ATTN: People planning on taking the PSAT.

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Set up a new e-mail address for the sake of containing all the spam from colleges.</p>

<p>When I took the PSAT eleven months ago (which means it's only one month from now, thank you, modular arithmetic), I filled in a bubble that essentially gave consent for colleges to spam me with messages that told me to "consider applying" to them.</p>

<p>My inbox is now filled to the brim with literally hundreds of such messages, and I'm using the word "literally" correctly. It'll take me a while to clear them all (but that's because I'm a bit lazy when it comes to sorting through my e-mail).</p>

<p>So yeah, having one e-mail address for the sake of college admissions is an organizational boon IMO. </p>

<p>P.S: I hate to sound cynical here, but colleges message you with such e-mails not because they actually want you to be a part of the school, but because they want you to at least send them the hefty admissions fee that will undoubtedly come with your application.</p>

<p>P.P.S: I bet some of you have already taken such precautions already. If so, congratulations.</p>

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<p>I didn’t think about this the three times I took it and now my inbox gets around 30 emails a day.</p>

<p>I created a filter so any email with the word college goes to spam. </p>

<p>I have a new email that no one knows about for applications.</p>

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<p>^Good move.</p>

<p>Bump so Saturday takers will see this.</p>

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<p>I gave them my email as a sophomore, but the mail never really helped me, so I didn’t even bother this year. Most of the mail I got was either from God-awful local colleges or colleges that I have no remote chance of getting into.</p>