<p>Has anyone else gotten a post interview letter from Hotchkiss? I got a letter, as well as two letters talking about the sport I play and the music department. Is this an encouraging sign? And should I email my tour guide and thank her?</p>
<p>Yes, you should email your tour guide and thank her - it’s the polite thing to do!</p>
<p>As for good signs . . . well, look at it this way: They definitely want you to apply and, what the heck, it’s nice to be wanted! Whether or not they’ll end up admitting you is a separate matter altogether. Right now they’re in “sales” mode . . . they are encouraging as many qualified applicants as possible to apply, because they want to have a pool of qualified applicants to choose from the in the spring. But the reality is that, come next spring, the majority of those highly qualified applicants are not going to be offered a spot.</p>
<p>So, enjoy being wanted . . . clearly you’ve done something to merit their attention. But don’t count on anything . . . the boarding school admissions game is never a sure thing.</p>
<p>Thanks! I sent out a handwritten thank-you letter to the interviewer. Also, I emailed the tour guide a thank you email. Btw, you’re extremely right. Oh well, I’m hoping everything goes well!</p>
<p>I also got a letter from my interviewer, saying it was nice to meet me, please keep in touch and so on. Do I respond?</p>
<p>hmm 98beebee do you mean a letter about your interview from the admissions office, as well as letters about your “interests”? :)</p>
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<p>If you haven’t yet sent a handwritten thank you note, this would be the time to do so, and acknowledge the interviewer’s letter to you. If you’ve already sent a handwritten note (or that just isn’t practical for some reason), then respond with an email thanking them for their letter.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that anything you send the interviewer is likely to end up in your admissions file . . . so watch your spelling, grammar, etc. Just because it’s an email does not mean that it can be super casual in style!</p>
<p>Or you can go, “sup yo interview was swag thanks brah,” and stand out among applicants. </p>
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<p>Dodgersmom: so you are suggesting that I send a handwritten note as opposed to an email? And who do I send it to, just too the school or do I need to address it specifically to the interviewer? Because I don’t know how to do that.</p>
<p>EDIT: I just found out today that my english teacher hadn’t sent in my recs yet, and I want to let all the schools know that the recs are on their way, so should I mention this in the letter? Or should I just send an email to the admissions email address?</p>
<p>Updates should be sent via email to the admissions office.</p>
<p>A handwritten thank you note, if you choose to do that, is addressed to the interviewer (by name) at the school admissions office address, if you were interviewed by an admissions officer. If you were interviewed by a teacher, it would be addressed to the teacher, care of the school. If it was an off-campus itnerview and you don’t have the address, just send an email.</p>
<p>And a thank you note is just a thank you note - nothing else. So if you have important information that needs to be conveyed to the admissions office, send it in an email to the admissions office.</p>
<p>A handwritten thank you note is a polite thing to do . . . but it’s not “necessary” from the point of view of the admissions office. (Whether your mother, grandmother or whoever raised you thinks it’s necessary is another question altogether! :D)</p>
<p>Thank you! What if the admissions office doesn’t have a specific address? Do I just send it to the school?</p>
<p>Almost all the admissions offices give you their address on their “how to apply” page . . . but if it’s not there, just send it to the school address. It should be the same.</p>
<p>Well, you are wanted more than we are, we just received a hand written card at Christmas wishing our D well with her extra-curricular’s and they were looking forward to receiving her complete application… There have only been two schools that have had the different departments emailing our D to discuss her interests and hoping they see her on campus in September… now we are hopeful they mean it…</p>
<p>As an applicant, I always sent a handwritten card to my interviewer thanking him/her for his/her time. That’s the polite thing to do.</p>
<p>Now, for tour guides, I am a tour guide, and I appreciate it when you send me just a thank you email. It’s proper etiquette. Honestly, I’m busy enough, and giving a tour (which for me takes around an hour) is using up even more time. </p>
<p>My advice is: send an email to your tour guide and send a handwritten note to your interviewer :)</p>
<p>I’m also going to encourage hand-written thank you notes. At our school a copy of the note does go in the admissions file.</p>
<p>When you get a letter from a coach/activity director, it’s usually because you identified an interest in your application or interview. Admissions compiles lists of students with specific interests, then hands the list to the appropriate coach/director/teacher and asks us to write to each kid on the list. By each name there is maybe one phrase: “likes Science!” or the slightly more useful “participated in Science Olympiad for 3 years. Charming, great kid.” We are told specifically not to make any promises, and I’ve also occasionally been told by admissions people that there are students on my list who do not have a strong chance of getting in. At my school, those letters are only supposed to be informative, and to open the door in case the student has further questions. Dodgersmom is absolutely right when she identifies it as “sales mode” from the school. However, I always make a point of identifying the kids who write back to me when amissions later asks me to fill out the form discussing each student’s likely impact on my program. So even though it’s basically a form letter the coach sent you, writing back can help–especially at smaller schools. (Again, I can only speak for how it works at my school which is under 500 kids and not one of the 15 most discussed schools on this board.)</p>
<p>I’m writing my thank you cards right now but am not sure what to say. Any advice?</p>
<p>@shinelikemystar: If you are talking about the interviewer (which i think you are) you could say something along the lines of “I really appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule to interview me. I enjoyed talking with you and will keep you posted on the decision.” You don’t have to say that last part but my interviewers wanted to know</p>
<p>I already sent them last night but thanks! I hope they don’t compare with each other cause they were pretty similar :p</p>