How to short list professors for your PhD/ Master’s?
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1. There are two ways you can short list professors:
- According to the rank and prestige of the university
- According to overlapping interests.
- According to the rank and prestige of the university
- According to overlapping interests.
2. I prefer the second way because when your interests naturally align with that of the prof, it:
- Makes your application (SoP/CV/LoR) more relevant to the program
- Increases your chances of admit
- Decreases chances that you’ll drop out due to misalignment in interests.
- Makes your application (SoP/CV/LoR) more relevant to the program
- Increases your chances of admit
- Decreases chances that you’ll drop out due to misalignment in interests.
3. How do I find professors who match my interests?
- I identify my broader interests such as decision-making, health communication.
- I enter these topics into- Google Scholar- a database of research papers 👇
- I identify my broader interests such as decision-making, health communication.
- I enter these topics into- Google Scholar- a database of research papers 👇
- I see a series of papers
- I organise them according to their recency
- I open the paper to find details about the author.
- I organise them according to their recency
- I open the paper to find details about the author.
4. In the beginning of the paper I see a list of professors and their institutional affiliations.
5. I combine the name of the author with the school they teach in to find their website and email ID
6. Repeat till I have found 15-20 professors.
5. I combine the name of the author with the school they teach in to find their website and email ID
6. Repeat till I have found 15-20 professors.
This is the most methodical, easiest and genuine way of finding labs that you naturally incline towards!
For every research position I have won, it was because of this approach that I followed.
This helped me express genuine interest in the lab because….
For every research position I have won, it was because of this approach that I followed.
This helped me express genuine interest in the lab because….
I emailed them after reading their work.
It gives me the scope to form research directions that relate to their most recent work.
Come on, you can do it too!
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It gives me the scope to form research directions that relate to their most recent work.
Come on, you can do it too!
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