國家部分，因為從⼩的美國夢以及一覽電影文化的願望，申請時並沒有考慮美國以外的研究所。而我的個性一直都是追求卓越，因此我希望自己可以擠進世界最好的學校和學程，為了提高自己被世界名校錄取的機率，我選擇繼續走材料相關科系的碩士學程的申請，讓大學時所累積的研究經驗可以得到沿用。選擇學校的評估則全都根據 US News 的排名來填寫，最後非常幸運收到的 offer 包含：

Stanford University - MSc. in Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Berkeley (Fung Fellow, with $20,000) - MEng. in Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) - MSc. in Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan (UMich) - MSc. in Materials Science and Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) - MSc. in Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) - MSc. in Materials Science and Engineering
Cornell University - MEng. in Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - MSc. in Materials Science and Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) - MSc. in Materials Science and Engineering