Thank you notes ?

[LSiliati]

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When thanking someone for writing a letter of rec, is it better to send your thank you note via e-mail or snail mail? I've even heard some ppl think its proper to send an e-mail immediately and then follow up with a USPS thank you note...what do you think?

 

[saki0005]

When thanking someone for writing a letter of rec, is it better to send your thank you note via e-mail or snail mail? I've even heard some ppl think its proper to send an e-mail immediately and then follow up with a USPS thank you note...what do you think?

greeting card snail mail

 

[LionKing]

Definitely a thank you note via snail mail- I actually had one of my LOR writers come back to me and thank me for the thank you card- He claimed he never received a thank you, and was genuinely surprised!

 

[Neuronix]

Snail mail--handwritten and heartfelt. Don't spend alot of time trying to sell yourself to the school.

I almost always receive thank you notes. I juice the system a bit though. Sometimes I give out my e-mail address, and when I do I get e-mails from everyone. Sometimes I don't and I get "thank you now I'll spend the rest of a page telling you about how good I am for your school" form letters about 2 weeks later.

Either way it doesn't matter for your application, but at least if you're going to thank me, show me real thanks and not just that you're doing it to try to get in.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

What would you rather receive, a hand written note or an electronic mailing?
Remember - A thank you note is not a make-it-or-break-it part of your application.

 

[eralza]

I wrote my thank you notes during down time after lunch on the interview day.
Before leaving for the day, I stopped by the admissions office and asked if they would mind putting the letters into the interviewers' mail boxes. They seemed happy to do it; however, they may have ended up in the circular file for all I know.

 

[UseUrHeadFred]

I'm using those cheap, post-card style thank-yous that you can buy by the boxfull. It doesn't change anything, but it's a good thing to do.

 

[Davina3000]

When thanking someone for writing a letter of rec, is it better to send your thank you note via e-mail or snail mail? I've even heard some ppl think its proper to send an e-mail immediately and then follow up with a USPS thank you note...what do you think?

I think the OP is asking what kind of thank you to send to someone who wrote a LOR, not someone who you interviewed with. The same advice holds: write a sincere thank you card and mail it.