<p>Yesterday, my son received a letter from a college, and the e-mail address tey have for him is wrong. He's not getting e-mail from colleges. How can he fix this? Is it important to fix it?</p>
<p>I assume that your son is a junior? Will he be taking the SAT or ACT soon? When he registers for these tests he will be asked for his email address. In the meantime you can call Collegeboard and ask if his email address can be changed. I called them once due to a mix up with an email address and they fixed it for me.</p>
<p>In addition to that, he should go anyway to the websites of the colleges he is interested in and sign up to get information from them. Many colleges do want students to indicate interest (not all), and this is one way to do so AND make sure he is getting mailings and emails from the ones he is most interested in.</p>
<p>Thank you twogirls and intparent! Your advice is very helpful!</p>
<p>Not getting PSAT email from colleges is probably a blessing, that said, it’s easy to fix mistakes by calling the college board, my very bright kid managed to give the wrong date for his birthday!</p>
<p>This happened to my son, and luckily the address they were using was a gmail address that turned out to be available. So he grabbed it and forwarded the mail to the correct address. Honestly, though, I’m not aware that any particularly useful mail came either electronically or by snail mail. We’ve kept piles of it but none of it was personal, essentially it is just advertising. Communication from College Board regarding National Merit was through the high school. i could be wrong, though, as my son doesn’t always tell me everything.</p>
<p>I find it hard to believe an adult can’t counsel a teenager to pick up the phone, call Collegeboard, ask them to get into his record, and get the email fixed. C’mon. If you as an adult found out that a service you used had the wrong email address, what would you do?</p>
<p>^^ That’s a little hash. The OP was also asking if it was important to fix.</p>
<p>Considering that most (if not all) of the email would be in the junk cateogory, I think you should be glad that this is all going to someone else’s in-box. Although you might spare a bit of pity for that poor soul who has to dig through all of it to get to his/her legitimate e-correspondence.</p>
<p>My son deliberately used my email address, knowing that he would get spammed. It worked out well - gave me something to do to “help” him, so I scanned the emails, summarized and forwarded to him as needed. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure he can go into his online CB account and change it there.</p>
<p>Ha ha, yes it is a blessing! They send so much email that it gets hard to find the important stuff. When you fix it, create a new free email account just for college stuff.</p>
<p>PizzaGirl, if you read my original post, it says “How can he fix it.”</p>