This topic has been asked in various ways in the past, but I really couldn't find what I was looking for, so my apologies for bringing it up again. Can people tell me the strategy, if any, they used for providing emails to various entities, like the testing companies, CommonApp, Naviance, various universities for their mailing list, regional reps, etc? More specifically:
* Did you use your child's email address for all correspondence, or did you create a new email address for all things 'college'?
* Did you have access to your child's email?
* Did you additionally have a 'junk' email address you could use to sign up for stuff or fill out fake apps :) ?
* If a student uses their personal email to get on a school's email list, does that email need to be the same as the email used by the CommonApp in order to get credit for 'showing interest'?
* Similarly, do schools match only on email address when linking a student who: joined mailing list, toured a school, attending a traveling show, contacted a regional rep, etc. Or, do they use name somehow?
My D is a junior, and not fully engaged in the search yet, but we talk frequently and she is allowing me to do some footwork for her based on a pretty meager list of criteria. She currently has a school email address, as well as her personal (Gmail) address. She has not thought through how best to use them, but has used her personal email when when she signed up for the ACT and SAT. Not sure if this was a good idea or not. Any other tips related to email use would be appreciated.
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