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@svent Yeah, I agree. I had to juggle and shop around a lot to get into the CS classes I've taken this year. Not as easy as I thought it would be. For Harvard OS, the lecture videos are all posted online, so you can watch them whenever you have the time. All the slides are posted as well. And yeah, I'm actually taking the Stanford Machine Learning class right now. It's awesome! @shinigamiasuka Thanks for your response! I actually did consider several interdisciplinary options. Cornell has an information science masters that seems promising but I'll need to do some more research on it. Other than that though, there don't seem to be too many options out there :\ @s_rez87 Thanks! I was pretty worried about LORs since I didn't get a chance to connect with CS professors during undergrad. Will try to remedy that this fall!

Thanks for the response! Do you think top-50 CS masters programs might be realistic for someone like me? I'm really enjoying the Harvard Extension classes - so far the ones I've taken (data structure and database systems) have been pretty comprehensive and challenging. It depends on the class, but some are unlimited-enrollment (the ones that are fully online I think) and others are capped at 40 people. I'm pretty sure that OS is capped enrollment, but getting in shouldn't be a problem if you don't wait too long to register. I am actually really interested in machine learning and am taking a Coursera class on it out of interest. I've also really liked my algorithms coursework so I'll try and see if there are any more advanced classes I can do in the fall.

Hi Everyone, I graduated from an Ivy League school last year with a social science major and an economics/language minor. During the fall semester of my senior year I took an intro to CS class on a whim and ended up enjoying it far more than what I majored in - I decided to keep at it and for my last semester of school, I also signed up for discrete math and a more advanced programming class. Since graduating, I got a full-time job in my major and gradually completed several other CS classes - through Harvard Extension and at a local school - in the evening. So far I've completed: Intro to OO Programming I, OO Programming II, Discrete Math, Data Structures, Computer Organization & Assembly Language and Database Systems. This fall I'm planning on completing Operating Systems, Analysis of Algorithms and maybe Software Engineering. I'm also going to take the GRE this fall and would like to apply to masters programs by the end of the year. So far, the CS grades I've received have been 2 As, 2 A-s and 2 B++s. Because of my non-CS background, I'm not sure I'm doing all the right things to get into a good CS masters, nor am I sure what masters programs I'd even be able to reasonably get into. When I was doing my social science undergrad degree, I maintained a 3.7+ gpa, completed several internships and did some interesting research, but now it all seems irrelevant. When it comes to CS, I'll have about 9 classes on my transcript, most of them post-bac, I'm not sure how I'd be able to stack up against applicants that majored in Computer Science and were involved in research/co-ops during undergrad. Is there anything I can do to make myself a stronger candidate? Also, what kind of programs might be worth looking into for someone like me? Thanks!!!