College Admissions and Web Searches

cicero_oratore
Wed, 27 May 2009 19:17:05 +0000

I am very curious about this topic, because I have seen it coming up increasingly and I would like to know how much truth there is to it. I have been reading from numerous sources that colleges now are searching email addresses, your online accounts, and your name for use in their admissions process. I do not see how they could possibly do that for every candidate, so I was wondering: do they actually do that at all? Or do they selectively search names? Or randomly?

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