Dear [Salutation, Last Name],

Stanford, along with 30 other universities and colleges, is surveying
the Class of 1998 about its undergraduate experience and
post-graduation activities.  Your thoughts and opinions will not only
provide Stanford with valuable information about our performance as an
educational institution, but will also enable us to compare our
performance with those of our peer institutions.  So I invite -- and
strongly encourage -- you to participate in the survey.  We would like
the experiences of Stanford alumni to be represented by the collective
survey data.

This research is being conducted by the Consortium on Financing Higher
Education (COFHE), which performs research and policy analysis related
to admissions, financial aid, and academics.  Stephen Minicucci at MIT
is directing the project for COFHE, and can be reached at (617)
253-5030 if  you have any questions.  The coordinator of the survey at
Stanford is Rana Glasgal, and she can be reached at
rglasgal@stanford.edu or (650) 725-1327.  

All responses will be kept strictly confidential.  The survey should
take about 20 minutes to complete.  

Please click here to connect to the survey:   

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(This is a unique URL assigned directly to you for this survey; please
do not share it or forward this email to others.)  

Thank you for your help with this survey.   Your response is truly
important to us.   

John Etchemendy 
Provost, Stanford University