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Also, according to Princeton Review, UMass Amherst students are not very happy there. Take a look at this (just put in anything that looks like an e-mail address; "asaklsdfj@aljksdfls.asd" works). If I were you I'd be leaning towards UC Irvine.

I have heard that the standard of university education is lower in Europe than in the US from friends who have studied abroad (England excluded). I don't know about the Politecnico di Milano specifically, though. In how much detail have you looked at the academics there? That said, living in Italy would be pretty awesome, and Italian is a beautiful language. Plus the food is great.

Irvine is in a nicer part of the world if you ask me. Not sure how much of a factor that is for you.

I got rejected from UMD College Park and got into Stanford (as well as UCSD and UCLA). Also, I suspect UMass Amherst is going to reject me as they haven't responded yet and you'd think they'd want to send out acceptances before people decide to go elsewhere.

Hmm interesting. I got rejected for a MS in CS from UMD weeks ago, and still haven't heard from UMass Amherst.

Thanks! It's 100% now btw, I accepted my offer a couple days ago. See you guys there.

Not sure about studios specifically but I believe all new grad students are guaranteed housing in Weyburn. Sorry if you already knew that.

I just visited UCSD as an accepted CS MS student, and I loved it, I highly recommend it. (Only reason I'm not going there is that I got into Stanford)

Just heard tonight via e-mail, I got in!

Congrats on graduating, your campus is beautiful and it seemed to me like the students at UCSD are very happy there. Honestly I was leaning towards UCSD over UCLA...I say was because I just got accepted to Stanford, which I honestly didn't expect to happen. So thank you very much for the input, and just in case anyone has to make the same decision it might be worth leaving this up, but I personally no longer need advice on this. Edit: And, yes, the "UCLA is nestled between three famously dangerous neighborhoods: Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Brentwood" was sarcastic.

99% I will be starting a computer science Masters at Stanford in September. I just got my acceptance.

I got in! :shock:

Well as my UCLA tour guide put it, UCLA is nestled between three famously dangerous neighborhoods: Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Brentwood. Also, at night it's apparently the most lit campus in the country. Plus, I go to school in DC right now, which is probably more dangerous than UCLA. I'm not worried about safety.

So as a CS MS applicant, with 800Q/720V/5.0 GRE, 3.74 GPA, 3.9+ major GPA. No undergrad research, I expect this is my weak point, though as a Masters applicant I didn't think it would matter too much. So far I've been rejected from MIT, Berkeley, and UMD. MIT I can understand, I haven't been published (lol), and Berkeley is a similar deal...but I'm surprised I didn't get into UMD with those numbers. I'm still waiting to hear from Stanford. Is it unreasonable to think that I have a shot at getting accepted? I have gotten into a couple other pretty decent schools, so if I don't get into Stanford I'm not completely screwed, will just be sad. :-(

Congrats to you guys. If I don't get into Stanford there's a good chance I'll be doing my MS in CS at UCLA (where I have already been accepted). Beautiful campus.

So I'm still waiting to hear from Stanford, but assuming I don't get in my top two choices are UCSD and UCLA. I was kind of leaning towards UCLA before I went to visit, but during my recent trip out to Cali I actually got a really good vibe from UCSD, both the campus and the department. Gonna be a really tough choice. Does anyone have any input?

I applied there as a CS MS student, still haven't heard. Don't think I'll go there over UCLA/UCSD though, where I've already been accepted. I sent them an e-mail a couple weeks ago and they told me to keep checking the web site over "the next weeks".