College Grad Programs
 

Does anyone know if any of the airlines offer free miles for college grads? I know I can get 10,000 miles through united for graduating college (I suppose they are trying to get my business), but I wasn wondering if anyone knew of any other airlines that were offering similar deals. Thanks.



[This message has been edited by mddolloff (edited Feb 17, 2004).]

Please tell me more about this offer. I recently graduated and would love to get any kind of free miles.

I wonder if they can retroactively give you the graduation bonus http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by sxf24 (edited Feb 16, 2004).]

See: http://www.collegeplus.com/

I clicked on both of the above links and could not find anything about receiving 10,000 miles at graduation. Could you link the specific page and/or copy/paste it in Flyertalk?

Thanks !

Just go to www.ual.com and do a search for "college" It should be the first link that pops up.

If you go to the link sited above:
http://www.collegeplus.com/

and click on Earn Miles, the page that comes up tells you how to earn 10 000 miles upon graduation.

The program does not give the miles retroactively, you have to register before graduation.

Picked up a degree in 98. A couple years after the fact, I asked United if I still qualified for the graduation perk. After FAXing them a copy of my diploma, I got 10K. Yeah United!

At the age of 43 I will be getting mine next year. I just signed up for the college program but I see no link to any page that tells of a 10K bonus. Does anyone have a link to that page?

Go to www.collegeplus.com and click on "earn miles"

My question is: what if you are already a United plus member and went back to school recently and just graduated? Should they signup for a new account under collegeplus? or can they apply it automatically?

Also...um..does graduating a 2 year school with your associate's degree count?

Thanks in advanced!

No need to sign up for a new account. Use your current one. I'm not sure about the 2-year vs 4-year thing. Just say undergrad or grad when you register so I'm not sure.

Does anyone know if I can re-register as a grad student now that I have gotten finished my undergrad and gotten those miles?

I'd forgotten all about this as you don't see it advertised anymore. Our future son-in-law was happy to have this tidbit.
Thanks,

I'm going to have to go back many more years than that to tell them when I graduated (CSU Northridge). But in looking at their website, I see the following:


We will help you celebrate your college graduation with 10,000 Mileage Plus bonus miles. Just send the following to the address below, and your bonus will be posted to your account within 4--6 weeks of receipt:

A copy of your final transcript showing that you did indeed graduate as a full-time student from a U.S. college or university.

Your United College Plus/Mileage Plus account number.

Your e-mail address.
Mileage Plus, Inc.
P.O. Box 40
Rapid City, SD 57709
Attn: College Plus Graduation


Nothing there to indicate a date. Worth trying, even if you graduated decades ago.

I think so. In fact, I've reregistered for it because I'm four months away from a second Bachelor's degree (I got my first one in December of 2002, and got the miles several months later).

They told me that there is a time limit in reporting the graduation to get the miles (IIRC, it was 90 days), but they waived it for me because I wasn't very far past that.

Mike

I wonder how long they will keep this wording on CollegePlus' front page:

I emailed them in June asking for details on earning miles through community service and they said they weren't doing that anymore. Still, mid-August, the front page to CollegePlus still promises miles for community service.

If I do this, I'll send them a copy of my diploma (no need to let UAL see my entire transcript, and what classes I did poorly in). Might be a problem, though, if they enforce a time limit. I guess I could change the year and governor's signature on the copy. Will UAL send me to Mileage Plus prison for this?

I hear that they food and wine in the first class cells are superb!

Well, perhaps better than anything UAL would serve you, anyway...

thats why i only sent them the first page of the transcript and blacked out stuff that was none of their business :D

i thought it was pretty cool that even though i was months done with school, when they put the miles in my account, my statement said that they were credited on my grad date. it was a very small (but awesome and personal) touch that made me smile

i also remember how pissed my gf at the time was she didnt know about collegeplus, and she didnt know that you could send your diploma in if you were a regular MP member

Hmm.. if UA allows someone to get miles a couple years after graduation will you let us know? I got my BA in 2002 so I doubt they're going to give them to me now. Thankfully even if they won't fork them over (and quite rightfully not, but I can hope) I can get miles when I get my JD in 2005.

Wonder if they have a limit to the number of times you can qualify? Seems that there might be a booming business in $29.95 Diploma Mill diplomas (my calculation is approx 3cents per mile. )

I received my JD this spring and United gave me the 10000 miles...

Many places on the web do sell "duplicate diplomas," transcripts, etc.
But something tells me the folks at UAL might get suspicious after you say you received 10 bachelors and masters degrees and also throw in a few Ph.D's, unless you can prove you're the smartest person in the world (providing Mensa membership credentials, etc.).

Graduated years ago too!
 

I agree....sending them an entire transcript will certainly make me feel stupid especially letting them see my poor grades in my goof off classes. Anyone can confirm if they've actually able to recently receive miles from a graduation date of years ago? I graduated in 2000 so I'll try to sneak by if I can.

I'm not sure if they will gift you the miles, however, I know for a fact that you must have been a member of College Plus PRIOR to graduation... That fact alone disqualifies many prior graduates of the miles. Doesn't hurt to try I guess!

Looks like they've added a time limit at:

http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,3106,00.html

"* Copy of official transcript must be received within 12 months of graduation."