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You can look at websites like Zillow and search by your maximum per month rental budget, etc. But I always wondered what it is like for people from countries that rarely experience any kind of cold weather moving to places where it can get to be -20F. I'm worried if I end up living there from North Georgia where the temps get into the single digits occasionally, but Bangladesh? Good luck to you .

It has happened at the place I've worked at (one guy lasted less than a week before he disappeared, another pretended to be coding but then left a month later and we found out he was just doing pseudocode so everything had to be redone with a month less time). Also it is likely you work in an at-will state correct? They would do it to you too if they wanted to. Hedge your bets if it makes you more comfortable.

My girlfriend has her BSCS but also has a certificate in psychology she got while doing her BS because she is interested in psychology, so for people like her I could see looking at positions like that.

If this is a school on the top of your list and transferring to PhD while doing your MS is streamlined (some schools it is just a petition signed by you and your adviser. Then it is given to the graduate office and you are converted to a PhD student) I think this is a pretty good offer. If your only path from MS to PhD student at that school is applying for admission again though, waiting for a better offer is prudent (admissions season is much more stressful than I thought it would be, doing this all again is an overwhelming thought). Getting the information on converting is the next, best step. Grats though.

Maybe they wanted 5? One even said "To be frank, I don't believe it lol. Ready for the correction mail haha." He knew...

Pros for LSU: Cajun food is the best food ever. I may be biased but still...

Catria, there is a common saying... "if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life". It isn't just about money making up for suffering in a career you hate. It is losing the satisfaction you would have for being in a career you love. You won't realize all the opportunities to be happy that you lost until it is too late and you are looking back on what could have been. Follow your passion, you'll make do with the money you have.

CS is well paid but as someone in the industry, the money means nothing if you don't enjoy the work.

I'd let the person waiting to get in do the asking as far as status goes. I think receiving an email of "I'd love to attend but my girlfriend needs her acceptance too" would be pretty off putting. I know that it isn't what the content of the email would say but any risk that it would come off that way is too much I'd think.

Looks like Gawker is on the case. But yea I don't think suing your way into the school would give you the best cooperation with school staff once you are in as others have said.

If you would still like to tell them where you have decided to go, you could always wait until you made the final decision. So > Gracefully decline their offer without naming names >> They ask for names > You wait to reply until you have finally decided on your school. Don't feel like you have to respond to their response email immediately, I'm sure they will take your response whenever you decide to give it (I guess they use the knowledge for statistics?).

Going to Stanford does not prevent you from moving to Boston after graduating. Same as going to Harvard does not prevent you from moving to California after graduating. Do more research on individual labs/groups/professors there to see which ones would give you better opportunities to study and research what you want in computational. Not sure what is up with all the recent "Is a #20 ranked school better than a #1 ranked school" threads lately though.

I use to have to deal with people on running trails walking hand-in-hand, taking up the entire space. It was fine though, nostalgic even. I really did miss playing red rover.

All I've gotten from schools (besides automated "we received your app" emails) is one where the graduate school sent out an email to everyone saying to chill out on sending emails asking for status and that the decisions should be in by the end of February (I didn't send any emails asking for my status so it wasn't me bugging them), and another from a school asking me if I wanted to apply to PhD instead of just MS as they cannot offer support to MS students, just PhD students (I'm still unsure if this is good news, despite my original excitement, because there has been no other correspondence on my status since).

Yeah reading the results, so many excited people that are probably about to be so disappointed. It is already a really hard time without technical mistakes adding to it.

Yeah that is a really hard thing to deal with. Is cmu your only application?

seems that way, people are posting updates.

The result search has people saying it is happening now.

When that happened I hope you went into slow motion mode :-).

There are some rejections mixed in with the acceptances for CMU today, if it was a mistake I don't think some people would get rejected and some would be accepted. Also presidents day is not a holiday for most of the US. As much as I would have liked to be on vacation, we weren't.

There are a lot of online rankings of universities by field. Some are US only (like USNews) and some are global (like QS). You could start there to find prospective schools but you will need to do research on the professors and research labs at the universities to see if each university is a good fit for you and what you want to do.

It could be a system hiccup. Try contacting the department to clarify your status.

Only decisions involving giving financial support. Here is the pdf with info Schools can admit you whenever they want

I guess a better question is, if it isn't a useful predictor of success why are universities still using it? Standardized tests seems ingrained in academia. State standardized tests to pass high school, SAT/ACT to get into college, GRE/GMAT to get into Grad school... Why haven't some universities stood up against the status quo and invented a better way to pick the best students?

This is generally how I feel about all interviews. You can always tone it down later once you are in. I mean when I applied to be a software developer I was wearing a suit. I haven't worn a suit since.