Social Media

10/13/15

Always be ware of what your putting on social media because you never now who sees it.

According to the article, "Certain high school seniors work meticulously this month to finish their early applications to colleges,some may not realize that comments they casual make online could negatively affect their prospects."

Some students applying for colleges have amazing applications and good grades, however what they put on every day social media can make colleges second think accepting these students.

I was surprised that schools such as Brown don't look at all their applicants social media before accepting them, because there is to many candidates and not enough time.

It was also surprising that there was an increase for 5% of schools to start checking applicants social media! If that percent grows every year there will be a significant amount of schools keeping track of their students.

I was questioning why false and misleading content is taken as a fact. I believe colleges should determine if the content was true before punishing this student by not accepting them.

I did not know that colleges were allowed to go through student's social media without the students permission. I believe it's the students personal privacy, but it can be used to help ditermine if a
student with a 4.0 gpa is really who they seem to be.

Always stay safe and make sure your social media is not filled with bad content!