Untraditional profile for MS Computer Science - Any chances?

[nakols]

Hi Everyone!

I was wondering if I could get some advice on what tiers of schools I should apply for? I am going to apply for an MS in stats OR CS (Fall 2021).

Demographics: Eastern European

Undergrad: McGill

    Major: Joint Honours Mathematics and Economics

    GPA: 3.72 overall, Math major GPA: 3.73, Econ major GPA: 3.65

    Coursework:

MATH:

Calc 3, Advanced (A,A), Honours Algebra 1, 2, 3, 4 (A,A-,A,B-), Honours Analysis 1,2 (A,A-), Honours ODEs (A),  Honours Probability (A-), Honours Nonlinear Dynamics (A), Honours PDEs (B), Honours Statistics (A-).

ECON:

Honours Econometrics I (A-), Honours Econometrics II (A-) and other Macro/Micro classes

CS:

Only took one Foundation of Programming class but currently I work in data science.

Professional Experience: Working at a top tier consulting firm as an analyst/junior data scientist, mainly doing NLP and participating in building/deploying web apps on Azure/AWS. Doing a lot data cleaning and engineering. This mainly the reason I started considering CS or Applied Computing masters. 

Letters: I can get a very strong letter from a Senior Data Scientist colleague or form a DS Partner in the firm. Unfortunately, I did not do undergrad research but still can get good recommendation letters from my professors.

GRE: Current GRE results V:155 Q:163. Planning to retake it.

I am wondering what tiers of schools would be best to apply for? Which schools should I aim for and which should I keep as a plan B? I am mainly look for schools in the US and UK. Thank you very much for your help!

[janeausten]

Doesn't Toronto have an MS in Stats. You could try that. Oxford had Masters in Scientific Computing (Not sure of they still do). You can also look for something like MSc. in Computational Science in Europe. Should not be too difficult to get in with your background. As for US, Georgia Tech has an MS in Computational Science I think, maybe someone from the US would be able to better guide in this regards. All the best!