Educational Discount

[danny_boy]

Hi There,

I'm on vacation this year in San Francisco. I'm from the UK. I was wondering if I could use my educational discount in the states being from the UK?

Cheers

Danny

[BenRoethig]

Only if you're going to a U.S. based college or university.

[danny_boy]

Ok, Cheers guess I won't be able to then

[torifile]

Give it a try. In my experience, they're pretty lax at verifying anything. If you give them your student id (which they'll need a copy of), they may not even realize it's a UK school. Just don't say anything about it. What the worst that could happen? They say no? Give it a shot and see....

[pmazer]

When buying from the Apple Store, do you need to show anything to verify the educational discount?

[Brad]

Yes. If you don't have an .edu e-mail address or a university ship-to address, you're usually contacted shortly after you place the order and asked to FAX a copy of your student ID and/or transcript.

[FallenFromTheTree]

Does your school have a partner school here in the U.S.?

I think you'll be fine as long as you show your I.D. and mention that you're
touring schools here right now for further education.

[pmazer]

Darn, I guess that means I'll have to wait until orientation (after the $100 rebate is over) in order to buy educational.

[Gman]

So hypothetically speaking, if I work for an educational institution and I take classes as well, would I be eligible for the discount and the rebate?

[sunrain]

So hypothetically speaking, if I work for an educational institution and I take classes as well, would I be eligible for the discount and the rebate?
Actually, you wouldn't even have to take classes to be eligible for an edu discount.

[turtle]

I was able to use the educational discount at the Apple Store near me and have never been asked for anything to prove it. My wife and I home-school our daughter and thats all I told them. I got the discount and never had to present anything to prove one way or the other. So if you are a home-schooler you don't need to worry about being "carded" to get the discount; from my experience.

[torifile]

Just working at an educational institution is all you need. You don't to be a student to get an ed discount. (Someone said this above, but I think it bore rementioning.)

[cysio]

Together with my girlfriend we used the educational discount to buy our ibooks a week ago.
I am a hs senior and she is hs junior.
I was accepted to college, while she is only taking "college now" classes in hs.
We used ibook online store and we were never asked to prove it. After five days our quite ibooks were in our houses.

[rasmits]

I've bought a lot of stuff at Edu discount, and I neither have a .edu address or University ship-to.

They've never asked me for verification. I bought a PowerBook, iBook, Tiger, iMac, and soon a Mac Mini.