<p>Exactly no school is going to admit to using any form of online profiles because could you just imagine the legal trouble that might come about.</p>
<p>Why would that bring about legal trouble? I’m sure collages have been Googling applicants for years, informally.</p>
<p>Well because when you send an application in, you send it with the intention that the application adn only the application is what they will be basing their acceptance/rejection on. So for them to do some extra sort of investigation [with the exception of background checks] that would in some way disadvantage you is unfair to the applicant and considerably unethical.</p>
<p>Plus it seems so… stupid. “Let me go check this applicant’s facebook”</p>
<p>I mean really</p>
<p>Okay but let me just say again that it is also STUPID to put nasty or embarassing stuff on facebook…just don’t do it…if you don’t want it in the public eye don’t put it on your facebook.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t put anything incriminating on my Facebook because I’m totally paranoid, but I really don’t think it was used in 2006 admissions, because tons of kids in my class got accepted to Ivies and other top 20 schools with very blantant pictures of themselves doing kegstands, having strippers at parties, etc on their Facebooks. Draw your own conclusions!</p>
<p>Tonyt88 - don’t kid yourself. You can be certain it happens - since when are adcoms forced or even supposed to put blinders on and ignore or not even look at information about applicants that is right there on-line?</p>
<p>Dean J - a CC member and admissions dean from Univ. of Virginia wrote this about it in a similar thread on the parents forum about googling applicants:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=227509&page=2[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=227509&page=2</a></p>
<p>"I wrote a blog entry about this back in April and another one in June.</p>
<p>I’ve worked at large and small schools. Regardless of the number of applications we receive, during application season, we don’t have too much time to be searching out students on the web. However, once in a while, something will peak our interest and we’ll check up on it. </p>
<p>Prepping for interviews at another [engineering] school, I routinely googled students. That school required that students email a resume or list of interests ahead of time and if something specific was mentioned, I’d check it out. </p>
<p>I especially did this for students involved in FIRST robotics (videos of many competitions are online). FIRST is an activity that I find really interesting and the students seemed to like the fact that I had seen their team in action.</p>
<p>I guess that’s a yes and a no answer. Hope it helps a little bit."</p>
<p>I’ve heard of employers or federal angencies using facebook/myspace to check you out, but colleges? I mean, I can’t imagine what your myspace would have that would jeopardize your admission- an alcohol pic? It seems that every profile has at least one- if the adcom thinks they can screen out drinkers and non-drinkers, that’s very unrealistic.</p>
<p>A UVA admissions dean said “peak our interest”? Either he’s not a real dean, or he really needs to learn to proofread…</p>
<p>^^The latter. To be registered as a College Rep, CC members must provide proof of authenticity to the site management. </p>
<p>And BTW, Dean J is a she.</p>
<p>That’s beautiful</p>
<p>Ah, well I appologize for assuming Dean J was a man. But I let my comment stand that a Dean representing her institution in pubic should make sure to proofread her statements.</p>
<p>if we don’t have enough friends/wallposts… does that jeopardize our chances cuz it shows we’re loners!!! XD</p>
<p>If you’re worried about people looking at your profile you should either set it to be private or be really carefull what you put on it…</p>
<p>…Actually if colleges are looking at it, then couldn’t making a really mature, smart sounding profile actually help?</p>