<p>I really want to change my email address I made in 7th grade. However, this email of course is what the SAT and ACT contact me through, and it's also where I get spammed by colleges. Is it okay to change your email address as a rising senior?</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely. If your e-mail address is <a href="mailto:l33tpwn3r1993@yahoo.com">l33tpwn3r1993@yahoo.com</a>, I highly recommend you change it to something more professional. You’re going to be putting that e-mail on a college application, and jharrison@hotmail or whatever your name is looks better than <a href="mailto:ripemangoluvzcc@yahoo.com">ripemangoluvzcc@yahoo.com</a>. Eventually, you’re going to give that e-mail to employers and interviewers, and you don’t want a ridiculous e-mail address.</p>
<p>There’s usually an option to forward mail from one account to the other. So just have your old account forward the mail it gets to the new one, and then start changing your mailing address on websites so that mail gets sent to your new account.</p>
<p>Yeah, Gmail probably has that. Anomaly I loved your post.</p>
<p>Ok, I can’t decide if I want to change it or not. Basically the address is my last name, with three numbers, and then the word “is” because I thought it’d be cool to have it say smith222 “is” “at” gmail.com</p>
<p>So yeah, my email address looks like <a href="mailto:smith222is@gmail.com">smith222is@gmail.com</a>
its stupid, but is it stupid enough to change?</p>
<p>No, it’s not stupid. Yes, change it. Make it your name @gmail.com (ie <a href="mailto:johnsmith@gmail.com">johnsmith@gmail.com</a>). It makes it very easy for schools to identify you and you don’t look like a 13yo.</p>
<p>Hahaha, I never even thought about my email address when I was doing college applications. I had a stupid, ridiculous email, along the lines of <a href="mailto:coolbob34@blah.com">coolbob34@blah.com</a>. I guess Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT and Stanford overlooked that.</p>
<p>^ Haha no I’m not concerned with how admissions sees my email, I just know its kinda dumb and that I’m gonna change it in the future anyway.</p>
<p>^I don’t think it can kill a great app, it’s just good to have a ‘big-boy email’. My niece had something like <a href="mailto:foxygal88@blah.com">foxygal88@blah.com</a>, so we told her to change it. It can leave an impression you might not want.</p>
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Wait, its not a stupid address but you still think I should change it? My name isn’t available, but <a href="mailto:johnsmith.ct@gmail.com">johnsmith.ct@gmail.com</a> is, that’s good right?</p>
<p>Why not have multiple e-mails and forward them all to each other?
It doesn’t seem to matter much. I get a new one every year or two, with spam and needless mail going to older addresses.</p>
<p>Another couple of e-mail address tips. If you use gmail or yahoo and your parents change servers, you will not have to change your e-mail. I would not make the e-mail too obvious–not first and last name, no birthyear.</p>
<p>I teach and love it when I get e-mails from foxychicky, hotbabe or whatever my students have chosen.</p>