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Ask HN: How to get into a CS masters program without a strong academic record?
I'm curious how folks (specifically self-taught devs) who decided mid-career to get a masters degree in CS have done it, if they didn't have a high college GPA or professors to write rec letters.
- remy_luisant 9y agoProbably a much better question is "why", for which the answer is: "You probably don't want to". If you care about the learning: You can learn all that stuff for yourself. If you care about getting a credential: You are in a field which doesn't care as much about those as other fields do. If you want to teach and need the credential for teaching: Get therapy, teaching is a great way to live and an awful way to earn money.
- PaulHoule 9y agoMost of the time, Masters students pay their own tuition (unlike PhD students) so it is not hard to get into a Master's program in CS -- so long as you are not trying to get into Stanford, CMU, or something like that.