Do admissions check people's facebook?? I want them to see how good looking I am so I didn't change my name. Good idea or will they not bother to look?
I think if it is in the public sphere you can't discount the possibility. And if that's your profile pic, well it would certainly be an interesting interview...
In any case I would be very careful, and use the profile privacy settings.
By email about 30 minutes ago. So middle of the night on the East Coast? And apparently the admissions committee hasn't even met yet. This feels so unreal.
Has anyone been contacted by MIT about their application being complete? There isn't a place to check if transcripts and GRE scores have been received.
tswift, how do you know the committee hasn't met yet?
congrats, but im hoping to hear back from them soon! my app was submitted on the 5th, but technically not completed until the 10th. i hope that doesn't negatively affect my chances so much i dont get an interview!
Don't freak out about Hopkins! The email specifically said the admissions committee hadn't met yet. He just liked my application (probably SOP) and didn't want to wait to invite me. The majority of invites will come later. I guess it's the same deal with Yale, but I'm not one of the top applicants there lol.
@AliG89 Adcoms do check online information from time to time. They don't have time to do this for all applicants, but if there is a reason they want to see more information then Google is the go to place. It is a good idea to tighten your facebook privacy settings and loosen your LinkedIn privacy settings during application season. This means you can substitute professional profile info for social profile info in the search results. It gives you one more chance to provide evidence of your professional intent that supports the application.
So when I log into my submitted UPenn application it says "Application Status: Incomplete" and then lists everything below that as complete or received. Anyone else have this problem? I'm not sure if I should email the admissions coordinator because they kind of told us not to bother them ... I just don't want to miss my application being reviewed because of some computer error! Thoughts?
