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Finally, some schools said they are willing to take me as a MS student. Do you know whether that will help when I apply to a PhD at exactly the same place after that? Thank

Finally, some schools said they are willing to take me as a MS student. Do you know whether that will help when I apply to a PhD at exactly the same place after that? Thanks

After rejected by all the places I applied to, I was admitted into the two years Master of Science in Applied Physics program of some universities. I can afford the tuition fee, and what makes me concerning is the following thing. If I want to continue pursuing a PhD in the exactly same place, will this Master program be helpful? Has anyone tried or heard about this before? Thanks

They seem quite surprised about that... and they don't know any master programs. They will help me with my OPT extension, but I am not sure whether a gap year would be helpful. I apply to in all 13 grad schools. MIT, Harvard, Cornell and Chicago are the top-level-ish. I thought U Colorado, U Arizona and UC Irvine are safe schools, but NO. Maybe there are too many people applying CME or CMT.

I was just rejected by my last hope school, Colorado Boulder. As an international student, I have to apply to something in order to stay in the U.S. after my I20 expiration. My first choice is to apply to an OPT extension and re-apply to grad school next year. The other choice is to find some master programs in physics. Does anyone know some such programs? Here are my grades, GPA 3.89, from a US top 40 school, no high reputation in physics GRE V156/Q170/W4.0 PGRE 990 Thank you very much I really want to continue doing physics...