Alternative pathway. * High school GPA of 2.5, so obviously university was out of the question :) * Enroll into local Junior college * Couldn't balance jr. c

Alternative pathway. * High school GPA of 2.5, so obviously university was out of the question :) * Enroll into local Junior college * Couldn't balance jr. college classes with no car, full time work (+ freelancing when primary job didn't cover rent) -- also didn't make sense to pay for material I already knew, and the CS department wouldn't let me test out [1]. * Already knew programming & CS fundamentals from pure curiosity * Enrolled into Hatchways :) [2] * Now work as full time SWE [1] From my understanding, California actually made required prerequisites illegal (limited to Math and English only), not for bogus CS prerequisites which is a shame. Prerequisites are courses that are required but do not count towards major/degree/program satisfaction. [2] https://www.hatchways.io/ https://www.hatchways.io/