2&#x2F;3 weeks and ~5 job applications? I applied to jobs to practice my interviews but ended up getting an offer 2 months before graduating, maybe I got lucky. AngelList worked well for me. Hired should be similar.<p>I graduated from a city college haha, but I built lots of stuffs in college, and did a Summer research program at Stanford and Google Summer of Code the next year,  both involving projects within the same domain, which ended up being my specialization (iOS). If you show experience and an ability to get things done you should be fine! Good luck!<p>edit: I&#x27;m in NYC, maybe that helped too...