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school email needed?

Started by ac47
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Do I need a school email address to receive replies from med schools during the application process? I was told that free accounts, such as yahoo, hotmail, and aol are not allowed to be used due to security reasons. Any truth to this?

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ac
 
not true.......

if that were true, how would anyone ever be admitted to medical school after they had graduated???!!!

remember, not everything you hear is true 😉
 
Definately not true. A school email address is not something med schools can ask you to have. I had an AOL email address and had no problems receiving any emails.