by Gidan » Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:40 am
6 credits short of finishing it and I got booted from the program for the Indian students that my college catered to. I plan to finish it as soon as I find a place that I will be willing to do doctoral work at.
Pissed me off, 6 of us (the only 6 non indians in the program) got booted to make room for Indian students on a full ride, full housing paid for, cars paid for (BMW's), food paid for and spending $$. All bullshit because IBM wanted them as employees and IBM ran our school.
Talk about BS, any normal student was required to keep a 3.5GPA to be gauranteed a spot in the graduate program, however indian students only were required to keep a 2.5GPA because english wasn't their first language and they couldn't be expected to do as well. This was a Computer Science program mind you. Did they make this offer to other non english as a first language people? nope just the indians.
IMO it really hasn't made a difference not actually having the degree, I dont get hired based on my degree, and I want to keep on with the same people for my PHD that I get my MS from and they dont offer a PHD program anyway. Will probably end up at the UT to finishup my MS and do PHD work, I want to change the focus of it anyway.
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