Writing to Profs

[caputmundi]

Where are all the neurotic classicists who I would expect to be venting all of their application anxieties via online forums by now?? I guess I'll get the ball rolling.

I'm interested in hearing what you all think:

Is it tacky or relatively standard to rattle off some of your basic academic stats (GPA, GRE scores, etc.) when contacting professors in prospective departments? Obviously, an email should include more than this (research interests, pertinent questions about the dept., etc.), but I'm wondering if it might also be appropriate to offer this kind of basic info as well. Thoughts?

[Ardea]

Is it tacky or relatively standard to rattle off some of your basic academic stats (GPA, GRE scores, etc.) when contacting professors in prospective departments?

All of that should be on your CV, which should be an attachment to emails.

[LateAntique]

Because I know how wary people are of attachments on emails from people they do not know, I tend to just give some minor facts and figures in my initial email. The first for me is typically a "Do you think I would be a good fit in your program?" email.