Does sending thank you letters after interview affect your chances?

[lilyachty]

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Does it look good or desperate?

 

[chm9332]

I think it's polite to do so, but I don't think it has any bearing on your application. I've recently been accepted to a MD school, and I forgot to send thank you letters to my interviewers even though my interviewers gave me his contact card.

 

[I'm On My Way Up]

No

 

[Gurby]

Common wisdom on SDN is that it doesn't matter. Common wisdom on SDN is wrong. Some schools like to hear from applicants and it could potentially make a difference. For your consideration I submit this article written by the associate dean of admissions at Case Western:

http://www.usnews.com/education/blo...ite-a-medical-school-interview-thank-you-note

In our school, we keep all handwritten or emailed thank-you notes in the student’s folder. When it comes time to vote for acceptance or to bring people from the waitlist into the admitted class, I guarantee you that we look at all the correspondence we have received from each applicant being considered.

 

[SydSing]

It's polite. Do it if you genuinely feel like expressing gratitude for their time, which is worth a 'thank you'. I was accepted at a school I wrote letters for and a school I didn't write letters for.

Some schools state that they review them, and that's great but sending one for that purpose alone is not something I recommend.

 

[Goro]

Are you aware that most interviewers report their decision within 30 mins of the end of the interview?

I ignore thank you cards. Perversely, I will respond to a thank you email.

Send them if you're polite and that's the way your parents raised you. But they don't help or hurt you, despite the pre-med delusion that they help.

Does it look good or desperate?