Saujani: Female and minority computer science majors have a 75% completion rate
Reshma Saujani · Tap into collective genius (with Girls Who Code’s Reshma Saujani) | Masters of Scale · Nov 14, 2023 · at 23:40
Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani explains why the organization expanded into college campuses to address the high attrition rate among female and minority computer science majors.
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“In college, if I declare poli-sci as a major when I start my freshman year, there's a 99% chance that I am going to complete college majoring in political science. But if I declare computer science as a major, I'm a woman, a person of color, there's only a 75% chance that I'm going to complete when I graduate.”
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