Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!dana@necntc.nec.com From: dana@necntc.nec.com (Dana Albert) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Special programs Message-ID: <11730@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 6 Jul 88 13:47:44 GMT References: <11101@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11165@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11535@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11689@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: NEC Electronics Inc. Natick, MA 01760 Lines: 37 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu I was in the Late Entry Accelerated Program for women at Boston University. The financial aid was pitiful, and resulted in my not finishing the program. That was the main reason people left the program, not failing out, etc. We did have a few women leave due to pregnancy. Those who did leave I heard returned to complete their degrees. The program was difficult - essentially, the first year consisted of undergraduate EE courses taken out of sequence. We competed directly with the undergrads in their classes. If we did not achieve a least a B in each course, we could be summarily removed from the program. The stress was almost unbearable. Most of us were motivated enough by visions of more interesting and high salaried employ that we wanted to complete the program. Unfortunately, the money was not there to support those of us who had left full time jobs to go to school full time. Almost all of us worked 20 hours a week to get money to live on, which affected some of the grades.... The women accepted into the program had at least a 3.0 average in their previous Bachelor's program - and that degree had to be in math or science. Liberal arts majors (not math or sciences) had to prove eligibility by taking some math courses prior to starting the actual program. All of the women I met were of high caliber. I went in 1982 - 1983. In Jan 1983, men were accepted into the program as well. As musch as people might complain about BU, its the only engineering school I know of that has 50% women in its programs - obviously women came not only from the LEAP, but from the regular undergrad program. Just thought I'd share - Dana visions of more interesting and higher salaried employ to