I've been on Apple devices since the Apple II series, and owned the second Mac ever built. Mac Pro, multiple MacBook Pros, iPhones, iPads, the works. Your downvotes are undeserved and you make a fair point. edu site is meant to be, and, in theory, they could decide to offer email addresses to their members. It doesn't meet the current specs for what a. , for example, is not an educational institution, even though it is an education-related site. edu domain name owners from transferring their domain names to other entities." However, the listed source for that statement is a dead link. edu website from one of these holdovers, or pay to have one of them create an email address for you, but "Since 2006, Educause has been authorized to implement measures to prevent. Per Wikipedia, "Since 2001, new registrants to have been required to be United States-affiliated institutions of higher education before then, registrants included non-U.S.-affiliated-and even non-educational-institutions, with some retaining their registrations to the present." Theoretically, you could buy a. I guess they could bill you for classes if you forget to drop too, but you can still drop within the no-penalty drop period.Įdit: The answer, for anyone else curious, is that some top-level domains are restricted, including. The worst that can really happen is you get some class catalogs in the (e)mail. If a particular school deactivates emails with no activity, you can always "register" for classes every successive term too. You can always register and drop a class if you're paranoid about getting caught for fraud or whatever no one can really prove that you didn't have intent to actually show up for class. edu email pretty much right away as part of your "orientation" process.Īgain, depends on the school, but you probably don't even need to register for classes. It probably depends on the school, but most schools I've applied to give you an. Any local community college is pretty much open admission, and you can apply in minutes online using your real info, and it's probably easier too.
Using fake info is honestly a bit overly paranoid.
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