Using College Email or Regular email for applying

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With AAMC, AMCAS, AACOMAS should one use their college or regular email? Also am able to keep their college email even after graduating

 

[Chelsea FC]

use a email that you have no subscriptions on and one that no nobody else knows. Save yourself from a mini heart attack anytime a email comes in worrying about if its a II, acceptance or rejection.

 

[Robin-jay]

use a email that you have no subscriptions on and one that no nobody else knows. Save yourself from a mini heart attack anytime a email comes in worrying about if its a II, acceptance or rejection.

I've become desensitized to bad news from medical schools.

 

[TheBiologist]

With AAMC, AMCAS, AACOMAS should one use their college or regular email? Also am able to keep their college email even after graduating

regular

 

[TelemarketingEnigma]

I highly suggest using your regular email (or an email specifically set up for applying) on a trusted platform. I know of a lot of people who lose access to their school/work email for some reason or another (IT glitch, graduation, leaving a job, etc) and then panic about missing emails from schools. I also know some email providers like hotmail cause problems for a lot of schools.

 

[freedoctor17]

Wow I'm really glad I read this. Never thought of that. I just changed all my accounts to use my regular Gmail that I don't get much emails on.

 

[Gilakend]

I'm going to set up a specific gmail account and then turn notifications on for only that account on my phone.

 

[freedoctor17]

I'm going to set up a specific gmail account and then turn notifications on for only that account on my phone.

Hmmm that's risky. I'd say buy a completely new phone and only have your Gmail on there so it won't notify you about anything except schools responses 😛

 

[Gilakend]

Hmmm that's risky. I'd say buy a completely new phone and only have your Gmail on there so it won't notify you about anything except schools responses 😛

I didn't consider this. Maybe I'll ask my college for an intern to manage said phone.

 

[freedoctor17]

I didn't consider this. Maybe I'll ask my college for an intern to manage said phone.

There you go, now you're thinking!

 

[HomeSkool]

Some schools will let you keep your college e-mail after graduation, others make you set up an alumni account, and some don't provide an e-mail address after graduation. It depends on the institution.

I don't think it matters too much whether you use your regular or college e-mail from an admissions standpoint provided they're both on reliable servers. Do whatever's most convenient and comfortable for you.

Either way, make sure you're using an e-mail address that says, "I'm a respectable pre-professional student." If your e-mail address is [email protected], for example, you may want to set up [email protected]. (I was gonna make the first one @aol.com, but in that case adcoms would probably think you're an AARP member without internet access, and that's a whole other problem.)

 

[Robin-jay]

[email protected]

I call dibs.