<p>Many articles I've read recommend that after a college alumni interview, I should mail out handwritten thank-you notes and I really want to do so. However, how am I supposed to find their address to send the mail to? Should I ask the admission office for the alum's address?
For any alumni interviewers reading, is it weird to receive a card sent to your home?</p>
<p>i suggest you utilize the e-mail instead</p>
<p>A hand-written card is typically appreciated because it shows a social grace and consideration that many people think our generation has ‘forgotten.’ I do hand-written thank you notes for teachers, recommender-writers, interviewers-- anything and everything, and learning how to write a good thank-you letter will take you far. Many internship-guides will also suggest follow-up letters after an interview, and a short note to a professor after the semester is over will be good if you ever need a letter of rec in the future. I also find I enjoy writing thank-you notes (and I can get some really cute cards from etsy)-- I think the personal gesture is a ncie way to appreciate somebody and their time. Remember, alumni interviewers are all volunteers, and they receive nothing for doing the interviews.</p>
<p>However, no, do not ask the alumni office, and do not go into the white pages of a phone book. Most of the interviews I’ve had I’ve had at the office of the interviewer, or I have been able to google their name and the city and get their business address (which is listed prominently on google). A lot of interviewers will give you a business card if you have too many questions. If you cannot find the address, then yes, an email is acceptable. If the address the interviewer gives is a home address, that’s not creepy. But if you find yourself having to make a concerted effort to find the address (or you yourself start feeling like a stalker), you should probably stop.</p>
<p>however the “e-mail” is so much more convenient</p>
<p>but purpleacorn. you’re right. a handwritten one would be more touching.</p>
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<p>Exactly. Which is why it means more when they receive a hand-written one.</p>
<p>not when you would have to call admissions and ask for the interviewer’s address</p>
<p>If you’ll note, I didn’t encourage that, and I’m not sure what you have against handwritten notes. However, multiple interviewers have mentioned on CC that it is a nice gesture in the Ivy forums, and I had an interviewer tell me afterwards how much he was impressed and appreciated it. It’s also been, in my experience, much easier than the OP may be thinking it its. If you don’t think it’s for you, don’t do it. But thank you notes are a part of the way I was raised, and I’ll continue advocating for them.</p>
<p>i would send an email. </p>
<p>purpleacorn was raised off of thank you notebookpapers.</p>
<p>how about sending an email that says “thank you” in it?</p>
<p>Thank you both for your advice! I am planning to do a combo of both. For the interviewers whose addresses I was able to find on Google, I am going to mail a card. For the others I’m just going to send an email.
I really like sending handwritten cards, but one last concern, though… Would an interviewer find it creepy that I found their home address even though they didn’t give it to me? (They were all on the first page of Google)</p>
<p>thats a wonderful idea.</p>
<p>one last idea: how about maybe sending the cards to the admissions office with your interviewer’s name? then they can deliver it to your interviewer?</p>
<p>Admissions offices don’t forward cards to alum interviewers.</p>
<p>The only way someone can get my address would be to google search or otherwise investigate. I communicate via email and text w/the student. THey don’t know my address. Nor would my school give it to them.</p>
<p>THat being said, I wouldn’t freak out if they did punch my name in whitepages.com or something.</p>
<p>But frankly folks: it’s not a big deal. Send thank you notes to people who give you graduation gifts. You don’t need to google my mailing address to send me a note.</p>