find it odd to misrepresent 2U employees as Berkeley admissions counselors - especially when I talked to him on the phone and he defended the $60k price tag by saying an MBA is $80k.