Harvard GSE Reputation On Campus?
I got accepted to the Harvard Graduate School of Education and am beyond happy and grateful that I have the opportunity to attend in the fall. My only question about this department at Harvard is that I am hearing on Reddit forums that HGSE apparently has a bad rep for being a high acceptance rate "cash cow" for the university. US News is reporting a 40% admit rate but that does not seem accurate because Harvard does not publish how many HGSE applications they get and so I don't know where US News is getting that information from.
I will be honest, I am kind of getting imposter syndrome because apparently HGSE is not as competitive or "prestigious" as Harvard Law, Kennedy, or even the Divinity school now. I heard the Divinity School used to have a 50% admit rate until the acceptance rates dropped significantly.
So is HGSE actually respected by the students and faculty at Harvard and is it actually respected like the rest of the schools or is it seen to be some sort of school that isn't as prestigious as the rest of Harvard.
PS: Please don't comment saying "don't just do it for the Harvard name", I have heard it so many times at this point and it won't change my mind. Literally everybody who goes to Harvard goes for the Harvard name.