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More complicated than getting the NFL Sunday Ticket. Why can’t they just verify an edu email like the rest of the world? Afraid of people abusing it?

Larrikin 3y ago
As far as I can tell, the entire rest of the world is also moving away from edu address verification. Seems like more and more schools now let you keep your edu address permanently. I almost never see anywhere to easily get educational discounts that doesn't require some kind of verification you are currently a student. Seems like Apple is the only major company without hard verification, but they seem to have a soft policy that allows buying devices at a discount for your child's, niece's, cousin's, etc school expenses
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  The new hotness for student status verification is ID.me. This is, despite some controversy, still the interface to various US Federal agency sites, and other sites as well. ID.me has a pretty rigorous verification system. They will not only verify your student status, they can verify qualified teachers/educators, HCPs, veterans, and recipients of public benefits. So it's sort of one-stop-shopping for a verification broker who will then introduce you to whatever site wants to authenticate you. It was interesting, because I happened to graduate from college in May, much to my own surprise, and ID.me soon notified me that my student status had expired. I don't know if it was on a timer-deadline, or linked to the graduation event, but whichever it was, they were on the ball. LinkedIn uses email addresses to verify employees, for example my own employer set up a thing, but it doesn't accept either of the work email addresses I've been issued, perhaps because we've got "two tiers" of employees and my email looks different from the full-timers'. And you're right about folks keeping our .edu addresses in perpetuity. I worked for an .edu for 4 months, 24 years ago, and I still have access to, and control of, my email address there, in terms of where it forwards. I have no storage or other access, just the ability to point it somewhere.

Larrikin 3y ago

As far as I can tell, the entire rest of the world is also moving away from edu address verification. Seems like more and more schools now let you keep your edu address permanently. I almost never see anywhere to easily get educational discounts that doesn't require some kind of verification you are currently a student. Seems like Apple is the only major company without hard verification, but they seem to have a soft policy that allows buying devices at a discount for your child's, niece's, cousin's, etc school expenses

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
The new hotness for student status verification is ID.me. This is, despite some controversy, still the interface to various US Federal agency sites, and other sites as well. ID.me has a pretty rigorous verification system. They will not only verify your student status, they can verify qualified teachers/educators, HCPs, veterans, and recipients of public benefits. So it's sort of one-stop-shopping for a verification broker who will then introduce you to whatever site wants to authenticate you. It was interesting, because I happened to graduate from college in May, much to my own surprise, and ID.me soon notified me that my student status had expired. I don't know if it was on a timer-deadline, or linked to the graduation event, but whichever it was, they were on the ball. LinkedIn uses email addresses to verify employees, for example my own employer set up a thing, but it doesn't accept either of the work email addresses I've been issued, perhaps because we've got "two tiers" of employees and my email looks different from the full-timers'. And you're right about folks keeping our .edu addresses in perpetuity. I worked for an .edu for 4 months, 24 years ago, and I still have access to, and control of, my email address there, in terms of where it forwards. I have no storage or other access, just the ability to point it somewhere.