CS at a LAC or Women's College

PengsPhils
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 23:16:23 +0000

Harvey Mudd and CMU would be two obvious candidates, but are also incredibly hard to get into.

I’m not sure that LAC’s will necessarily offer less of what your daughter is trying to avoid. It’s certainly department specific, but I think any school that isn’t specifically tech or STEM-focused could offer a CS program that is sufficient in environment for your daughter. Check departments for women’s initiatives and results, and for posted gender ratios as well.

To my horror she will graduate from a solid charter HS without a single tech class.

This is 100% fine and usual - you don’t need any prior experience to be incredibly successful in CS. There’s an argument that math success could be more important in high school for prospective CS students even.