Announcing College Decisions on Facebook?

noemii
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:04:22 +0000

I don’t mind when my friends do it. This year, I haven’t spoken to a lot of my friends very much, so I think it’s nice to see where they may be going to college. I’m assuming that most will be writing posts about where they decide to go to college.

I personally don’t do it b/c of my own personal issues, lol. If I were to do it, I’d feel like I’m bragging. Also, about 2 months ago, I received my acceptance letter from a school that about 150 students from my school also applied to. However, a lot of my friends were rejected from this school and were upset. I felt like writing “Got accepted to X!” would be like rubbing salt in the wound. HOWEVER, as I said, this is just my mentality about why I personally don’t do it.

I also saw one incident where posting an acceptance on Facebook completely backfired. One of my friends recently got into a state school that her sister also goes to, and it’s a pretty good one, too. She wrote on Facebook that she got in. I was pretty shocked to see her relatives (yes, RELATIVES) pounce on her and start bashing the school - they wanted her to attend a different school that… is more in line with their religion, I’ll say (don’t know how to phrase that better) my friend didn’t make any further comments on that post, but still, yikes. Under normal circumstances, people usually just congratulate the person, regardless of their opinion of the school, right?

Out of your three options (post all decisions, only the ones they care about, only the one they’re going to), I’ve seen all three. Some people are posting several of their acceptances, then a few months later, they’ll post which one they actually chose.

I haven’t seen anyone being like, “Got deferred from MIT! #yay!” or “Rejected from Harvard! #hatersgonnahate”… so yeah, just do the acceptances