Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:ag5 From: ag5@pucc-k (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: net.cse Subject: Re: College Students Flock to Computer Science Message-ID: <813@pucc-k> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 09:21:03 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-k.813 Posted: Tue Jan 15 09:21:03 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 12:42:50 EST References: <505@houxu.UUCP> Organization: Tower Acres Pleasure Center Lines: 15 <<>> It seems to me that this "flocking to computer science" is highly exaggerated. In this week's Chronicle of Higher Education that publication's annual survey of college freshmen was published. 3.4% of that sample (182,000) stated that Computer Science would be their "probable field of study.." This doesn't seem to be more than I've seen in the past... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry C. Mensch | User Confuser | Purdue University User Services {ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax|purdue|uiucdcs|cbosgd|harpo}!pur-ee!pucc-i!ag5 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ". . . he wasn't festive but was probably ambidextrous"