ACCEPTED into Georgia Tech's OMS Cybersecurity!

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Thanks!

Not too sure what made me stand out.

I currently work in the infosec field in a Fortune 30 company within the financial industry and have a few years under my belt. I have a BS in IT Sec (from WGU), as well as an unrelated BA in Psych (TESU).

As part of my WGU degree, I racked up a number of industry certs that I talked about in my application essay (CCNA Security, CCNA, CCENT, Linux+, LPIC-1, Security+, Network+, Project+, A+, & CIW SDA). I also talked about accelerating my first two degrees through competency based education (WGU - 76 cr in just over a yr, and much of my Pysch degree was done at Patten Univ [now JFK Univ] - 27cr in 3mos, then a number of quick ACE credits for TESU).

My early academic performance was poor right after high school and I ended up dropping out after my first couple semesters, but when I got serious and came back I made pretty decent grades (3.6+ GPA even with Fs, Ds, and a chunk of Cs from my first go around).

So it was a lot for them to look at. I think I did a pretty good job on my application essays as well. Despite my numerous typos and half-expressed thoughts in this forum, I can write pretty dang well when i need to.