For graduate schools in general:

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<p>mmm, yeah. I think I will pick that Master's up. My Uncle is the Director of Engineering at Qualcomm here in San Diego and he got both his BS and MS at UCSD in CSE. I think that here on the West Coast, you can't really rise a ladder unless if you start somewhere up high already. </p>

<p>Someone on the first page once said that I should be looking at the program that I want to specialize in. It is difficult to find what is a good school based on their program that I want to specialize in. </p>

<p>Even worse now is that I just found out Carnegie Mellon has a 12 month program (same with berkeley, and stanford, although stanford's isnt really a program. you just take more than is recommended. but their recommended is like 3 classes a quarter). This makes it just like the UCSD program that I'd go into but better. The thing is, do I think it is worth the extra 16 ranks up, to pay 3 times the tuition, spend 1 year away from family and girlfriend (I live in San Diego, as well as go to school here, as well as intern here lol), take the GRE test and be away from the beach? I'm not exactly sure...</p>

<p>The average starting salary from Carnegie was 73k last year with a Standard deviation of 15kish. I don't really have UCSD statistics to compare with.</p>

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<p>Don't worry about the income. you'll break 80k easy with an MSEE on the west coast..</p>

<p>Actually if I had to choose whether to sacrifice UCSD/my girlfriend/family with Stanford/nogirl/nofamily. I'd probably choose the UCSD route, no hesitation. </p>

<p>You are obviously young though and not thinking about marriage or anything serious. Just keep up the grades, and see where your college experiences take you. You lead your own destiny.</p>

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<p>you guys are so cool XD; I swear lol.</p>

<p>Thanks. I am ready for life now! ^__^</p>

<p>I think haha. <3</p>