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From: gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary Newell)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: part-time doctorate search
Message-ID: <27149@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 90 03:29:55 GMT
References: <90304.114119HARM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <90304.114119HARM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, HARM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
> to complete the requirements.  Stanford, Berkeley responses
> are like "I don't think so" or "Send in your application
> and then you'll know."  I have good grades and test scores, but

I doubt that you will find a research I institution that will accept
you under the heading of part-time. Research II universities may however.

> that aren't even definitive.  The requirements descriptions
> appear to allow the student enough room to navigate, but
> if the department has no desire to support such a student,
> the endeavor would be effectively fruitless.  My employer

Exactly - most of these programs are very hung-up on avg. time to graduate and
also on their faculty's supposed waste of resources on such students - you'd
think with 3-6 hour/semester teaching loads they could fit in 15 minutes a week
to handle a part-time student.....

> the bay area send me some information.  I hope that because
> a person has a nice job and family and mortgage that he is
> not automatically black-balled from the acedemics.

Would be nice but don't count on it...... check some 'lesser' institutions 
before you give up hope - they tend to offer an equal or better education and 
are less likely to worry about something like this....


			gln