After submitting applications on the common app, colleges typically email you back saying they have received your application and give you an id or password for your login to check your application status. However, these emails are sometimes sent to my personal email, or my brother’s email when I never submitted these other emails?? Does anyone know how colleges get these emails? Thanks!
Did you sign up for mailings with admissions in the past under those emails? Did you mistakenly put your brother’s SSN on your app? Did you give one of those emails when you took standardized tests, and say it is okay for colleges to use them?
It shouldn’t be difficult to change. Email admissions and ask them to please send all future communications to the email you prefer to use.
At some point in time you provided these alternatives emails to the colleges. They are not clairvoyant.