Discounts for developers who happen to be students

Re:Discounts for developers who happen to be students by pcr0 on Sunday May 10, 2015 @09:15PM (#9522166)

Unfortunate the GitHub student pack takes at least half a year to verify, if not longer :(

Not sure why they take so long to verify when every other student discount is instantaneous or takes up to two days (e.g. Apple, BitBucket, CodeSchool)

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Re:Discounts for developers who happen to be students by bepolite on Monday May 11, 2015 @02:46AM (#9523097)

My student discount was verified in 3 business days and I'm not even in an popular university. I don't know why yours is taking so long

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Re:Discounts for developers who happen to be students by detaro on Sunday May 10, 2015 @09:30PM (#9522211)

Certainly not "at least". Maybe if they don't know the institution yet? But that really sounds annoying.

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Re:Discounts for developers who happen to be students by pcr0 on Sunday May 10, 2015 @09:46PM (#9522260)

Slight exaggeration on my part.

I've been waiting for 2 months now. It seems their backlog is growing at an increasing rate, and with it, their response time.

Might also have to do with non-.edu emails

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Re:Discounts for developers who happen to be students by detaro on Sunday May 10, 2015 @10:06PM (#9522322)

Yeah, I guess they have a list of domains that clearly identify students (not just .edu) and can process these very quickly, and others have to be done manually?

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Re:Discounts for developers who happen to be students by toomuchtodo on Sunday May 10, 2015 @10:25PM (#9522378)

My .edu email account was approved same day.

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Re:Discounts for developers who happen to be students by pcr0 on Monday May 11, 2015 @01:55AM (#9522963)

Seems to be the case, I see.

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