Do colleges trawl these forums looking for students?

[emberjed]

Okay, I realize that it's a long shot, since it'd take a lot of time to actually go through all of their records and look for matches, but who knows; maybe they have some specialized tool that looks for certain strings. Basically, my parents all but insisted that I find a way to remove my chance threads here so colleges don't see anything incriminating that I've posted on this forum but won't put in my application, and I'm trying to prove to them that it won't matter. They're even talking about forcing me to delete my account. Would that even work? Preferably, is there any other way to get my chance threads removed?

[marcdvl]

You are in the giant college database. They match up your scores and grades and ecs then look at your other posts to see if you are a tool. Also the NSA has full time analysts reading the posts. They're watching you.

[Hannahbanana69]

Interesting (and creepy) idea, but I would say definitely not. I'm sure that a) there are enough trolls that it would be useless, b)it would be too complicated to connect a username to a real person, and c) they could be sued for stalking if they used the info.
While Big Brother could easily be watching (I was actually just reading an article about companies using purchases to track consumers), I doubt the colleges will, considering all these posts full of eager beavers desperate to apply. Why bother?

[T26E4]

serious serious paranoia. Chillax. They seriously think that come March, at the Princeton admissions offices and they are down to the last few hundred "maybes" that they all flip their laptops open and start trawling for markers/tell tale signs against posts on College Confidential? Really?

[woody35]

No, they don't. Most people don't even use their real name on CC. Chance threads on CC are totally pointless anyway. 100 other high schoolers can tell you that you're certain to get into a particular college but they really have no clue since they don't work for the admissions office or know the criteria any college is using each year to build their incoming classes.

[hsconfidential]

I seriously doubt that even though I thought about it before.

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[MaineLonghorn]

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Posts and threads are not deleted by request. College Confidential - FAQ: College Discussion - TOS & FAQ We get many requests a day, and every person claims to be an "exception."

Deleting accounts makes no difference, because the posts remain.

The lesson is to be very careful about what you post. When you sign up for a site, look at the rules and see if you're allowed to delete posts or not.

[zobroward]

I am sure many schools monitor the site, listening to what people have to say about them. not in a spying/paranoid way. they do not know who you are and are not concerned either. just do not post your name address social security number and personal e mail address and no worries.(sarcasm)

[emberjed]

Sarcasm? 10char