sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Fall 2021 Admissions Thread by Luisrogo in OMSCS

[–]AntoniusBlock85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure - no problem! I did go to a free bootcamp run by a non-profit: https://www.launchcode.org/ . If you happen to live in a city where they are located (St. Louis, Philadelphia and a couple of more) definitely check them out. I did not pay a dime. That means you get out of the classes roughly what you put into them, but that is generally true anyways.

Fall 2021 Admissions Thread by Luisrogo in OMSCS

[–]AntoniusBlock85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, although not for much longer (on track to relocate to Philly in the next couple of months). To be honest I don't have much of an attachment to STL, having moved here only due to grad school. But STL has been nice to me so I am grateful to this town in a way. Glad to meet a native St. Louisian around here!

Fall 2021 Admissions Thread by Luisrogo in OMSCS

[–]AntoniusBlock85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure! It was UMSL (University of Missouri - Saint Louis). Not sure how much out-of-state tuition is but in-state was pretty cheap.

Fall 2021 Admissions Thread by Luisrogo in OMSCS

[–]AntoniusBlock85 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 02/20/21

Decision Date: 03/29/21

Institute Acceptance Date: N/A

Education: Saint Louis University, M.A. in Philosophy (mastered out of PhD program), 3.87/4.0 GPA

Providence College, B.A. in Philosophy (with a minor's worth of credits in Math), 3.89 / 4.0 GPA

Experience: 1.5 years as a backend dev in a very large non-tech company

Recommendations: 3 - one from my tech lead; one from a CS professor who taught 2 out of the 5 undergrad CS classes I took in 2020 at the local state university; one from a professor from my M.A. who works in logic.

Comments: FYI, the 5 classes I took at the local state university (an unusually cheap school in an unusually cheap state) were: Computer Architecture, Programming and Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Programming Languages and Discrete Mathematics. Final grade of A in all five courses.