Colleges embrace online media to recruit a new generation

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<p>Nice trend-watching article in the Westchester online Journal on the extent to which social media has become a driving force in college admissions. The conclusions of a recent report, “The Game Has Changed: College Admissions Outpace Corporations in Embracing Social Media,” will not come as any surprise to avid CC readers - that social media not only has arrived in college admissions, but that it has changed the process forever:</p>

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<p>Some colleges go from just blogs like Tulane to mega-elaborate blogs, message boards, online message boards, video blogs, student profiles, facebook groups like MIT ([MIT</a> Admissions: Meet The Bloggers](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/blogs.shtml]MIT”>Blogs | MIT Admissions)) and Johns Hopkins ([Hopkins</a> Interactive](<a href=“http://apply.jhu.edu/hi/]Hopkins”>http://apply.jhu.edu/hi/))</p>

<p>There is a post on here somewhere I saw all the list of blogs that colleges have… you’ll have to do a search for it however.</p>

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<p>[Here’s</a> that list](<a href=“Parents Forum - College Confidential Forums”>Parents Forum - College Confidential Forums)</p>

<p>Some of my colleagues have already emailed me because we missed them…I try to keep [url=<a href=“http://uvaadmission.blogspot.com/2005/07/issues-blogs-me-uva-httpuvaadmission.html]an”>http://uvaadmission.blogspot.com/2005/07/issues-blogs-me-uva-httpuvaadmission.html]an</a> updated list on the bottom of one of my blogs<a href=“it’s%20back%20dated%20so%20it%20stays%20at%20the%20bottom”>/url</a>.</p>

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<p>Check out UChicago’s admission’s blog. It’s quite entertaining.</p>