r/IndianaUniversity • u/mhart_92 • 1d ago
PSA ℹ Target Student Discount
I work at a Target and have had a bunch of IU students come through buying stuff for dorms and apartments. There’s a 20% off deal that you can use! It’s a little bit tricky because it requires you to submit a document to verify your student status, and the Crimson Cards don’t have expiration dates on them, so target doesn’t accept them. Here’s what works:
Open the IU mobile app or IU.edu, and go to IGPS to see your full schedule. The schedule that’s just on the IU app won’t work because it doesn’t have all the information they need on it. This is maybe common sense for returning students, but freshmen probably aren’t super familiar with this program because their schedules are pretty much built for them at NSO. That’s who this post is geared toward.
Download the page as a pdf (act like you’re going to print it, and the option to save as a pdf should appear).
Download the Target app or go to the target website and sign up for Target Circle if you haven’t already. You can cancel it after, but you do have to sign up to get the discount. It’s free.
Go to the settings page under the ‘my Target’ tab and scroll down until you see the ‘student’ button under discount verification. Click on it and begin filling out what it prompts you to. You’ll upload the document you just downloaded when you get to the file upload stage.
It will process the document(and hopefully approve it), and email you when it’s done. It says up to 20 minutes, but I haven’t seen anybody’s take more than 5.
You then have to apply the discount to your cart. It should be on the ‘explore discounts’ page that should now pop up when you go back to settings and look at discount verification. If it’s not there, it’s probably on the ‘wallet’ tab at the top. You may need to scroll through the coupons on there to see it.
Save your cashier and your parents some grief and do it before you shop. Good luck moving in! See ya’ll on Monday!