BS for Masters Degree Plan

[bjcheung77]

@senior_dev,  When you reply and make another reply, the system will update the original reply and merge them as one post as if you just did an update...  Portuguese Citizen!  You're in South America now?  You wouldn't happen to be in Brazil would you?  My next door tenant is coming from Brazil and will be here in a month or so!  

Anyways, You have big pockets! You must make good $$ or saved an educational fund over time... I would apply to those Masters on the list, you may want to remove one or two so you can make room for UT-Austin, they're similarly ranked and priced as Georgia Tech.  If you can fork out a tad more and get a scholarship, you can apply to NYU as well.

Before you do, you need to really decide on the route to get to the Masters.  You think the UMPI > OSU > Masters is the fastest route, I think it's costly and slower than my recommendation...  I would skip the AA or upgrading your GPA as that $9K isn't worth the price.  You can take courses towards your goal of bumping the GPA up and getting the prerequisites, I wouldn't take the OSU Post-B courses....

Let's do a quick mock calculation and time estimation:  This is my recommendation...
Your route: UMPI 2 sessions $2800 - 6 months> OSU Post-B $30K - 60 credits in 2 years > Masters
My route: TESU $5K - 6 months > skip OSU Post-B > direct to Masters - 1 or 2 year programs
With the energy, money, time you saved, it would all be put into your Masters and you would be done before you started if you go your route...

The reason this works is because you've got the years of experience, you bring in a full package, you're just trying to get all the requirements completed and bump up the GPA to make a stronger application.  We have members on here that were in your shoes, example, CamJenks finished a TESU BSBA CIS and was able to get into Georgia Tech OMSCS, JSD finished a WGU BSIT and also got into Georgia Tech for OMS Cyber Security.  You need to "package" your application to make sure all requirements are matched if not exceeded...