Pre-Application Visits

[Lexie16]

I will be visiting four of my graduate school choices in the next few weeks. I will be meeting with multiple potential advisors, and I read advice from someone somewhere that they left a summary page about their interests with the faculty member after each meeting. I think this is a great idea. However, I also think it is a good idea to do a summary thank-you email a week or so after your visit. While the summary sheet might have more information about yourself, the professor may not read it, misplace it, etc. The email will be sent when they (hopefully) still remember me, and it will come closer to the deadline, but won't include as much information.

Which of these options do you think is better? And if you do recommend the summary sheet, what are points of information you think are most important to include?

[Lexie16]

Update: my trip is completed, and went really well. I decided to go with paper copies of my CV that they could choose to keep, and then a short thank you email a few days after the meeting.