Contact and applications
Check whether this programme asks you to write first, then draft an email that contains only facts you can support.
What you can do next
- Do you have to email a supervisor first? Check the programme rule
Record the contact rule by university, department, degree and year. Unknown stays unknown; it does not become a requirement.
- A first supervisor email: one specific connection, not a template full of praise
Name work you have read, your own contribution and one request. Copying a draft does not mark it as sent.
- Different next steps after silence and after a polite reply
Take the follow-up interval from the programme or from what the person promised. A reply, a discussion and an admission are three different facts.
- Turn coursework and research into a research CV
State your contribution, method and evidence. Do not list an unpublished paper as published, or a helper role as authorship.