The only prerequisite that matters (for getting an education)
“All you need is a laptop and a brain”
That’s a very different attitude than saying we only accept a small percentage of the folks who make our impossibly steep cut.
If you're interested in making the team, it might be worth considering if the cohort your applying for cares about your potential moving forward, or if it merely cares about what your current benchmarks mean for their future stats.
"Winning" unfortunately isn't the same as "learning as much as you can."