<p>This is my first time posting. We just got back recently from touring two college campuses. We have visited three others while on a visit with a relative. </p>
<p>In our mailbox was a hand written thank you note from our tour guide. I have to say I was impressed. She even asked my son how my foot was (I had broken my foot just prior to this trip) so she obviously remembered who we were.</p>
<p>When we visited with my sons last year we got two letters from the tour guides. Both letters were from Larger state universities and not the small LACs. LOL</p>
<p>Yes both were personal and reflected a comment or an experience that showed they remembered who they were writing to. It was kind of cool.</p>
<p>Grinnell, we believe, sends out one tour guide per family and yes, my son got a personal postcard from him.</p>
<p>We found the opposite to be true; letters/notes were from small LAC's, esp ones that were not top tier, but top regional LAC's that would offer good merit money and perks for D, etc.</p>
<p>We got one from UNiversity of South Carolina and I think maybe Elon ( my memory fades....)</p>
<p>We never got any letters. I don't believe the tour guides ever knew our names and addresses.</p>
<p>Son received hand-written note from our tour guide at High Point University.</p>
<p>S received one from Marquette.</p>
<p>Willamette and Cal State Monterey Bay both sent Thank Yous.</p>
<p>Yes, we did--from the most boring tour guide of all our college tours!</p>
<p>geezer, did she/he thank you for not jetting out on the tour? ;)</p>
<p>Yes, Luther College in Iowa.</p>
<p>historymom, we wondered whether she wrote the note to compensate for her tour guide style! I loved our college tours and actually learned quite a bit from them, but it's important to keep this mantra in your head: It's all about marketing.</p>
<p>USC's guides send a handwritten note. I'm assuming it's a requirement of the job because everyone gets one. Classy touch, though.</p>
<p>S received a handwritten postcard from our tour guide at the University of Kansas.</p>
<p>We got 2, I think.</p>
<p>WPI sent us a postcard afterwards. The school didn't have a super-welcoming environment, though, when we were there.</p>
<p>My son received one from the University of Delaware.</p>
<p>D received one from WashU - he even remember her specific h.s. sport and commented on it!</p>
<p>DD2 received a thank you note from the GC at Knox college. It turns out she was the tour guide for DD1 two years prior at Oberlin and both DD2 and DW remembered her. :)</p>
<p>S received several from Northwestern.</p>