Timeline for How to contact professors for PhD vacancies?
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| Sep 4, 2012 at 16:29 | comment | added | Legendre | In the UK, we have to come up with a research proposal and find a supervisor willing to supervise before even applying for a PhD. But this isn't the case in the USA. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 16:04 | history | edited | Bravo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2012 at 16:24 | comment | added | Suresh | I cann't stress enough that email bombing a department is COUNTER PRODUCTIVE. So please think carefully before "send[ing] as many emails as you can" | |
| Mar 30, 2012 at 8:19 | comment | added | DavideChicco.it | Very interesting. In Europe we have a centralized admission system, too, but each admitted PhD student can choose his/her supervisor. | |
| Mar 29, 2012 at 21:15 | history | edited | aeismail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2012 at 21:14 | comment | added | aeismail | Your answers are valid for European-style systems in which you apply directly to an individual professor; they don't work so well when you have a "centralized" admissions system, as is more standard in the US and Canada. Also, in many of those schools, students don't choose their professor right away, and I would caution against applying to such departments if there's only one professor you want to work for in that department—it's potentially a big risk you're taking. | |
| Mar 29, 2012 at 17:23 | history | answered | DavideChicco.it | CC BY-SA 3.0 |