U.S. STEM master's,first figure out if it's worth it.
A Decision Brief for software, data, AI, and engineering pros with 2-7 years of experience. Compare cost, career goals, requirements, and OPT risk before you spend time applying.
Start with Google to save your profile, schools, and Decision Brief in one go.
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Decision Brief
3 candidate schools
CMU MSML
Official
Stanford MS CS
Needs check
Berkeley MEng
Needs check
Career / budget / goal
Apply / hold / remove
Tuition / living / ROI
3 tasks this week
More info isn't the problem. Picking which schools to keep is.
You probably already use spreadsheets, Notion, ChatGPT, blogs. The anxiety sticks because cost, career outcomes, requirements, and policy risk never land in one place.
Stuck between rankings and sheets
You've got names on a list. But why apply here? Is the cost worth it? Which ones should you drop? Still fuzzy.
That one hour after work
Working full-time and applying means the big plan doesn't matter as much as what you should finish tonight. Without priorities, the season flies by.
Mixed-source noise
Official pages, forum posts, guesses — they blur together. PassPort shows what's confirmed and what still needs a look.
PassPort starts with whether a program is actually worth applying to.
It won't promise admission. It separates facts, estimates, and open questions so you can make a smarter call.
Start with a decision, not a tracker
Start with your constraints
Career goal, budget, target term, weekly hours — these set the baseline for every school decision.
Compare 3 candidates
Cost, timing, requirements, uncertainty. Then mark each school apply, hold, or remove.
Execute only what stays
The schools you keep flow into this week's tasks, docs, recommenders, and final audit.
MVP scope
Decision Brief MVP comes first
Not a bloated all-in-one. A narrower product that earns trust before asking for more.
Verified STEM Master Brief
Narrow the CS, AI, Data, Engineering master's landscape to a 30-50 wedge. Then separate official sources, reviewed values, and items that need re-checking.
Go / No-Go ROI report
Tuition, living costs, scholarship outlook, OPT, post-grad salary scenarios, exchange-rate risk — rolled into one decision.
Working Professional Plan
For the 1-2 hours you have after work, PassPort shows the three things that actually matter this week.
Evidence-Backed SOP
Not AI writing for you. A workflow that connects your real experience and claims to school-specific evidence.
Expert Review Add-on
For high-stakes calls, you'll be able to attach a clearly scoped one-time expert review.
This is the actual workflow a 6-year engineer used to get into a U.S. AI master's program while squeezing in time after work.
The exact same tool I used is now sitting in your dashboard.
Jay · PassPort Founder
Ex-Hanwha Software Engineer · U.S. MSAI admit
Pricing
Start deciding for free. Go deeper when you need it.
Organize candidate schools on the free plan. Pro keeps your Decision Briefs and execution workflow running.
Basic
Start deciding
Organize a small candidate list
- Candidate board (up to 5 schools)
- Basic cost and test score tracking
- SOP/CV writing with auto-save
- Timeline management
- Inline correction suggestions
- Lab fit score analysis
- Unlimited candidate schools
- AI Mock Interview
Pro
Decision Brief + execution
$15/mo for working applicants who don't want a full agency package
Keep decisions and execution connected
- Unlimited candidate schools
- Basic cost and test score tracking
- Evidence-backed SOP/CV review (10,000 credits/mo)
- Timeline management
- Sentence-level revision suggestions
- School-specific fit evidence
- AI Mock Interview (SOP/CV-based questions)
- Priority email support
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