US Military to Quant Finance Transition (Grad School/General Advice)
Context about myself: BS in Comp Sci from a US Service Academy. Grades were good and conducted some interesting, albeit undergraduate-level cryptography research. Profession unrelated to finance/software engineering (ground combat MOS).
Beginning to wrap up my obligated service commitment (5 years from graduation). I have my tuition covered for grad school. Looking at some of the different MSCS and MFE programs however I'm unsure on how they are for this field. Many of my peers are going the standard MBA to IB route, but I really would like to break into something technical.
I have maintained technical proficiency working on a few side projects and will be taking a Stanford NDO course to further math/cs proficiency.
Any advice for someone looking to break into this field? It seems fascinating from an outsiders perspective, however I feel as if I may have missed the opportune timeline and am a little out of my depth on this.