wendyt@pyrps5 (Wendy Thrash) (08/26/89)
In case the headers are confusing, this is Wendy Thrash posting an announcement from Mary Grigolia, who coordinates Berkeley's Computer Science Reentry Program for women and underrepresented minorities. Please pass Mary's name and number on to anyone you know who might be interested in the program. ==== Mary's message follows: I would like to let you know about the program I coordinate at the University of California, Berkeley -- the Computer Science Reentry Program. We function as a bridge -- a means of going from one academic discipline to another -- for women and underrepresented minorities who want to pursue either a master's or a doctorate in computer science but do not qualify for admission to graduate school in computer science because they lack the required undergraduate classes. Currently, the program is in its sixth year; sixty-eight students have participated, thirty-five students have completed the program, twenty-nine have been admitted to graduate programs. Our graduates have achieved a high rate of acceptance to nationally ranked graduate programs. Nine of our graduates have received their master's degrees; others are completing their doctorates. Our students come from many different academic backgrounds. Many became interested in computer science by working in technical positions in Silicon Valley computer firms. Our program allows them back in to the academic flow of information. The success of the program is due to departmental commitment to affirmative action and to our ability to respond to the needs of individual students. In addition to providing academic counseling for students, we hold weekly support groups and informational seminars, arrange tutoring, organize study groups and preparation sessions for taking the GRE exams and applying to graduate school. Please contact me if you would like more information on the program. I can be reached at (415)642-1390 or via electronic mail. Mary E. Grigolia (grigolia@ernie.berkeley.edu) Coordinator, Computer Science Reentry Program 467 Evans Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720
wendyt@pyrps5 (Wendy Thrash) (08/26/89)
In article <82059@pyramid.pyramid.com> grigolia@ernie.berkeley.edu (Mary Grigolia) writes:
<some information about the UCB CS Reentry Program>
As someone who spent a little time in the program, I'd like to add a comment
or two. I didn't put them in the original article because I didn't want
to step on Mary's message.
The entrance requirements for the program are (approximately) a year of
calculus, a Pascal course, and good grades, recommendations, and (general)
GRE scores. The program is designed to take excellent students with majors
other than CS and give them a chance to pick up the CS courses they need
to get into graduate school.
Students take regular courses at Berkeley and are graded on the same basis
as all other students. Tutoring is available. The program is hard work
(nobody ever believes how hard, until they've been there a while), but
provides an opportunity to take undergraduate courses (and obtain
recommendations) from some very fine computer scientists. (This spring
I was able to take algorithms from Richard Karp, something you can't do
just anywhere.)
Anyway, check it out; it's worth a look.
---
Wendy T. who'll be at University of Washington this fallmarvit@hplred.HP.COM (Peter Marvit) (08/29/89)
[[ Regarding personal empirical observations of Berekeley's CS re-entry
program ]]
> Wendy T. who'll be at University of Washington this fall
Congrats, Wendy! from a fellow elder student who sat in front of you in
Karp's class.
-Peter "Spring '91 ETG, after 13 years!" Marvit
HP Labs