About the teacher thank you letter...

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>This is in reference to item 8 on the reply form. </p>

<p>Does anybody know what the letter says? The person I have in mind for this is actually a middle school teacher that I've kept in contact with and I'm wondering if the letter contains actual references to high school in it. I'm worried about a template letter seeming insincere since the recipient is not a member of the normally intended audience.</p>

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<p>I don't know - on another note, just to make sure, you only get to name a teacher for a thank-you letter if you decide to go, right?</p>

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<p>I said no (an extremely wrenching one) on the admissions letter, but I named a teacher anyways! I figured the same thing, leeny, but there was nothing that said you had to agree to go to get the letter sent out.</p>

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<p>I don't know the exact text of the letters, but I'm sure somewhere in it will be an explanation that students had to choose ONE teacher of all the excellent ones they have likely had to credit with their intellectual success above all the others, and THAT will be an honor whether the letter is personalized or not. It will obviously and expectedly be a template letter from the college, so minor glitches are unimportant, but the fact that the student personally chose to honor the teacher remains. Don't decide to withhold the designation because you're afraid of a grammatical technicality! It could be written in crayon, and I'm still sure that any teacher I know would be thrilled to receive it. :)</p>

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I said no (an extremely wrenching one) on the admissions letter, but I named a teacher anyways! I figured the same thing, leeny, but there was nothing that said you had to agree to go to get the letter sent out.

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ok, I guess I'll just name a teacher anyway =) And I agree, it was so hard to say no to MIT - I thought the people there were so interesting. I'm still questioning my decision now -_-</p>

<p>And Hamster - the teacher I have in mind is also a middle school teacher (whom I wrote about for almost all my college essays), and I'm sure the letter won't seem out-of-place.</p>