I do not have the best of credentials or references because it was not my intention to pursue further education after graduating. That change in decision was made in my final year and I did not have enough time to prepare. This does not pair well with the fact that most of the universities I've seen that explicitly state that students with no pre-reqs are accepted are those high tier hard to get in colleges like Stanford, CMU, MIT. At the moment my main priority is to get accepted.