Thank you notes post-interview - sent with very poor penmanship

[chitown2012]

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[DK2014]

I'm interviewing for pediatrics residency and have been trying to write handwritten thank you notes to the faculty whom I interviewed with. I have a few questions.

1.) Is it advised to send a thank you note to the PD as well even if you did not interview with them?

2.) I took a photo of one of the thank you notes I sent so I could remember what I wrote for future notes. I realized that my handwriting is terrible. At the time, I just wanted to get the note done. I did not realize how poor my penmanship is. It frankly looks like a kindergartener wrote it, with letters being different sizes. This was to the PD.

Could this prevent me from matching there?

I don't think it would prevent you, but why not just be safe and not send a thank you note? They don't help your ranking whatsoever.

 

[sliceofbread136]

Don’t send em imo

 

[chitown2012]

Don’t send em imo

Thank you. Don't send TY's at all? Why do you say that? All of my advisors have told us to send notes.

 

[sliceofbread136]

Thank you. Don't send TY's at all? Why do you say that? All of my advisors have told us to send notes.

Don’t think they help and they are a whole lot of trouble. Also if a program really puts in the effort to track thank you notes and not sending one hurts you then that was a program that I was not interested in attending

 

[Hemichordate]

Why not just send a typed thank you note?

 

[FrkyBgStok]

When people send me (a resident) a thank you note, I hand it, unopened, to my program coordinator to put in their file (to say they sent thank you notes). It doesn't help at all for ranking and I generally don't care what they say, because I know they are a formality that should go away. If you do want to send a thank you note, do so in whatever the easiest way possible is.

 

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Why not send an email instead of a letter. I'd rather receive that if I were the interviewer.