Disciplinary History on Common App?

Truust
Sat, 12 Oct 2013 04:04:20 +0000

Yes, there’s this one rule that colleges follow: It’s that if you favorite a tweet, then you will have a significant disadvantage against all other college applicants.

Okay, but more seriously, whether or not you put it on I doubt it’ll have any effect. If you really think that colleges would decide between you and your friend by considering whether or not you favorited a tweet, then you’re crazy. If your friend is accepted over you at a mutual university you both applied to, it’s almost certainly going to be because she had the better essay/better test scores/better GPA.

Honestly, I don’t even think what either of you did was some huge mistake that you should be worrying about at all. It’s all just your school overreacting. And I don’t think there will be any suspicion over a lack of leadership positions either… Plenty of students that apply and get into top universities aren’t on their school’s student council.

However, if you have nothing else whatsoever on your application conveying your leadership skills, that’s a different matter entirely (in the case of selective colleges that actually care about this stuff).