20 Apr 2020

George Washington (GW)

Data Science, Masters (F20)

Accepted via E-mail on 16 Mar 2020

Note

Undergraduate GPA is cumulative. After failing my first year of undergrad, I took some time off of school, then went back to school online at a for-profit uni and got a 3.91 in Environmental Science (I also took Calc III, Linear Algebra, Statistics, and 4 Programming classes withs A's in all). After getting really into machine learning and data on my own, I was pretty dejected when I looked on here and saw the stats of everyone getting in were far better than mine. but I applied anyways after I got a good GRE score and I had internship on an ML Team (my supervisor wrote me a great LOR). I ended up getting into the DS programs for all the D.C. area schools. I hope this inspires people with less-than-stellar records to not give up and seek out the programs you desire.

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