Finding advisors now?

[eco_env]

A certain grad school will accept me if i can find an advisor, but the main person I planned to work with rejected me. I wrote to some other people before and after my interview, but no response. Is it too late now to try to find another advisor? try bugging the others some more? I'm wondering if anyone else had any success looking for an advisor at this point, and if the silence from other POIs means rejection, or just that I need to call them or email them again.

[ringo-ring]

the silence from other POI means they're busy and have too much email in their mailboxes, I guess! in any case, it is better if you send as many emails to as many POI as you can, that will only increase you chances of finding someone who you'd like to work with and who'll take you at the same time. especially, when you have a good excuse - you're looking for an advisor - you'll not appear bugging anyway.

try also sending your email in the morning by university time - when POIs have just came to the office and is checking their mailboxes - that will increase chances your email will get noticed

[NoMoreABD]

In my experience, don't get discouraged by POIs not answering you!

Keep trying. It's not annoying when you have a good reason to contact them, and it's ok to write again if you get no reply. The advice about university time is spot on. Also, send as many as you can. Don't be shy. Just remember you need to make them see how your research interests correspond with yours.

It's never too late, until you get a rejection... The POIs prefer to discuss research than admission procedures, I guess. And they need good students, it's a mutual thing. So as long as you write about the actual work, you have no reason to refrain from keeping on trying.