Potential supervisor response

[Neurophilic]

Hi everyone,

I've been speaking with a potential supervisor and in the summer and they asked me to follow-up in the late fall to confirm if they were taking students for Fall 2019. When I followed up to ask they said "yes, go ahead and apply". I'm not really sure how I should interpret this or even how to reply ?. Any ideas? Does this mean they are willing to supervise? Asking for a friend lol..

 

[JoePianist]

I mean, he said yes — it’s not worth reading in to it too much.

[Clinapp2017]

1 hour ago, JoePianist said:

I mean, he said yes — it’s not worth reading in to it too much.

People are super busy. Yes means they have funding. Agree to not read into it too much. 

[t_ruth]

1 hour ago, Clinapp2017 said:

People are super busy. Yes means they have funding. Agree to not read into it too much. 

It doesn't necessarily mean they have funding. It just means they are taking students. The two things aren't always tied.

[t_ruth]

2 hours ago, JoePianist said:

I mean, he said yes — it’s not worth reading in to it too much.

Sigh, assumption of male default

[Neurophilic]

17 hours ago, t_ruth said:

Sigh, assumption of male default

Yep! It’s actually a woman

[Neurophilic]

Thanks everyone.  I guess I shouldn’t read too much into it. I just thought it was quite short. My other POIs had Skype/in person meetings with me so I found it rather strange.