<p>do you have to do that???</p>
<p>Yes. You should thank them for doing them and in a timely fashion. Some people even give include gift cards in the thank you notes like Starbucks in a small amount (5-10 bucks). It shows them you appreciate their effort on your behalf.</p>
<p>NO! Why would you do that you creep? lol</p>
<p>swiftjab brings up a good point-some schools it is not customary to thank teachers for LORs. Some schools it is not uncommon.</p>
<p>I wrote thank you notes to my teachers who wrote me letters of recommendations. There were definitely kids at my school who didn’t write thank you notes, but I know that I wasn’t the only one who did. I know that if I was writing someone a LOR, I would appreciate a thank you note. It takes a good deal of time and effort to write a letter of recommendation, and it doesn’t take long to write a thank you note. Think about it this way: perhaps your teacher won’t expect a thank you note, and thus not writing one won’t be an issue… but if your teacher does expect a thank you note, not writing one could be an issue… and certainly, even if your teacher doesn’t expect a thank you note, writing one won’t be looked down upon. I don’t think it can hurt at all to write a thank you note and writing one shows that you are polite and respectful and that you appreciate the extra time and effort the teacher is expending to help you out. </p>
<p>It doesn’t have to be a huge deal, though. I simply wrote up note thanking each teacher for taking the time to write my recommendation, and also noting some of my favorite things about the classes I had taken with that teacher, and noting that I appreciated them. I then just handed each teacher my note after class and thanked them and figured they could open the note later.</p>
<p>What if I go thank them in person instead?</p>
<p>I agree with Hopeful_Underdog. Even if your teachers do not expect a thank you note, you should definitely write up at least a small response thanking them for their time. You should obviously thank them in person along with the note.</p>
<p>D not only wrote notes but got them B&N gift cards. The gift may have been more than necessary but the note was certainly appropriate. Your thank you to them will take a lot less time than the time they will have put in writing your recommendation.</p>
<p>What does it take to write a thank-you, 5 minutes? These teachers provided you with something of great value. Have a little class and write the note. Sheesh.</p>
<p>“wiftjab brings up a good point-some schools it is not customary to thank teachers for LORs.”</p>
<p>That’s because some schools have lots of students who lack manners or who are ungrateful.</p>
<p>To write a thoughtful recc letter typically takes an hour. Why wouldn’t a student take 10 minutes to write an appreciative thank-you note. It’s not necessary to give a gift, but certainly it is appropriate to give someone a handwritten note if they take the time to do a favor for you like this.</p>
<p>In addition, it’s appropriate to let your recommenders know what colleges accepted you, and what college you’ve selected to attend. It’s also appropriate to thank the recommenders again for their help assisting you in getting into college.</p>
<p>DDs 1 and 2 brought in TY notes with homemade cookies. If the teachers were nice enough to write recs on their own time (and don’t think they have time to write any number or recommendations during school) it is only fitting to provide a thank you.</p>
<p>D wrote her thank-you’s after she made her decision, on notecards with the school’s seal on them. I’d read somewhere not to inundate teachers with thank-you gift trinkets, but one of the teachers keeps a collection of college penants in his classroom, so D did get him one of those. Erin’sDad: I’d say that homemade cookies never come amiss! :p</p>
<p>^ I like the cookie idea. I agree about the trinket problem which is why we went for the gift cards. </p>
<p>D did do the cookie thank you to a particular alumni interviewer but delivered them on March 30 when it could not be viewed as a bribe or only as a thank you based on March 31 acceptance/denial.</p>
<p>I’m thinking about giving my teachers a thank-you note with a small chocolate box. When and how do you think it’s appropriate to give it?</p>
<p>D came by each of the teacher’s classrooms a few weeks after she finished her recommendation requests (the requests were in two batches - the last of which was mid-November). She obviously thanks them again in person as she handed them the card/gift.</p>
<p>do u give the teacher the letter [or whatever] after u start being accepted? or when u check in with her to see if they sent in the forms yet? or…when? lol.</p>
<p>You give the thank-you letter shortly after the teacher has sent the recommendations. You are showing gratitude for the fact that the teacher did you a favor. After you get accepted, you tell the teacher about your acceptances and verbally thank the teacher again. The teacher cares about your or else wouldn’t have written the recc. Consequently, it is thoughtful to let the teacher know about your acceptances and where you’ll be going to college.</p>
<p>My sister made cookies for the three teachers who had written her recs and gave them something else I can’t remember. She had two of the the teachers for her senior year, so she could easily thank them in person as well. And she did of course make them all aware of her acceptances and final choice. She gave them the presents in December.</p>
<p>A lot of students just give the typical presents- B&N, Starbucks, Panera gift card, some sort of pastry- but depending on the teacher and the student’s relationship with him/her somewhat “quirky” or more personalized gifts can be very nice. I’m trying to pick a nice art book for one of my rec-writers. My chemistry teacher has received shirts with corny chem jokes on them. My human geography teacher got a very nice thank you note accompanied by a pineapple.</p>
<p>It’s always polite to thank someone who has put in effort and their time into doing something for you. Remember they didn’t have to write the letter of recommendation. if you don’t want to write a whole letter and give it to them. just thank them in person or e-mail them</p>
<p>Are you really unwilling to spend 5 minutes max for something that took the teachers perhaps hours to do?</p>
<p>At my school, most of my teachers spend hours on evaluating how the students are.</p>