08-30-2022, 12:27 PM
@bjcheung77 Good guess! Currently living in a beautiful southern island in Brazil (my wife is Brazilian).
The beautiful thing about Silicon Valley is that it’s as close to a meritocracy as you’ll find and - through hard work to account for the unfinished degree - I ended up earning much more than both of my Ivy league graduate brothers. Yes, at this point I can probably afford any education out of pocket, but I’m looking for something that has a good cost/benefit ratio and OSU fits the bill nicely.
Thanks for mentioning those two additional programs. UT-Austin looks great, but I wasn’t able to find the costs for the NYU program.
Your calculations look correct, but you failed to account for the possibility of going UMPI -> Masters directly. The OSU Post-B is more of a fallback in case I get rejected from all programs after UMPI (pretty good chance tbh). Right now I want to be done with Gen Ed as quickly as possible and a self-paced program like UMPI’s seems like a superb choice.
One thing I failed to mention is that I am specialized in a narrow niche in CS where 99% of the roles are filled by top universities grads. I believe I have the technical chops, but the missing academic qualifications are a blow to my confidence; I want to fix that.
It’s great to learn that there are members that were in my shoes not too long ago! With any luck, they will chime in and I’ll be able to learn from them and hopefully follow their successful example.
The beautiful thing about Silicon Valley is that it’s as close to a meritocracy as you’ll find and - through hard work to account for the unfinished degree - I ended up earning much more than both of my Ivy league graduate brothers. Yes, at this point I can probably afford any education out of pocket, but I’m looking for something that has a good cost/benefit ratio and OSU fits the bill nicely.
Thanks for mentioning those two additional programs. UT-Austin looks great, but I wasn’t able to find the costs for the NYU program.
Your calculations look correct, but you failed to account for the possibility of going UMPI -> Masters directly. The OSU Post-B is more of a fallback in case I get rejected from all programs after UMPI (pretty good chance tbh). Right now I want to be done with Gen Ed as quickly as possible and a self-paced program like UMPI’s seems like a superb choice.
One thing I failed to mention is that I am specialized in a narrow niche in CS where 99% of the roles are filled by top universities grads. I believe I have the technical chops, but the missing academic qualifications are a blow to my confidence; I want to fix that.
It’s great to learn that there are members that were in my shoes not too long ago! With any luck, they will chime in and I’ll be able to learn from them and hopefully follow their successful example.
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