gem fellowship / carnegie mellon / software engineering / graduate school / career change
GEM Fellowship: How I Got a Full Ride to CMU for Software Engineering
Austin Starks explains how he used the GEM Fellowship to attend Carnegie Mellon's master's program in software engineering after earning a biology degree at Cornell. He shows his signed CMU fact sheet and walks through the GEM website, prospect form, university options, and the separate CMU application. Save the walkthrough if you're considering a transition into software engineering.
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0:00Here's how I got a full-ride Scholarship to the best school in the entire world for artificial intelligence and the best school in the entire world for software engineering.
0:08If you're a computer science student struggling to get a big tech job or if you want to transition into software engineering and you don't yet have a software engineering degree like me, stop and save this video.
0:20The cool thing about this degree program in particular is that they literally make you sign a contract saying that you understand the average salary of someone that graduates there is a hundred and sixty thousand dollars. This was a required part entering the program. You had to understand that you're going to make bank after you graduate.
0:40Step one, go to the GEM Fellowship website. Just google it and you'll find it.
0:45Step 2. You click apply.
0:47Step three, you fill in the application and then you choose your schools of where you want to have the scholarship for. And that includes great schools like Columbia, Cornell, and Carnegie Mellon University.
1:00And then apply for those schools too directly on their websites. And that's all you have to do.
1:06Follow for part two where I tell you how do you stand out as an applicant.
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