BenH

Anyone have experiences applying for graduate school after working for a couple of years. Here is my situation, I graduated couple of years ago from a top canadian institution. Unfortunately with a crappy GPA, 2.8, failed 3 classes. There is no excuse, didn't work hard, didn't study, didn't have my priority straight. Graduated with that only because of "natural talent of last minute cramming". I have since been working in the field of my study for the past few years as a researcher and published as co-author on (not first or last, mostly somewhere in the middle of 10 names) 8 peer reviewed papers. I have reached a career block without a higher degree. I would like to get into a masters program (science and engineering related) at the same school or equivalent, I haven't been really in touch with my professors for a while as I was not particularly worth remembering, I'm pretty sure I can get good recommendation from my current PI and colleagues. I don't need any type of funding from the school as I currently have the finances to support myself for 3~4 years (over 200k in savings). Anyone have similar situation can share some experiences. My impression is that my application will be thrown into a garbage can just off the gpa. So they won't even look at my profile beyond that. What can I do to remedy this abysmal transcript?