In 2015, there were half-a-million open positions in the software development and engineering fields. Tech companies, in other words, couldn’t hire people fast enough. Yet even with 60,000 Computer Science majors graduating that year in the U.S., they couldn’t meet the high demand.

The disparity between available positions and skilled people who can fill them — compared to broad underemployment across the country — shows there’s incredible opportunity in coding. Bootcamps provide an essential service of bringing talented students into tech.

How big of a difference can attending a top coding bootcamp make? Graduates from top bootcamps earn over six-figure salaries in their first job at companies like Google, Facebook, Uber, and more.

However, getting into a top coding bootcamp like App Academy isn’t easy. App Academy only accepts around 3% of applicants and its grads earn the highest median salaries in the industry. Simply said, it pays to get into a top coding school. That’s why App Academy created a prep program to increase students’ chances of getting into bootcamps that land over $100K in salary.

It’s a Better Value Because It Offers Top-of-the-Line Rigor for the Price

Quartz writer Alice Truong reports that to qualify for acceptance into a bootcamp, schools require 50 to 100 hours of prep work as part of their applications