<p>Allright. I applied to 11 schools not inculding my safteys. I have not visited any of these schools, and was wondering how many of these schools I should send an “interest” letter to? If you guys think the school is big on interest, or if it would help put a face on the thousands of other applicantions recieved by these schools… Lets say the interest letter is not detailed enough, would it hurt my chances? </p>
<li>Vanderbilt </li>
<li>Brown - I know interest is big, so should I? (Already interviewed, but brown tries to interview 100 percent of its applicants…)</li>
<li>Boston College- I know interest is big, so should I? I live in a region where not a lot of kids go to BC, so would they be afraid of yield by me? Also my sat scores/gpa are higher than 75 percent of the kids at BC…</li>
<li>Emory-I already sent 1 in, I just reiterated my emory essay which was “why do you want to attend emory” Scored higher than 75 percent of the kids at emory…</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia-Ivys probably don’t care about interest because their yeild rate is low.</li>
<li>UPenn - "</li>
<li>Cornell- "</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Northwestern - I would send 1 in, but its just going to reiterate stuff from my interview and my essay which was “Why do you want to go to northwestern” (Already interviewed)</li>
<li>WashU- Interest is big</li>
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<p>^ All of them...I just want to help my application, because I haven't visited any of these schools and have interviewed with only 2 of them..... Which ones should I send an interest letter to? Should I send a letter that just reiterates an essay "why do you want to go to this school" that was part of the letter, or would that seem to redundant?</p>
<p>I will go to whichever school accepts from this list, if any of them do.....</p>
<p>not all schools like it when you send in unnecessary letters, even if it shows your interest. There's a time and place for it though, usually if you are waitlisted or deferred, but if you're just waiting on a regular decision, it might be risky even to send the a letter.</p>
<p>I absolutely agree with nooob. Colleges don't like when applicants send unnecessary supplementary materials. They already have a lot of material to organize and review. If you're waitlisted then you can send in a letter if you really want to go there. But besides that it's not really appropriate to send a letter.</p>
<p>I don't see why the universities would get mad at the student for sending a interest letter, but it could lead to fussing ( due to many letters) and by mistake if your a competitive candidate ( or had a good chance of acceptance) take it out on your application- it gets rejected.
So yeah, sending letters to a university is risky... perhaps if it was a small college or private university ( small) they may take a better position of it.</p>
<p>Anyone I have known to send an interest letter actually sent them to larger state universities, which seems reasonable since they do not deal with interviews and other additional supplements that emphasize one's interest. These cases have been benifitial. I'm not sure how different it would be in the cases of the other schools you mentioned. I imagine that for many, some of them are top schools for a percentage of applicants. I think it wouldn't be a harmful idea if you introduced something different in the letter or emphasized you interest in a way that would not be perceived as cliche or fluff for your file (which obviously is subjective). But if you are looking at sending a general interest letter, it will likely not be advantageous at all, as others are mentioning.</p>