[kittkat]

Hi All,

Just thought I would throw in my 2 cents worth (applied to 9 Ph.D programs) to people applying to programs ( somewhat late at this point). I am very surprised that a lot of people have not contacted the professors that they want to work with. All of the professors that I have talked with have said that they are shocked, every year, on the number of people who have applied to their department and have either not listed any potential faculty or have listed faculty but haven't contacted any of them. I wouldn't dream of applying to any schools without contacting faculty. If you don't get a response to an email give them a call [I always followed up an email with a phone call anyway because it is often the case that if they don't recognize your name in an email they will think it is spam and often will delete the email.\

Kat

[08_kudzie]

hey..

I'm majoring in Physics & Applied Math, and will be applying to an Industrial and Financial engineering programs.. My to tier schools are Princeton, Cornell, and Northwestern...
I'm studying for the GRE's right now and the Verbal is killing me...