Visiting campuses as an international?

RacinReaver
Fri, 01 May 2009 13:23:38 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with e-mailing a number of different professors at the same university. If you were to get in and visit as a prospective you’d be expected to meet with at least a handful anyway. You should also concentrate on schools where there’s more than one faculty member you’re interested in working for. Keep in mind the possibility that your #1 choice might not be accepting students that year, might not get tenure, might leave the university, might get hit by a bus, etc.

Also, be sure to use the right pronouns when e-mailing professors. I used to work for one that constantly got e-mails from prospective students that were obviously form letters since they’d refer to her as a man. Not only did it make her not want to meet with them, but on years she was part of the admissions committee I imagine you’d also be at a significant disadvantage.