Hello everyone. Happy Holidays and congrats everyone who is receiving invitations
i'm applying for the first time and wonder whether I should indicate POI in my essay. I have recently contacted POI and asked about his research. In short, we had quite lengthy conversation. Also I asked whether he recruits new graduate students for Fall 2016, he said that he may take students to his lab after the lab rotations only.
So can you advice me whether I should indicate him in my SOP? I mean applications are reviewed by other committee members as well, so I'm afraid it could negatively affect my application (they may ask something like: "why doesn't she want to work with me?" or something like this)
thanks in advance.