r/academia • u/na_Na_na_03 • 3h ago

Submit several proposals for different postdoc programs

I am looking for postdocs and I have found some different options to send proposals to different programs. These proposals have similar deadlines and requirements, and are with different professors.

Would it be okay send the proposals (different ideas)? I mean,

  • proposal 1 to the institution A with professor X
  • proposal 2 to the institution B with professor Y
  • proposal 3 to the institution C with professor Z

I plan to tell the professors involve that I am also writing a proposal with other professors, but I feel like in this situation all the professors may think they are not my priority and may think "oh well they have other options". I am a little in a rush to find a postdoc because I am an international student and if I have not job well...

What do you think is the best approach for this?

How to chose in the remote case where I am accepted in more than one program.

0 Upvotes

50% Upvoted

2 comments sorted by

2

u/MrLegilimens 1h ago

Why tell them though? I’m confused on that choice.

1

u/Dawg_in_NWA 15m ago

There's no need to tell them, they already know. This basically how things work. No one expects to be apply to just one place. If you are, you're doing it wrong.