Why won't professors respond to my e-mails?

duncanidaho
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:21:00 +0000

I can think of several possiblities

1) They aren’t receiving them (do you send it “receipt confirmation” or “receipt when read”)
2) They thinks it spam and discarded it or didn’t take time to read it .
3) No idea of how to help you
4) No idea who you are and why you are emailing them – you don’t have a goofy email name instead of something simple and professional like your name?

5) Don’t think it’s an appropriate method to communicate such information and would prefer face to face during office hours?
6) Lazy and don’t care
7) Worst case – they know who you are and are avoiding you.

8) Could be they are responding and some problem on your end is sending the return mail to the spam/trash can.

Go talk to the professors face to face.