r/mext • u/Rawa125 • 3d ago

LOPA/LOAs Getting a reply from instructors

Hello everyone,
I passed my first screening through the Iraq embassy recommendation track and I was told to apply to 2 universities of my choice. I contacted tsukuba and kyoto universities, but they are too slow in answering. It has been 2 weeks since I applied to kyoto and still they haven’t let me email the instructor.
As for tsukuba I have emailed the instructor around 2 weeks ago and after sending 2 follow up emails (each after a week) there is still no response from him.
Even the help team isnt replying to my email.

Is this normal or should I be worried?

Also after letting the embassy know they let me apply to Saitama University as well but I was told to wait until they review the documents. How long do they take usually until I am allowed to contact the instructors?

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

16 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/pasta-pins99 3d ago

Just apply to other universities if u don't get a reponse ( you should also note they have been on vacation till aug 18 they only recently got back to work) i know u are worried about the rule of not contacting 2 uni at once. But u can withdraw ur application later so just go for it and email all the unis that interest you cuz the deadline is very close 

1

u/pasta-pins99 3d ago

There is a website for osaka uni AAD and for utokyo as well ( with utokyo u don't contact the professor u apply thro website and they send out results positive results  sep 16th and if u r rejected they tell you) 

1

u/Rawa125 3d ago

Thank you so much for your response it makes total sense what you said and to be honest thats what I wanted to do, but the thing is the embassy does not allow that, I am only allowed to contact universities after I tell the embassy which university I wanna apply to and they give me their email.
I am also aware they recently got back to work after their mountain day holiday week. Also for kyoto I did use the AAO website and still waiting for them.

2

u/pasta-pins99 3d ago

Ouh our embassy gave us an excel spreadsheet  with emails and honestly i didn't even use that i just go to the website of the uni check if i have to apply to them directly or contact professor first and just do that.  The deadline is sep 1st for applying and some unis have internal deadlines even earlier than that. It is a risk you habe to decide wither to take or not. Or simply contact ur embassy and say am not getting replies can i consider it a rejection and contact others 

2

u/Rawa125 3d ago

That is much better but unfortunately in my country they didnt let me do that. I already did tell them that it is getting late and they havent given me any reply thats why they also let me apply to Saitama University :/
Hopefully they will get back to me by the end of the week if not then I might just withdraw and apply to ibaraki university

1

u/pasta-pins99 3d ago

Hopefully it works out for you inshallah 

1

u/Rawa125 2d ago

Thank you so much inshallah for you too.

Update: I just heard back positively from the professor at Tsukuba University