I just ordered a macbook and the guy on the phone asked if I was a student and what I was studying, but that was it. I even lied about my course (said computer engineering) so he wouldn't talk to me like an idiot and they didn't even check that I am actually a student at my uni. Saved a couple hundred off a macbook and about £500 off a £1600 macbook pro.
Wow, all you had to do was commit fraud. Bargain.