Sample "thank you" letter

[BushBaby]

Where can I get a sample "thank you" letter? Something just basic/generic...I have thank you letters from schools that I interviewed at last year but I can't send them to this one particular school because in the old letter I visited the campus (toured) and I spoke with students. Whereas, I jetted after my interview at this present school and I know my interviewer noticed because she was the one who gave the tour and the group was pretty small..( I am thinking I was the only person in the group..so I am sure she noticed me not being there)...so basically I can't BS about how I loved the campus because my butt didn't really see the campus.

I just want to send her thank you letter that is decent but not too dry.

HALP

 

[Megalofyia]

I'm not sure but I think that the online microsoft word templates have sample thank-yous.

 

[woolie]

Originally posted by BushBaby


... I know my interviewer noticed because she was the one who gave the tour and the group was pretty small..( I am thinking I was the only person in the group..so I am sure she noticed me not being there)...

Girrrrrrl - you are too funny !

I would just try and be honest and straight with her. Thank her for her time and then say something about what you liked, or felt was important about the school or about you as a candidate. Focus on the positive and let the other stuff slide ...

 

[Bridaddy]

Not to be a jerk, but I'd hope as a future doctor, you could handle writing a thank you note without needed advice or a template.

 

[kcrd]

Any good etiquette book will have instructions on how to write a thank you note. Woolie's advice is good, though - you don't really need a template. However, you should not act as though you were at the tour if you think that they noticed your absence.

 

[ATPase]

I would a) thank the interviewer for her time, b) say you enjoyed meeting the students/liked the school/etc. without mentioning your absence on the tour.

 

[BushBaby]

Originally posted by kcrd
Any good etiquette book will have instructions on how to write a thank you note. Woolie's advice is good, though - you don't really need a template. However, you should not act as though you were at the tour if you think that they noticed your absence.

The thing for me is that with all my thank you letters, I wrote about the campus and the students blah blah...but this interview wasn't even at the campus, it was at the local hospital (20mins away) plus I didn't see anything students. The only students I saw were the 3 who showed up for the interview.

I have something written but it just looks so weird and short, unlike my other letters. It looks "wrong" somehow.

I will look up the template and see what they have to offer. I interviewed on friday so I want to send this out ASAP.

 

[BushBaby]

Okay I managed to formulate a decent 4paragraph letter. I simply started with the "thank you" speech...then I drifted unto the fact that unfortunately I couldn't stay for the tour but I didn't need the tour to convince me of the academic excellence and unique cirriculum of the school blah blah...then I spent another paragraph talking a bit about what we discussed during the interview.
Then I had my closing "please take me" last paragraph.

That wasn't SOO bad..😀

 

[Megalofyia]

 

[usmaple]

Originally posted by BushBaby
Okay I managed to formulate a decent 4paragraph letter.

😱

I've never gone over 4 sentences in mine.

 

[BushBaby]

Originally posted by usmaple
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I've never gone over 4 sentences in mine.

See most of my "thank you" letters are about 4 paragraphs...that's why when I first wrote this one and it was only two lonely paragraphs it looked odd.

Now it's 4 paragraphs and I have to move things up a bit just to make sure everything fits on one nice page.