Hi everyone,
Is it best for students to send hand written thank you letters for interviews? My instinct says yes, but I’m an old foggy and I clearly don’t understand these new fangled times. Thanks!
Emails are perfectly acceptable too. My D preferred emails as they got to the interviewers immediately while the interview was (hopefully) fresh in their minds. Handwritten notes are fine as well.
None of my kids wrote thank you notes and they did fine with admissions. I don’t think they are necessary at all but if your kids really want to, they can certainly be by email if that is how they communicated with the interviewer in the first place. NOONE sends hard copy thank you’s anymore- all my favorite stationary stores have closed!
No, honestly. Email is fine. And they don’t need to at all - it won’t help their admissions. A handwritten thank you note to teachers who wrote recs is a nice touch, though.
Thanks everyone!
You should definitely send a thank you. If the interview was set up via email and all contact was electronic, then sending an email would suffice. If the interviewer called to set up the interview, and you have a physical address, then the thank you should be handwritten.
Personally, I don’t trust snail mail to get to a person on campus, and it if does, it can be slooow!
Some students have horrible penmanship. I’d rather receive an email I can read than scribbles I can’t.