<p>D e-mail has 50+ college e-mails per week. So far we've handled this by important e-mails being handled through parent e-mails. She has her "list" and wants to take over the task. Should she notify schools she's not interested in or create a new e-mail account?</p>
<p>Is there a way for her to have an e-mail account that we are copied on? She's very responsible but know that multiple scholarship/admission dates will be very challenging.</p>
<p>My son set up an email account through g-mail just for college applications. We both had the password, although in fact I rarely looked at it.</p>
<p>A lot of times on e-mails if you scroll down you’ll see a link that says something like ‘Unsubscribe’ which will limit some of the e-mails. It helps decrease the amount of e-mails you get and you won’t have to deal with unwanted e-mails.</p>
<p>texascollegemon… if it’s your daughter, why not just say so. </p>
<p>I DONT GET WHY PEOPLE SAY “MY D” instead of MY DAUGHTER. jeeze</p>
<p>I recommend the new email (gmail) account as mathmom said. Something she can get to or that you can get into IF she asks you. Also keeps other junk email and/or personal email from being combined.</p>
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<p>Don’t understand why “people” have to be so rude if someone types D or Daughter. Does it hurt “people”? Especially when you have no advice to give. You’re on the wrong forum if you think people will stop doing it. Y R U SO MAD? Typing in all caps is considered yelling…why do “people” do that?</p>
<p>This is a parents forum please don’t come around and be rude. We come here for advice, not to be yelled at.</p>
<p>All I do is go through skim every single email, if something important comes up, I read it. But most of them I ignore.</p>
<p>To add to a previous post: if you set up a gmail account for your kid’s college communications, you can set it to forward everything to you. </p>
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<p>Not to do with email, but here’s my organization hint: Excel. D handled all of the application stuff, but the finances were my responsibility. I set up a spreadsheet with each college she applied to down the left side, and each requirement across the top. Deadlines were in the intersecting cells. I don’t know how I would have made it through the spring of '09 without that spreadsheet, and the same thing could be done with applications.</p>
<p>I will 2nd/3rd/4th getting a new e-mail address. My kids did it more so it sounded a little more adult than something like “sk8rdude007@aol”. Simple <a href=“mailto:firstnamelastname@gmail”>firstnamelastname@gmail</a>. . . . And I did have the password so I could deal with stuff when they weren’t at a computer (if asked).</p>
<p>On my own I kept a spreadsheet, although not with as much info as many CCers seem to. Mine only have school/location/% admitted/SAT info/size/cost/PR Top 20 lists. It just helped me keep some of the basic facts straight through the process and allowed for easy comparison (and helped me not have to go back and re-check the info for the same schools multiple times). I’ve done similar spreadsheets for many kids of friends.</p>
<p>We also kept a spreadsheet that evolved as the year went on to include a tab for scholarship applications. At first my D laughed at the spreadsheet, but towards the middle of the year, she was happy that we had one.</p>
<p>If firstnamelastname doesn’t work (it didn’t for us) an easy number to remember is the graduation year. :)</p>
<p>My spreadsheet had school name, SAT ranges, percent accepted, percent in top 10%, location (rural, city, suburb), whether they had EA or ED, size, and a few notes about strong suits and stereotypes. I also used the sort function and tried sorting by SAT scores, selectivity and percent in the top of the class. There would be some shifts, but mostly it was pretty clear what safety, matches and reaches were. In the end for my son there was a pretty clear cut-off for the schools that accepted him, schools with acceptance rates over 22% accepted him, under didn’t! EA seemed to make a difference as well. (At least that year EA acceptance at that particular college was about 25% and regular admissions was around 15% if I recall correctly.)</p>
<p>I’ve been using gmail for the last decade or so, so that’s the only one I know anything about. It’s possible to set up a filter to have Google automatically forward any emails containing the word “College” or “University” to you. </p>
<p>Also, with gmail, you can place a plus sign after your username and any random combination of letters, and any emails address to that will end up in your inbox. For example: if my gmail was solanaceae@********** (it’s not, btw), I could have colleges send info to solanaceae+college@********** and then set up a filter so anything sent to solanaceae+college@********** would get forwarded onwards. Thus, I’d get the email in solanaceae@**********, and whoever I set as the forward would also get a copy.</p>