Little tip that has worked well for us

Parents Forum
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<p>We set up a separate email for my son which has his first name followed by 'collegeapps' and we've used that ONLY for the applications process. This way, he doesn't have to weed through the tons of emails he's getting from schools asking him to apply, and his other day-to-day mail.</p>

<p>Not rocket-science, but thought I'd share anyway. ;)</p>

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<p>Good idea! We did a similar thing except that it was just the kid’s initial and last name, which has gone forward as her “professional” email for applying to internships and such. Gmail lets you link the two accounts, and I’m guessing other service also let that happen.</p>

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<p>Setting up a separate email for important college information is a great idea. I don’t know that I would put “collegeapps” as the email address. I would just put first name.last name @ whatever. com . Keep it professional sounding. Our ISP allows 10 emails for free so we used those. Gmail is another great option since that is portable.</p>

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<p>We did that as well. Used “first initial last name.2016” (2016 is her year of college graduation) as the name of the account. We wanted an account that was separate, so that important college email didn’t get lost in her regular account (and junk college mail didn’t overwhelm her regular account), and also so I could check the college account if she was away or in school or just not paying the requisite amount of attention. Neither of us wanted me checking her regular e-mail account, so the separate account worked out well.</p>

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<p>Having a separate professional e-mail account is especially helpful if your child’s usual personal account has a less-than-professional e-mail address. </p>

<p>One of my kids has a personal e-mail account with a name that is an oblique reference to a character in a video game. This is not the ideal sort of address for any school- or work-related purpose.</p>

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<p>The kids gave up their vanity license plate e-mails for the professional sounding ones when they were HS juniors.</p>

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<p>We also created a different email account.
I tried and tried to convince my D to name it “professionally” (just using her name) but she refused.
We wound up with a sort of compromise, it’s not strictly professional but it’s not too “cute” either.</p>

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<p>D1 and D2 did the same, and gave us the parents the passwords. We don’t read any unread emails, but it does allow us to check for looming deadlines and other things that might be easily overlooked by teenaged eyes.</p>