How to thank a letter writer

[RunShare]

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Is there a standard protocol? Should you just sent a thank you note? Will they think I'm weird if I deliver cookies?

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[Captain Fantastic]

I gave one of my writers an Alec Baldwin mousepad. Using Alec as an example to illustrate theories was a running joke in his course. He nearly died laughing when he opened the gift. Most of my letter writers just got a sincere thank you letter, though. So, I think you have a lot of latitude depending on the relationships you developed with the writers.

 

[pingouin]

My professors, who I don't know all that well, got really nice thank-you notes. Of my more personal/professional writers, 2 got a free dinner on me and 1 (who did her fellowship in my hometown) got some ice cream that she loves which you can only buy in said town.

 

[2008orbust]

Mine are all golfers, so they received a sleeve of really nice balls and a hand written thank you note.

 

[Pemberley]

Sorry, search function didn't turn up any advice.

Is there a standard protocol? Should you just sent a thank you note? Will they think I'm weird if I deliver cookies?

I baked mine cookies (delivered the day after I found out I'd been accepted). They seemed to go over well.

Edit: and a hand-written thank you note, of course.

 

[tianac2]

I did a summer program at UWash SOM the summer of '06 that required jumping through all sorts of hoops to get into, including LORs, and when I got accepted, I gave each of my letter writers a coffee mug with easter grass and homemade flower shaped cookies-on-a-stick, with a hand-written thank-you note about how great an opportunity this was, and how I couldn't have done it without them. They all absolutely loved them!

 

[jecrunner]

In the past, I have given hand-written thank you notes along with a nice plant or hanging basket....seems to always go over well!

 

[LEdaddy]

How soon should you write the the thank you note? Do you wait until you get in?

 

[medhacker]

Throughtful email

wait until you know the application results.

 

[meowkat444]

as a word of caution--one of my letter writers was very offended that i got him a small ($10) gift. be sure you know them before you give anything.