I want to study Bioinformatics at McGill for a Masters or Grad school. I was doing some cheminformatics related work and basically was working along Bio student

I want to study Bioinformatics at McGill for a Masters or Grad school. I was doing some cheminformatics related work and basically was working along Bio students and grad students literally before the pandemic hit. Heck, even Boston University would be a good fit for me because I was helping students at hackathons build their solutions or mentoring them right before the pandemic hit for AstraZenacs challenge, and the team I was helping out created a hardware prototype that would give you your daily meds (great for seniors that forget to take pills or what). But honestly I feel like there is a lot of gatekeeping in this community, I would have to spend approximately 7 years before I could get taken seriously in this domain. In that 7 years you can do a lot of other meaningful work than being stuck in grad school. I dunno.