<p>Great ideas. We're going to try and get them out before the early notification date so that it is clear that the thank you is for their efforts and not because of any acceptances/denials D may get. Thank you.</p>
<p>I wrote thank-you notes... I didn't give any additional gifts or anything like that, though. Perhaps I should have :P Although my notes were very sincere and thought-out.</p>
<p>In our school a guidance secretary does all the copying and stapling and enveloping; if you have someone like that it might be nice for the senior class to give him/her a group gift.</p>
<p>We gave a small gift certificate and a pack of Glee Gum!</p>
<p>Hm... I haven't given anything yet, but I thought I'd wait until I made a decision on where to go and then give them something from the school (a t-shirt or hat or something) and a nice card. I probably should have given the card earlier (I got my reccs in mid-October) but now I think I'd better wait until April.</p>
<p>I got the female teachers really nice scarves...I am still deciding what to get my tennis coach and guidance counselor.</p>
<p>No, it's better to give the handwritten thank-you note as soon as possible after they've written your recommendations. Don't wait until spring. Give them the note now, and then in the spring, let them know where you've decided to go. A small gift reflecting the college you've chosen is optional. The thank-you notes-- given shortly after they do your reccs -- are not.</p>
<p>^ Would you suggest giving them a thank you note personally or some other way?</p>
<p>Thanks Northstarmom! The teachers who wrote my rec letters said they wanted to know where I would be attending, what item from the school would you recommend? (Hat/T-shirt/ ect.?)</p>
<p>I think that a coffee mug with the school logo would be a nice gift. It's something the teacher could use every day, and you don't have to worry about whether it would fit.</p>
<p>what would you suggest for a history teacher and a math teacher?</p>
<p>I am planning to give my recommenders a gift card. What is an appropriate value?</p>
<p>all my recommenders were women so i got them really nice cashmere scarves.</p>
<p>Is it better to give your recommenders a thank you note personally or some other way?</p>
<p>personally...</p>
<p>DS's history teacher really liked the Civil War calendar -- it had CW trivia for each day.
I liked it because it wasn't too expensive. I ordered it from Amazon.</p>
<p>OK, as original poster I thought that I owed it to you all to update you on what we did. D is doing the notes and I picked up gift cards to Barnes & Noble. Hopefully they are being delivered tomorrow.</p>
<p>Geez I feel like a cheapskate. D wrote notes as soon as he was accepted on Thank You cards which had the university's mascot on them. No additional gift. Well, there's always Christmas.</p>
<p>I got my teachers a box of chocolates and personally written thank you cards.</p>
<p>We gave Harry & David fruit. One of her teachers has actually been her teacher for three years and she is very close to him. He is her mentor and drama coach, so we always give him gifts. Same with her counselor. She has really been there for our D, so we didn't think anything of giving her another gift, especially since it was around the holidays and we usually do anyway. But since we were giving to those two, we also felt we needed to give exactly the same thing to her third teacher who she had last year and wrote a ton of recs.</p>