Visiting campuses as an international?

Grimdorr
Sun, 03 May 2009 02:00:53 +0000

I’m going to take my GREs this summer, so no. Colleagues of another professor? Not really for this time, so no, plus this would severely limit my choices as I’m also from a a school not within US. What can I put? About three semesters worth of research experience on a single research area and being in dean’s list of my school.

Well, I’m not saying that I’m confident about my chances and have any special pull that would make professors want to meet me, what I’m asking after all is whether I should even bother with attempting to visit as it would be my only chance to realistically do so. I do agree that delaying contact would be for the best, it is the only chance I have since I’m leaving US in a month or so.

If it would really help my chances, I would try my best at reading up on professors before I’d email them. If it’s really only marginal and not that helpful, then I’d just forget about this whole thing altogether. But of course, if no amount of preparation would be sufficient within several weeks or so, then this is just futile.