Contacting grad students in your dream lab reveals crucial info for your graduate school applications such as:
★ How to get profs to respond to your cold-email
★ How well suited and well crafted are your CV & SoP
★ Funding opportunities
🧵on finding their contact info👇
★ How to get profs to respond to your cold-email
★ How well suited and well crafted are your CV & SoP
★ Funding opportunities
🧵on finding their contact info👇
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• Visit their lab website
• Tap on the menu tab/scroll the website till the end
• You’ll see existing/current members’/students profiles & contact info.
Example 👇
• Visit their lab website
• Tap on the menu tab/scroll the website till the end
• You’ll see existing/current members’/students profiles & contact info.
Example 👇
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Contact the lab assistant to find info on grad students’ email.
Contact the lab assistant to find info on grad students’ email.
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•Browse the research papers by the authors on Google Scholar
•Arrange them in the order of their recency
•Check out co-authors’ institutional affiliation and designation in the ‘Author information’ section of the paper
•In many cases you’ll find their email there
•Browse the research papers by the authors on Google Scholar
•Arrange them in the order of their recency
•Check out co-authors’ institutional affiliation and designation in the ‘Author information’ section of the paper
•In many cases you’ll find their email there
Many authors provide their @ORCID_Org ID there.
•Check out those IDs to see if the authors are students/alumni from the lab.
•Try contacting the alumni as well (you’ll find their info on lab website) to see what career prospects exist for you after grad school.
•Check out those IDs to see if the authors are students/alumni from the lab.
•Try contacting the alumni as well (you’ll find their info on lab website) to see what career prospects exist for you after grad school.
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Contact the graduate school coordinator of the department (such as Dept of Psychology, Dept of Education etc.) to see if they can help you with the contact info of students from the lab of your interest!
Contact the graduate school coordinator of the department (such as Dept of Psychology, Dept of Education etc.) to see if they can help you with the contact info of students from the lab of your interest!
Not many students leverage golden nuggets of information that existing/alumni students from the lab can provide you.
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