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by silvertonia 4633 days ago
It seems a bit odd that they're quoting their Junior class makeup-- makes me think that's the best data point they have, and it exaggerates their success. My understanding is that CS enrollment by gender isn't the issue, it's CS graduation rate.
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In my lay observations most universities have a problem with females transferring out in the first two years. So it can across as impressive to me that they had such an even split in the 3rd year of classes. The program has only been going on for 6 years so I would be surprised if all of the upper level curriculum has even been transferred over flexible homework/project structure described so their is probably still room for improvement by continuing to apply the same strategy to the high level classes.