After PSAT, son received many those emails. Today alone he got over 20 emails plus a couple of calls. Is there a way to stop it? He already applied for college this year and has no need for the emails.
Can’t you unsubscribe from each one? Or respond to each one asking them to take your email address off their list?
For future applicants:
- Don’t check off the box on PSAT forms where it asks if you want your info sent to colleges.
- Create a new, separate email account specifically for the college process.
Good luck! We tried unsuccessfully to stop receiving junk mail. We had boxes of the stuff…and it continued until after both of my kids got undergrad degrees. Really.
Just hit the delete button and count your blessings it’s not paper mail,
At the bottom of each email, there is an unsubscribe link. It will take some time to do it for each college, but is so worth the hassle of not having a crammed inbox.
For what it is worth, last April, my daughter was already admitted into her college of choice (competitive Big 12 Conference school) and already had her room assignment and new student orientation booked. A person with the same name, who had been receiving promotional emails from that college, replied to a solicitation and asked to be removed from the list, that she had accepted elsewhere.
Instead of removing that specific email address from their mass mailings, university un-enrolled my daughter. By the time we found out, three weeks later, due to an email from the bursar office with a receipt for the refund of our housing deposit, her dorm room had already been given away and her spots for NSO and camp were taken.
It took about 24 hours to straiten out, all but the dorm room, which housing lady was not going to displace the new girl without her consent. A call to the Dean of Student affairs got it straitened out promptly and all was complete.
I would expect more from this size university to at least require a university ID number to un-enroll a student instead of just a random email in response to solicitations.
I was unsubscribing from each one. They were coming to my email as we used it for my son’s registrations for tests. EVentually someone here mentioned you could change your preferences on the College Board and ACT sites. Once I opted out on those, the emails drastically slowed down.
For anyone reading this whose kid has not yet registered for SAT/ACT/PSAT or anything college related: have your student create a separate email to be used only for college applications purposes. Then you can walk away from the entire thing at the end of high school.
Another great suggestion I picked up on CC was for the parents to have the password for this account. That way, you can keep an eye out for anything involving a deadline, especially for FA and scholarship issues, as a safety net for your kid.
unsubscribe from each email. After my daughter got into college, she had to do that.