i want a job in cryptography research but i cannot get into a 4 year college. however if self-learn math and develop a strong portfolio is it possible to be accepted into a masters program, skipping the bachelors altogether?
Most colleges will absolutely require a bachelor's but there are exceptions.https://mastergradschools.com/master-admissions/can-you-get-a-masters-without-a-bachelors
>>16797991cryptography research is like the hardest thing in the worldonly a handful can semi-understand that stuffif you can actually get on that level, I doubt pieces of paper matter much
>>16797991>i cannot get into a 4 year collegeHow is this fucking possible? You mean you can't get into an Ivy League or you literally can't get into any college? If you can't even get into a state school it's already over for you. No one is gonna hire you with a Master's from DeVry Technical Institute.
>>16797991No, but you could probably work up from a job with a decent portfolio Try working for free when you starts, it’s an offer that’s hard to refuse
>>16797991Yeah if you publish something significant and get to know a professor personally (the secret is it's 90% the professors choice), it's possible
>>16798017Not op but my state school, one if them, was very competitive so much so that even though I scored well enough to get in it was impossible to get into a department because of the high internal competition.I had to drop out and just studied online
>>16798013Why? Crypto is essentially just knowing what modulo math, finite fields, and elliptic curves are. What's so difficult about that
>>16798939there's a lot more math to it than thatand you need to be a master of the math, not just vaguely understand itmistakes are unforgivable it's PvP mode, you are fighting against other humansPvP is always the hardest, if you have ever gamedbut the real issue is that you need to be a master both at math and CSvery few people can master one of these fields in a lifetime, let alone both...
