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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not ashamed to say that I make these kinds of decisions based on prestige … Spelman is a bigger name than Hampton, so that’s what I would advise. I think being in a major city and having the connection to Georgia Tech is also a big factor. The 3/2 program with GT seems like an amazing way to both get the HBCU experience and the big public research university experience.

What does she think about the single-sex aspect? On the one hand that might make Spelman even better since she won’t have to worry about gender discrimination. On the other hand, I wonder if Hampton devotes more resources to CS because it is more traditionally male …[/quote]

I’ve seen a bunch of studies on women in tech and don’t follow them closely because it’s not my field but do tend to note the gist… The gist of one I saw recently was that having women as professors and role models makes a measurable difference for keeping young women in tech. And since the gender balance of tenured professors lags decades behind who’s studying now, many schools still have a very male roster of professors. Might be one thing that Spelman does better?

Since it sounds like both programs are strong choices and you know people with inside info, might be it worth asking about the CS professors and how much the students liked or respected them in general. Professors play such a big part in someone’s academic experience in college. [/quote]

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