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Ask HN: IT Management in SF

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Hello Everyone, Nowadays I have a big life decision to make. I am graduating from my undergraduate Industrial & Systems Engineering degree actually I kind of graduated on January I have only one class left and I have been working as a front-end developer since February anyhow to be honest I was not very good student in first years of school so my GPA is pretty low. I studied no one ever has in my last 2 years but because of GPA calculations it is only up to 2.5 at last. I did everything else I could, TOEFL, GRE, Coursera courses, software projects, programming languages etc... So I applied for 5 schools in California for Master Degrees. 4 of them was Software Eng. and the last one was IT Management in Golden Gate University. I was declined from all of the Software Engineering Universities, and the reason was of course the GPA. Today I got my application denial as SE from the Santa Clara University. And now I only have GGU IT Management Approval, I think the advantages are San Francisco area, Cheaper related to other choices, I think they give Scholarship and I am damn ready to study for it and from what I hear the alumnis are all working big companies in SF even internationals. The disadvantage is you know it is not Software Engineering. I want to hear you HN readers thoughts on this. Should I skip and for half or 1 year for re-application ? But even I skip I cannot increase my GPA because I am graduating. Should I consider other choices ? Other cities maybe Europe ? Should I accept and maybe study to transfer next year to Software Engineering schools? Is it so deadly that I should study MS in Software Engineering ? The thing is I am 25 and live in Turkey. Money is not big problem for me at the moment. But I want to create cool things and contribute! and this is not possible at where I am now. I would like to hear you HN readers thoughts. Thank you everyone...

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