[lfranchi]

Hacker School is 4 days a week (at least this batch and last batch). You can definitely work part time during HS. I worked during the last batch of hacker school, and as a commenter above says, it's possible to live (he's doing it!) in NYC paying $650/mo in rent.

That doesn't look like an arbitrary social barrier designed to exclude the many to me. MOOCs are still there, and still awesome.

[charlescearl]

It does seem like there are probably lots of formal and informal ways of getting someone there if they've got the potential and desire. That's really good to know!