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Hi guys, Last year I applied to grad schools in the U.S. and screwed it up. Lately I understood my mistakes, problems. Then I wrote a blog post about what I have done and tried to come up reasons for failing. I hope this post would help you guys and keep you away from failing like me. Link

Hey guys, This week I need to send my decision to Penn State, which is the only offer. This is not about somewhere vs somewhere else, but accept vs reject. Honestly right now I am totally demotivated about pursuing PhD. I think this is due to bunch of rejects I got from all the schools I applied except for Penn State. Plus, I am afraid of screwing things up and disappointing people who trusted me, and I don't want to waste some resource that can be utilized by someone else better. However, I really wanted to pursue masters or PhD in USA for years. As you see it turns into a dilemma for me and I have one week to solve it. Hope you can help. These are some questions I have in my head about the school, city etc. - How is pursuing computer science PhD at Penn State? - Let's say PhD turns out that it is not my thing, then is it easy to switch to masters? - According to offer, the school will pay ~$18,500 from August to May, and prof offers a summer job for $3000. Is this money enough to live in State College? - How is life in State College? If you can answer them or give some advice, I really appreciate it.

UT sent another strange mail below. What does that mean? Is this a reject or there a small chance to get in?

UT's reply

Here is the respond from UCSB

UMich replied my email really fast. Here what is sent

Thanks, man

Hello everyone, I applied a number of schools for PhD, but I haven't heard any word from some of them (UCSB, Ohio State, UMich, UT at Austin, University of Maryland, Columbia[PhD rejected waiting for masters]). What do you think about the chances that I may get admitted to these schools? Should I email and ask them for admission results?

Applied to Computer Architecture PhD. Rejected.