High school students
Explore labs, mentors, and research areas before you start writing cold emails to faculty.
Field note 01For students / 2026
Find research-fit professors. Write the email. You send it.
Find research-fit professors, write personalized drafts, review them, then send from your own Gmail.
Students have gotten into labs at UChicago, UT Austin, UMich, and SJSU in person.
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Subject
High school student interested in computer vision
I’m a high school student exploring ai & robotics, and your work on computer vision systems that help surgical robots understand and respond to complex operating-room environments. really caught my attention.
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Start with fit
Find the right professor before you write
Reaching out about research works best when the message is grounded in a real connection. Reachly helps you search faculty by university, department, and research topic so every inquiry has a thoughtful reason behind it.
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Find professors whose work connects to your coursework, projects, and long-term interests.
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Keep outreach focused and personal while preparing a clear, respectful inquiry for each professor.
01 / The method
A better first draft starts with research fit.
Personalized drafting assistance without handing over the final word. Reachly helps you move from a promising faculty match to a note that sounds like you.
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Search professors
Filter faculty by university, department, and research interests.
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Create your profile
Add your background, interests, and optional resume.
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Prepare a personalized draft
Reachly generates a separate research inquiry draft for each professor.
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Review and send yourself
Inspect, edit, and explicitly send each message from your connected Gmail.
ReadyYour Gmail. Your messages. Your final decision.Reachly never automatically sends email.
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A sample you would still edit.
Short, specific, and in a student voice. This is a starting point, not something to blast as-is.
Sample draft
Subject
Question about your 2024 rover mapping paper
Hi Dr. Chen,
I read your 2024 paper on rover mapping in dusty terrain. The part about handling sensor drift when the stereo cameras got occluded is what I keep thinking about.
Last semester I built a small ROS stack for a campus robot and hit a similar occlusion problem. If there is any way a student could help with literature review or data labeling this summer, I would like to ask about it.
I can send my resume. Thanks for reading.
Maya
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Built for the messy middle of outreach.
School filter, resume-based drafts, a queue, and a hard stop before anything leaves your inbox.
Note 01
Find professors by school
Filter the catalog by school and topic instead of hunting department pages.
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Drafts from your resume
Your resume and interests go into each draft so it is about your work, not a template dump.
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Queue, you send
Drafts land in Outreach. You review, edit, then send from Gmail.
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Don't email the same person twice
Outreach history keeps you from recontacting someone you already wrote.
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Your template
Keep a structure you like. Swap the details per professor.
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10 drafts per run
Generate a batch, then go through them one by one.
What this is
A drafting tool for students who want to write professors about lab work. You review in Outreach. Nothing sends unless you click send.
What this isn't
Not for sales teams or automated outreach. Reachly never automatically sends.
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Review first
Your inbox stays yours.
Reachly is built to remove repetitive setup, not your judgment. The final message is always yours to edit, keep, or send.
Mark 1
You choose the professor
Search and filter before any message is prepared.
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Reachly prepares the draft
Your profile and their research shape the starting point.
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You decide what leaves
Nothing is sent automatically or hidden from your review.
Questions about finding research opportunities
Clear answers about professor outreach, privacy, and how Reachly keeps students in control.
How do I find professors for research opportunities?
Create a Reachly profile, then filter the faculty catalog by school, department, and research topic. Review the available research context before choosing professors whose work fits your interests.
Does Reachly send emails automatically?
No. Reachly prepares a separate academic inquiry draft for each professor. You review, edit, and explicitly send each message yourself from the connected Gmail account.
Is Reachly free for students?
Yes. The free plan includes 10 personalized academic inquiry drafts each month, with no payment required to start. Paid plans add more monthly capacity when you need it.
Who is Reachly for?
Reachly is for students looking for research opportunities, including high school students exploring labs and college students contacting faculty about research experience, mentorship, or open positions.
Does Reachly read my Gmail inbox?
No. Reachly uses the connected Gmail account only to send a message after you explicitly confirm it. It does not read or scan your existing inbox messages.
What makes a good professor outreach email?
A strong inquiry is specific, concise, and respectful. It explains who you are, why the professor's research fits your interests, what relevant experience you bring, and what you are asking for. Reachly helps you prepare a starting draft, but you remain responsible for reviewing every detail.
Built for thoughtful outreach
Start with one professor worth writing to.
Explore the sample catalog first. When you are ready for real outreach drafts, connect your account and bring your own context.