<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p>I heard from someone (not incredibly reliable though) that it is essential to contact professors in Canada in order to get into grad school. Is it true? if anyone has any experience to share, it would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Contact them about what?</p>
<p>I said in order to get into graduate school in my previous post. When people say contacting the professors for graduate school, I think it generally means getting to know them, trying to find out if they are willing to be your supervisors.</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>Check out a thread called "Advice regarding PhD (biosciences)" posted by bcheese for some previous opinions...</p>
<p>Still a bit vague, but one user did bring this idea up as well, so maybe there is some truth to it.</p>
<p>
[QUOTE]
But remember that that's because in Canada, admission is directly related to the prof, so you can get a good idea of your admission status even before you apply.
[/QUOTE]
</p>
<p>Sorry, I am not personally familiar with Canadian Admissions, maybe others with experience have an idea...</p>
<p>hi helloooo, it highly depends on the program, what you said may be true for less competitive programs, however, for more competitive programs your application is what it counts, a lot of times my PI will get "letter of interest" from potential applicants, but he usually tells them to contact him again once they have been offered a position in the program.</p>
<p>I don't know about in general but I know of at least one school where you cannot be accepted for MASc without financial aid either in the form of a fellowship, TA, or RA so if you don't have a scholarship and the department doesn't think too highly of you, you won't get in unless a prof decides to hire you.</p>
<p>This was the method of how I found my spot in graduate school. After I contacted the Prof., I was asked to review his papers, write a detailed research proposal and jump through some more hoops. </p>
<p>But in general, it does help. It's a different system in Canada (than in the US) as Canadian profs tend to advertise openings in their research group on their websites. If you have anymore questions let me know.</p>