<p>I had my Brown interview today at my interviewer's husband's dental office. She had only called me prior to the meeting to schedule the interview, and I don't have any other form of contact. In this case, is it acceptable if I don't send her a thank you card? Should I send it to the dental office?</p>
<p>Yes, send it to the dental office–Ms. Interviewer, c/o Dr. Dentist, for example. The office can forward it to her, or send it home with her husband.</p>
<p>Fauve is correct.</p>
<p>Sometimes students meet interviewers in coffee shops, and don’t know where the interviewers live or work. In such cases, the thank-you note can be sent via the college’s admissions office: Ms. Jane Doe, Alumn Interviewer (insert city here), X college admissions office, city, state.</p>
<p>I just send an email to thank my interviewer. Is that generally acceptable? Sorry to ask a question on someone else’s post…</p>
<p>An e-mail note is better than nothing, but a handwritten mailed note is the most courteous.</p>
<p>As an alumni interviewer for Princeton, I think that an e-mail thank you is more than acceptable.</p>
<p>As an alumna interviewer, I am most impressed when an applicant sends me a handwritten note of thanks. There are some old fogies like me who do not consider e-mail a proper medium for thank-you notes. If you have a mailing address, why take the risk of offending? Mail a thank-you note.</p>
<p>I receive a thank-you note in the mail from perhaps 20% of my interviewees, an e-mail from maybe 70%, and no thanks at all from about 10%.</p>
<p>When I was an alum interviewer, about one in 10 students bothered to send any thank-you notes. Interestingly, those tended to be students who later were accepted to the college. That’s not because their thank-yous influenced my recommendations, but I think that was because students who tend to be appreciative also probably tend to do in depth other things including their ECs, and also probably have taken the time to be gracious and to get to know teachers and their guidance counselors.</p>
<p>Councilmember, the OP does have an address to which to mail the thank-you note: c/o the dentist’s office. </p>
<p>I agree with Northstarmom that, when there is no known address because, e.g., the interview was at coffee shop, a thank-you note can be mailed to the interviewer c/o the admissions office.</p>
<p>So Browniebaker, as far as email vs. handwritten thank you, are you suggesting students email their younger interviewers and send a handwritten thank you to perhaps the older ones? Some of my interviewers have been very recent graduates of the university (class of 2007 or later) and for them, I almost feel like a handwritten is kind of over the top.</p>
<p>Good manners are never over the top. Even a young interviewer will notice the effort, wording, and promptness of the handwritten thank you. As the younger generations’ ability to write thank yous decline, the TY note becomes even more powerful.</p>
<p>As NSM explained, the handwritten note conveys appreciation and gratitude. The ability to write a decent TY note shows social skills, thoughtfulness, and ability to tackle a task not always deemed pleasant by the inexperienced young correspondant.</p>
<p>There was a link a couple of months ago to a NYT article that had a graphic showing what this college’s “score sheet” looks like. There was a place to note whether the student sent a thank-you note to the interviewer. :)</p>
<p>Collegehappy, I didn’t mean to suggest that handwritten thank-you notes go to older interviewers and e-mail thank-you notes to the younger ones. I think you really cannot go wrong by sending an interviewer a handwritten note of gratitude. No interviewer is going to think that’s over the top. In fact your courtesy would be much appreciated and remembered.</p>
<p>Look at it this way – a hand-written thank-you will make you stand out. Do it.</p>