u/HabitBeautiful4055

Say you have a student, applying for PhDs, who has accepted a backup offer while still waiting to hear back from other applications. These applications were submitted before the offer was received, and you agreed to provide references to this student previously. Now it is a while after the backup offer was accepted (perhaps more than a month), do you still write the reference?

I just found an advert for a PhD position in an EU country, but the deadline listed was about a week ago. It doesn't seem like a really structured application process, as it just asks for motivation letter, CV etc. to be emailed to the supervisors and there is not a rigid start date listed.

Do you think it is worth sending an application anyway and how is this likely to be received?