Because deleting it would be rather rude lol.
It depends on the school. There are several options. Some schools convert it to an alumni email address and they usually tack "alumni" into the domain somewhere. Others keep it for a certain amount of time so you have a transition period and then they delete it. Other schools keep it as a forwarding address so you don’t have access to their mail system but can still get mail at that address, it just gets forwarded to the permanent address you provide them with. However, I went to a small private college for a while, and this college guarantees your student email address for life. Even though I transferred away from the school, I still have access to that email account on their mail system and can use the email address as if I never left. I still get school-wide emails, too.
It depends mostly on the size of the student body and the school’s resources. A smaller school can maintain email addresses for everyone who comes through the college or university if there are only about 1000 students per graduating class. However, at larger schools, with like 15,000 students graduating and 15,000 new freshmen every year, it’s probably easier for the technology department to get the emails of former students out of the system and off their servers. Plus, name-based email address versus computer generated ones will require more turnover. Some colleges have, for example, the first two letters of your last name then the last four numbers of your social security number, so Mike Goldberg whose SSN is 123 45 6789 would be go6789@college.edu, and that would be really specific to him. However, there might be 20 people that could be MGoldberg@college.edu. At a small school, it’s less likely for this to happen, so they could just add a 1 or 2 or a grad year onto the end of a duplicate, versus at a big school it might get up to MGoldberg378 because there were 377 before him. It’s easier just to delete the old ones and start fresh.
December 6th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
no
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December 6th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
yes but it might come along with an "alumni" word attached to it.
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December 6th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
No, you don’t. Some schools have alumni email addresses, but they add that to the address so it’s obvious you’re not a student anymore. There are a ton of places that will give you discounts for having a student email address, so be prepared to loose it when you’re not a student anymore.
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December 6th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Normally you do not keep it.
Some schools will offer you an alumni account from a different domain, but either way you have to set up email forwarding and starting letting people know about the change.
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December 6th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
It depends on the school. There are several options. Some schools convert it to an alumni email address and they usually tack "alumni" into the domain somewhere. Others keep it for a certain amount of time so you have a transition period and then they delete it. Other schools keep it as a forwarding address so you don’t have access to their mail system but can still get mail at that address, it just gets forwarded to the permanent address you provide them with. However, I went to a small private college for a while, and this college guarantees your student email address for life. Even though I transferred away from the school, I still have access to that email account on their mail system and can use the email address as if I never left. I still get school-wide emails, too.
It depends mostly on the size of the student body and the school’s resources. A smaller school can maintain email addresses for everyone who comes through the college or university if there are only about 1000 students per graduating class. However, at larger schools, with like 15,000 students graduating and 15,000 new freshmen every year, it’s probably easier for the technology department to get the emails of former students out of the system and off their servers. Plus, name-based email address versus computer generated ones will require more turnover. Some colleges have, for example, the first two letters of your last name then the last four numbers of your social security number, so Mike Goldberg whose SSN is 123 45 6789 would be go6789@college.edu, and that would be really specific to him. However, there might be 20 people that could be MGoldberg@college.edu. At a small school, it’s less likely for this to happen, so they could just add a 1 or 2 or a grad year onto the end of a duplicate, versus at a big school it might get up to MGoldberg378 because there were 377 before him. It’s easier just to delete the old ones and start fresh.
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