How are you thanking your recommenders?

[Yogi Bear]

Hi,

I was wondering what you did to thank people who wrote you letters of recommendation?

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[Lavndrrose]

I'm usually close to my recommenders so I'll either bring them or send them a thank you card along with a box of yummy cookies or something. I'm curious as to what everyone else is doing too.

 

[hellokitty]

I sent a thank-you note to professors, whom I was not very close to. I think that if you had a close relationship with that person (like a mentor), then it would be more acceptable to give a present.

Also, I strategicly sent it a month after I asked them as a nice reminder :wink: .

 

[Lavndrrose]

Oh, but they just love it when we suck up to them. <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" />

 

[hellokitty]

Lavndrrose, I editted my post after I read yours. I think I would have given something too if I was close to my recommenders.

 

[Doctora Foxy]

Oh, I never thought of thanking them any formal way, I just sent them a thank you email (which was really a hidden reminder in case they forgot to do it in time). :wink: Today I told a recommender that I got into med school and she hugged me like she was my mother! Maybe I'll get her a little gift. Hm, what do you get for a math professor?

 

[oldman]

i sent thank you cards. i also emailed them when i got accepted.

 

[Jameson]

Diet Coke for the ulitmate Diet Coke fan! I actually brought her a can when I first asked her as well. I also sent one a thank you card.
Jameson

 

[Tweetie_bird]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by Doctora Foxy:
•Oh, I never thought of thanking them any formal way, I just sent them a thank you email (which was really a hidden reminder in case they forgot to do it in time). :wink: Today I told a recommender that I got into med school and she hugged me like she was my mother! Maybe I'll get her a little gift. Hm, what do you get for a math professor?•••••go to the computer store and buy him/her a really cool CD-ROM with 3D grahpics for the office computer. Math profs love that kinda stuff.

 

[XenoXplant]

I think a thoughtful thank you note is sufficient. It's the thought that counts, and if the professor is a science person, they are used to writing rec's.

 

[souljah1]

nice bottle(s) of red wine usually work.

 

[jase133]

I got all my recommenders chocolate and a card.

 

[SMW]

omigod, I never thought of thanking my recommenders, although, I was very good about thanking my interviewers -- a clear case of misguided priorities!! I'll get right on it!!!!