Changing Email Address on ERAS

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I am thinking about changing my email address on ERAS. Currently I have my school email address and I have already received invites (from prelim programs) on it. But the problem is that I am having trouble synching my school email to my phone ( I can do it but for some reason it doesn't work all the time) and also I receive so many random emails on my school email that it makes it impossible to quickly figure out if it is from a program.

The main reason I put my school address is I thought it looks more professional (silly I know) and I did not anticipate all these synching problems. I am thinking about using my gmail account for ERAS.

My question is this: Have people who put gmail on ERAS experienced any episodes of emails going to their spam filter? How can you avoid that?

Thanks 🙂
 
Have people who put gmail on ERAS experienced any episodes of emails going to their spam filter? How can you avoid that?

Initial communication from programs will be made through ERAS, so if you can make sure that the [email protected]er won't go to your spam filter, you should be good...
 
I am thinking about changing my email address on ERAS. Currently I have my school email address and I have already received invites (from prelim programs) on it. But the problem is that I am having trouble synching my school email to my phone ( I can do it but for some reason it doesn't work all the time) and also I receive so many random emails on my school email that it makes it impossible to quickly figure out if it is from a program.

The main reason I put my school address is I thought it looks more professional (silly I know) and I did not anticipate all these synching problems. I am thinking about using my gmail account for ERAS.

My question is this: Have people who put gmail on ERAS experienced any episodes of emails going to their spam filter? How can you avoid that?

Thanks 🙂

I've been using my gmail and haven't had any problems with eras emails or emails from programs going to spam. That being said, I just looked into how to get around the spam filter - looks like if you set a filter with "to: your email address", under actions you can select "never send to spam". That, plus check your spam folder daily (I honestly haven't been doing that), you should be okay.
 
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