PLEASE Put "Graduate Admissions" in Your Addresses!

[zhukora1]

Hello all,
I just want to remind everybody to please put "Graduate Admissions" or some permutation thereof in the addresses of all the application materials you're sending to your schools

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[eastertheatre]

My schools had exact addresses telling me where to send mine (and they did include "Graduate Admissions!"). Do others not have that?

[zanylikethat]

As another university employee, my wisdom is as such.

Basically all of us do! As to whether or not the applicants bother to read the directions fully/check on the website or in the guidebook or what-have-you... That is another question entirely!

We state in MULTIPLE places on our department website, plus the graduate school admissions website says the same thing several times, that ALL materials go to the graduate admissions office. I have already started receiving materials in my department that have been sent directly to us. We occasionally joke that anyone who can't bother to read the directions correctly should just have their application tossed, but instead I bring everything over to the graduate admissions office with a note that it got sent to the wrong place, please add to file, etc. But, as the OP stated, just because we do it doesn't mean everyone does it.

From a grad program coordinator, I quite sincerely say THANK YOU for finding your addresses. :D

[eastertheatre]

That's what I thought! I figure since I am slaving over making my application materials mind-bogglingly impressive and incredible, I might as well send them to the requested address ;)

[zhukora1]

Seconding what zanylikethat said, and also adding that it's also something that can happen if you don't provide an explicit address to your LOR writers to send their letters to. Some of them might take the time to find out the exact address for Grad Admissions, but a lot of them are busy people and might just use the first address they find, which is more often than not a generic one.

[eastertheatre]

That makes sense -- that is probably one good reason to give them pre-addressed, stamped envelopes.