<p>I'm sure most students who take SAT register themselves at college board. Everyday I have been getting like 10 e-mails(spams)from different colleges. Have you experienced this? I did not find any way to unsubscribe. Why is college board sharing our e-mails with colleges?</p>
<p>I found this on the collegeboard website in the Privacy Policy section:
When you registered for the SAT, was there a question asking your permission to tell colleges “about students like me,” or something similar? That used to be what opened the floodgates for viewbooks, mailings, postcards, applications, etc. It’s easier to hit delete than to keep bringing those out to the recycling bin, and better for the environment, too. But if you don’t want all the college-related email, try following the steps above.</p>
<p>Law requires that you should be able to unsubscribe from unsolicited e-mails. So look closely, especially the fine print at the bottom of e-mails. Collegeboard is a business first and foremost so of course they make the most – legally – of the data they collect. While Collegeboard still meets the definition for a non-profit organization, it doesn’t fit the definition as narrowly as the Red Cross or other non-profits you might think of, in that it generates much larger revenue. It is one of the most profitable “non-profits” in the US.</p>
<p>I’m surprised you can’t find any unsubscribe. I’ve yet to see one that didn’t allow that. Scroll all they way down and it’s in the small print somewhere. It’s no different then when they take the ACT/SAT, etc. Check your settings and stop notifications if you don’t want them. You can also change your email, set up a free yahoo one or something, to use for college mail. It only gets worse :D.</p>
<p>The CAN-SPAM Act REQUIRES that there be an unsubscribe option for any e-mail that is not transactional or is information regarding a relationship as a result of a transaction. It is illegal not to have an unsubscribe option.</p>
<p>Thank you for the replies.
Yes there is unsubscribe option at the end of every e-mail I get from colleges. That’s lot of work. I was hoping there is one place on college board where you can unlist yourself. </p>
<p>This is what it says at the end of every e-mail I receive. </p>
<p><strong><em>I received your contact information from the Student Search Service of the College Board. If you prefer not to be contacted by Tulane University via email again, please let me know.</em></strong>*</p>
<p>Yes, again, once your name is out there it will continue to circulate. As a JOKE in 2006 one of the friend’s of my oldest son asked for college information from someone and used my son’s address, email and the name Burt Reynolds. We’re still getting junk mail and spam addressed to Burt Reynolds. I was out shoveling snow just yesterday and the mailman handed me my mail and said he gets a kick out of the fact that Burt Reynolds lives in our house. My son is now 24. You’ll still need to unsubscribe at the bottom of e-mails now that your name is circulated.</p>
<p>Opt out of college board name circulation here:</p>
<p>[Student</a> Search Service - Opt Out](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>Opt Out of Student Search Service)</p>
<p>It’s just one more reason why I personally believe College Board should be stripped of their non-profit status.</p>
<p>Burt Reynolds, huh? He can probably skip that FAFSA since he’s full pay. But he should be getting the senior discount by now.</p>
<p>ETA: And I’m in total agreement regarding the College Board.</p>
<p>Sometimes you do get some good offers like application fee waivers when application season starts.</p>
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<p>Yep, that will teach those bad guys a lesson! And send a message to the organizations that … own the College Board through their membership. </p>
<p>Sarcasm set aside, aren’t there simpler and more sensible ways to avoid the contacts? Is it really that hard to create a specific email for the college applications? An email that would also convey the appropriate message of an earnest applicant? An email that could be monitored by the students and the helicopter parents? After all, aren’t they the basic gatekeepers, and the ones who resent the contact from the “beneath my darling” colleges and blush at the contacts of Prestigious U that is now … recruiting the same darling? </p>
<p>Fwiw, if you really want to stop the barrage, start checking your GC’s office and make sure that the PSAT information is cleaned to the barebone, and that the information on the SAT never, ever lists the high school. In case of doubt send a letter to the College Board to notify them of your desire to withhold ALL information and expressly NOT share scores with your high school, and copy the school board of your decision. </p>
<p>It really is not that hard to stop the contacts, but then again the big guns (loved by everyone for bragging rights) will also be on the non-contact list. </p>
<p>All in all, isn’t a very neutral email not just as easy and free?</p>
<p>Since I’m somewhat in a job that requires sending mass e-mails as a tactic, I’m all for it. But I absolutely understand that some people really dislike, dare I say “hate” getting unsolicited e-mail and phone calls. </p>
<p>The fact that College Board does such a good job of “sharing” information is only one of many things I dislike about College Board. I’m sure the colleges get their money’s worth back or they wouldn’t be cough, cough, members. Don’t get me started Xiggi LOL.</p>
<p>As sophomores taking the PSAT’s both of my sons misspelled their names. We got mail and email for years afterward for each of them, and we could always tell which College Board list the colleges were using.</p>
<p>Members and … Owners in this case.</p>
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<p>S2 put his full middle name on the PSAT and just his middle initial on the ACT, so we too could tell what came from whom. </p>
<p>The most honest correspondence he got was a letter from the New College of Florida which opened with: “We bought your name from the College Board for 31 cents.”</p>
<p>… And you might we worth 200,000 dollars to us. Help us getting the best ROI. </p>
<p>Sincerely
New College of Florida</p>
<p>Interestingly, S3 got an email from collegeboard reminding him that he’d opted out when registering for the SAT and just click ‘here’ to change that because many, many schools were trying to reach him. ;)</p>
<p>I’m also going to double what xiggi stated about making sure your students do NOT put their hs information on the SAT/ACT booklet when they take the test. The scores will end up being sent back to the school and often listed involuntarily on their transcripts. These as called soft scores and accepted by few schools (ie you still have to send in scores fm collegeboard). It totally defeats score choice. If your student takes both the ACT and SAT doing statistically much better on one, they apply and send only those scores, both sets can show up on the transcript. Colleges say they don’t consider transcript scores, but you can’t ‘unsee’ something, and again it undermines your students right to scorechoice. </p>
<p>I tried without luck to have transcript scores removed. I know others have been successful. Don’t link tests and the hs in any way from the start.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure how this will server the purpose. If you are creating specific email account, you still have to regularly check to make sure there is no important communication that’s lost.</p>
<p>While there was a ton of mail/email at the onslaught. I found some of it helpful. D also got some waivers on application fees. We would just unscribe to colleges she wasn’t interested in at the time.</p>
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<p>Now thats a disclosure requirement I can get behind!</p>
<p>1) When you register your child for something, read the instructions. (I say this, because the opt-in question is actually fairly well marked when you complete the testing registration). Contrary to what many posters are implying, if you do NOT opt in, your email and child’s test scores will NOT be released. Also, NOTE THAT THIS APPLIES WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE PSAT, AS WELL.</p>
<p>2) Consider creating a separate college email address just for the college search purpose. Ironically, we could tell which test generated communications (both paper and email) by the way our last name was spelled. (Last name had no space or capital letters for SAT, but did for ACT).</p>
<p>3) Consider it a compliment. Mostly, the emails are sent because your child actually scored well. Although there are literally thousands of schools, not all of them will elect to communicate with you. They typically are targeting a student whose scores “fit” their preferred profile.</p>
<p>4) If you really don’t want to handle the emails, while you wait for the College Board to process your request to not receive any more emails, create an email filter and just shove “college” emails into a folder. Peruse at will. Ignore at will. Delete at will.</p>
<p>Best of luck in the search process.</p>