Email Template To Contact Current Students in Universities

I was chatting with a student who was trying to find minimum GRE Score required for admission to M.S. in Material Science from University of Virginia. I searched around to see if the department have listed the minimum GRE score graduate admission to Material Science Masters program. But, thy haven’t specified.  Here a way I uses to find the admission requirements.

This method is very simple and effective to find information about schools, department, funding, professors and so on.

Step 1

Search within Department website about Graduate School Admission Requirements. If No minimum GRE scores required is specified, then next step.

Example – Masters in Material Science and Engineering – Graduate Admission

Step 2

Look if Department has link to Students Profile.

Example – Students studying M.S. Material Science

Usually students profile links will be posted under People Section.

Step 3

Send email to them requesting help. Use the following email template

Dear Name,

I’m Raghu, planning to apply for M.S. in Material Science program at your school. I found your email id under students page in the University of Virginia’s department website. I would really appreciate if you help me  by providing some information about Material Science program in your school. My profile is GRE Score – 1100, TOEFL 94, Academic percentage – 60%, 2 paper presentations. I’m in final year from Mumbai University.

I would like to know

1. What is the minimum GRE Score required for admission?
2. Do students get admission with funding, if not how does funding scenario look?
3. What is the cost of living for students from India ( your country)
4. How about part time jobs availability

So, the above email will help you get started. Some students will reply and you can ask more questions about internship, job search in later email. If you send them a lengthy email in your first email, it might turn them off to reply with lengthy response. So, make it short and easier on the person responding to you.

Change the email according to your academic details. I have to say this. Some students might just copy and paste the above email ( unless their name and profile are the same, which I doubt)

This method always works because they should have gone through the same stage when applying for college admisison. Use the same email template to as many students as possible to different universities.

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