lowgpabigdreams

Hello, This is my first post on here so be gentle on my poor soul. Long story short, I entered college to major in business and get a minor in mathematics. For context, in high-school I was student body president of a school of 4,000 and had automatic acceptance into my top 50 state school. Not that either of those is impressive, I'm just giving context that I wasn't a complete bum. The summer before I left for college I had some "out of character behavior" as my parents put it. Unfortunately, this was a foreshadowing of what the next four years entailed. By the end of freshman year I was kicked out of my major and forced into a joke of a life science's major, tourism management. College was very rough for me. Somehow, I managed to not fail out while toeing the line for 3 and a half years. At the beginning of the second semester of my senior year, I was hospitalized. I was referred to a therapist and a psychiatrist. They diagnosed me with Bi-polar, which in hindsight, was extremely obvious. I had spent three and a half years having extremely taxing mood swings and unusual behavior. For most of that time I thought I was going insane or becoming schizophrenic. I didn't dare tell a soul or ask for help. If I did, I'd be admitting there was something wrong with me, that I was "crazy," and being mentally ill was too far removed from my self-concept to accept. Eventually it got so bad I was forced to face reality. After my hospitalization, I got on medication and saw a therapist. My life changed within weeks. My mood stabilized and I could function again. I graduated from college with a 2.44 GPA, yikes. Since then, I've become obsessed with overcoming the lost time and meeting my true potential. I learned to program and took up an interest in data science. I enrolled in Harvard Extension School's Master of Liberal Arts in Data Science. The classes are challenging and most of them are the same classes the actual Data Science grad students take. Since undergrad I have completed classes in Data Visualization, Data Mining, Advanced Python Programming for Data Science, Statistics, and Mathematical Modeling at Harvard. I've also completed extra undergrad coursework in Linear Algebra and Vector Calculus from LSU online. For all of these classes I received an A- or better. I also have a GRE score of 169Q and 167V. While I was taking these classes I was working full time as a Marketing Analyst, leading the digital marketing for a small 20 million dollar consumer products business. So to get to my ultimate question. In the context of my Undergrad GPA, and all I've done since, do I have a chance of getting into any of the top Data Science Masters Programs? NYU, Columbia, University of San Francisco, etc.? Thanks for reading, sorry if you were second-hand traumatized. Looking forward to hearing some responses. -LowGPABigDreams