How to contact a prospective Ph.D. supervisor and ask for an acceptance letter

Aqeel Ahmed
3 min readMar 8, 2024

Crafting an email to a professor to request an acceptance letter is a crucial step in gaining admission to a Ph.D. program, particularly for scholarship positions. Yet, many individuals may be unfamiliar with the proper approach when reaching out to a potential Ph.D. supervisor. Due to their suboptimal structure, numerous email addresses are often dismissed without being thoroughly read. I will demonstrate the correct method for composing such an email.

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Aqeel Ahmed

PhD (DL & IoT Security). My expertise include Signal Processing, ML, DL, and Cybersecurity. Follow me for easy to understand tutorials in these areas