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From: cy@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Cyrus Foughty)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,soc.college
Subject: Hey, any schools that give credit for experience in the bay area?
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Date: 9 Nov 88 20:26:02 GMT
Organization: Association for the Revival of Electron Tube Computing: ARETC
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	I am looking for a University that will take into account my
	ten years of programming experience and give me credit based upon
	that experience. I live in the San Jose/Cupertino area. I have
	talked to several local unversities and/or colleges and have made
	the request for credit for my experience. One department head
	actually laughed at that thought! I don't understand the thinking
	behind those reactions. I attended one year at an university and
	quit, because I was participating in a small computer company in 
	1977. Business was so good, I couldn't turn down the money! I am
	now moving up in my current company, however, vice presidents must
	have a B.S. in some kind of engineering field. That is the requirement
	and it doesn't matter what I have done for the company in the past,
	those are the rules. Albeit, I am still young (30), I don't understand
	taking classes on what I already know. Is it the educational system
	attacking me for not learning their way in the first place? Frankly,
	I really was bored in school, I was always reading ahead in the books
	and half way thrugh a class I would be finished with the book. So to
	close, I would like to find a school that is not prejudice.
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