# Should You Email a Professor During the Ph.D. Admissions Season?

DevFeed: [Should You Email a Professor During the Ph.D. Admissions Season?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/should-you-email-a-professor-during-the-ph-d-admissions-season-33701.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2016/04/should-you-email-a-professor-during-admissions-season.html>)

Author: Andy Pavlo

Published: 2016-04-22T13:23:04Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/andy-pavlo-carnegie-mellon-university.md>)

Topics: [Computer science](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-science.md>), [email](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/email.md>)

Tags: [academics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/academics.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [computer-science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-science.md>), [email](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/email.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>)

## AI overview

An academic discusses whether prospective Ph.D. applicants should email professors during admissions season. The article argues that such emails increase faculty workload but generally do not improve an applicant's admission chances, although targeted and thoughtful messages may receive a response.

## Source excerpt

Andy discusses whether a prospective Ph.D. applicant should email a faculty member.