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Thank you guys for the advice and help. I really genuinely did appreciate what they did for me - especially because I really was not close to any of them or anything. I know there are lot of posts saying it's a professor's job and they understand or whatever but to me - they could've said no and the fact is that they didn't. I was pretty nervous when finding out I wasn't accepted - it's quite embarrassing and stressful. But in a way telling them was also like lifting a small weight off my chest and they all replied back saying they will be happy to help again in the future and wished me good luck for now. In case someone else finds this thread - this is the letter I used:

Well... I was rejected to the handful of schools I applied to for graduate school. 2/3 of my letter writers asked that I let them know how it goes. I had already thanked them before for writing my letter but now it's September and I want to write them another letter to thank them again, but notify them I wasn't accepted. I would like to phrase it in a way that I still appreciate their letter and also keep my doors open in case I need to ask again in the future. I have searched online for some examples of a letter like this but I have not found anything and wanted to ask others if you have done this before - what did you write? What did you say in it? Did you use any example letters to start from? Any advice would be welcome! Thank you in advance =)