<p>Hello everyone! I work in the Admissions Office at my college(College of the Atlantic) and therefore have access to applications (albiet I cannot discuss them). We have a small admissions team, since it's one of the smallest colleges in America (300 students), so I know the admission counselors and hear most of the conversations.</p>
<p>A funny topic came up one day about email addresses of prospective students, and how humorous and sometimes inappropriate email addresses make their ways into applications. Whether this affects an applicants chances i'm not sure.</p>
<p>Although it is pretty obvious not to include a non-professional e-mail, I know that I have even made this mistake and so I wanted to let it be known that the counselors do take notice of it. :)</p>
<p>I think it would be obvious that if you have an email like "<a href="mailto:hungoverdaily8329@hotmail.com">hungoverdaily8329@hotmail.com</a>", it wouldn't behoove you to put it on your application.</p>
<p>I actually have a separate college email- I check it daily. I did this for two reasons:
-The inbox flood is containable to a single address.
-I can seperate important college mail from unimportant personal mail.
-When my older sibling went to college, he used my parents email. He's been in college for a few years now, but my parents are still getting bombarded by college mail...
-The spam filter on my regular mail is a little bit oversensitive, and it tends to filter out most college mail. I don't want to delete anything.</p>
<p>The seperate college email thing might be a bit overboard, but I thought it would be common sense to use an email address that was appropriate...</p>
<p>This is the best suggestion i can make. I use gmail, i have one personal and one school related. I link the school related one to my personal, so whenever there is an email to my school related, it shows up flagged in my personal and depending on how important it is helps me determine whether i need to go and respond or not.</p>