Sending letters to schools

<p>I'm including a cover letter for some supplementing things (like PSAT, writing sample, photographs, middle school grades) and want to include a cover letter but don't know how to address them. Should I put To whom it may concern, or Dear Office of Admission??? Or something else? </p>

<p>Help please!!</p>

<p>anyone?? (10char)</p>

<p>The way i did my letters was write: Dear Sir/Madam, enclosed is…</p>

<p>I’d send it to the AO who interviewed you.</p>

<p>would he be the one organizing my admission material?</p>

<p>That’s probably office staff–but your interviewer is your contact person, and he’d make sure it got into the right place. It’s always best to send things to a specific person, if you’ve got one to send things to. He might just dump it in your file, but he’s more likely to look at it or bring it to the attention of the right person than a generic staff member would be.</p>

<p>Are you aware that grades and test scores should not be sent directly by you?</p>

<p>thanks classicalmama</p>

<p>@creative PSAT scores can be sent from the student, my school also refused to send them, and the boarding schools are ok with it. I also transferred schools last year, so i’m sending in grades from my old school since i couldn’t get in touch with the administration/counselors there.</p>

<p>Hmm…because of the date, I was assuming you were sending this stuff in after the rest of your application was completed. If you’re sending it in with your application to a school with a Feb. deadline. I’d just send a cover sheet, rather than a list, headed “Supplemental Material” and then list the stuff you’re sending in, maybe with a brief explanation/reminder of why you’re sending it and not another agency, when that’s applicable.</p>

<p>My son was a homeschooler, and I had to do something like this because his transcript and school report were generated at home, by me, and were nontraditional–worked out fine.</p>

<p>Yeah, the schools I’m sending the things to have a Feb. deadline. I actually still have the online applications (which includes the essay and the basic information form) to send in, since the form and the essay have to be sent in together. I also started out pretty late in the process, in around early January. </p>

<p>Would I have the “Supplemental Material” below the date and above addressing the AO centered?</p>

<p>Sorry–I’ve confused you. I see two different scenarios here:</p>

<p>1–You’re sending in everything else on-line, but you have some supplemental materials to submit in addition to the regular application (stuff most other candidates won’t be sending): send a cover letter to the AO with whom you interviewed–not subtitles, just a regular letter telling him what you’re submitting and why.</p>

<p>2–You’re sending part of your regular application in by regular mail: just send the other materials in in that packet, covered by a sheet that says Supplemental Materials, centered on the top, then lists what you’re sending–with brief explanations as needed.</p>

<p>Does that make sense?</p>

<p>yup that makes a lot more sense :slight_smile: thanks!!!</p>