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From: wendyt@pyrps5 (Wendy Thrash)
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Subject: Re: Berkeley CS Reentry Program
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Date: 25 Aug 89 20:32:07 GMT
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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 fall