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Thanks, that's helpful. Did you limit your targets to professors working where you did your undergrad or did you try to cast a wider net? If so, did it work?

• gyardley 16y ago
  No, I targeted professors at the absolute best schools possible, because I was considering a career in academia at the time and you can't get a tenure-track job with a second-tier Ph.D. I got accepted at every school I applied to, but my application itself was pretty strong, so it's hard to say if the outreach 'worked' vs. another aspect of the application.