Post Secondary Considerations

Post Secondary Considerations

It is very important to make the right decision when considering what to do after high school as it will affect the rest of your life. I want a career in professional hacking / Security analysing. A Professional hacker is someone who works for an IT firm, cybersecurity companies, and even the government. The function of a professional hacker is to use an array of hostile attacks such as: phishing, keylogging, modification attacks, denial of service attacks, email address hacking, cookie stealing, website hacking, javascripts, and brute force methods to find holes in the security of government and private servers. A professional hacker will then provide solutions on how to protect against similar attacks. In order to achieve this I intend on attending college for a Masters in Computer sciences and programming. This essay is to lay out my plan and back up plan for achieving this.

I will to apply to attend The University of Toronto for my undergraduate studies. The university is one of the best schools in engineering and computer sciences. The University of Toronto is rated 15th in the world in Computer Science. The University of Toronto’s yearly tuition is 52,895 dollars. The

I will apply for my graduate studies at Stanford University. I will apply for the Master's program for Computer Sciences at Stanford. A Master’s degree will take me two years on campus to receive. After spending a few years working in cyber security I would return part time for my Phd. The yearly tuition for Stanford University is 67,291 dollars a year. The average SAT score for a student attending Stanford is 2070-2350; the average ACT is 31-34; the average gpa is 3.9-4.0. Stanford is a prestigious and elite school with an acceptance rate of only 4.8 percent. Due to the fact Stanford is a difficult school to make it into I have a backup plan for my graduate