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tritium:
first a caveat====computing is not my field...i have a phd in history---so it might be in the following that the game for you is different than it was for me...you should do some research into the way admissions work in your field, if you have not already....
that said:
what seems to underpin the intitial post is that you are worried about your undergrad gpa limiting your options for grad school. and it seems to me that you are conceding an important element of the choice process on account of that worry and before you need to.
1. i think was a good idea for you to take a little time off between undergrad and grad school. for lots of reasons. the main one, however, is:
2. having done so gives you the basis for an admissions application essay about your heightened sense of focus that experience has brought you. that essay--the redemption narrative--works really quite well.
because you end up arguing that subsequent experience--which is an extension of the struggle to balance a day job with school as an undergrad--has brought about a shift in your relation to academic work--something about it has made you want to do something more exclusively directed toward a particular academic end. it is this shift that can enable you to argue your way around the gpa.
in the humanities, the application is much more important than gre scores---the application along with recommendation letters from faculty. i do not know anyplace that uses the gre as a significant screening mechanism on its own (lcats and mcats are different beasts, and the way they get used does not generalize).
i might have other bits of information to relay, but i am not sure because i went straight into a phd program so never had to deal with what was entailed in admissions for a terminal masters. for a phd, the process can also be made more personal in that you choose a program to work with particular people, which enables you to contact them informally to let them know about what you are interested in, etc. before hand. dunno if that would obtain for you.
anyway, there we are.
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