That's my experience with a bootcamp as well. I had the right mindset from attending an engineering school, but no degree / not living in the SF Bay Area / not

That's my experience with a bootcamp as well. I had the right mindset from attending an engineering school, but no degree / not living in the SF Bay Area / not having the structure and organization to put myself out there. The faculty was also concerned about succeeding through the acceptance filters - if they couldn't make less prepared students successful, then expanding in order to accept more students is a really poor choice.