Could Facebook Hurt Your Chances To Get Into College?
College admissions offices are scanning students' social media accounts.
Could the posts on your teen's Facebook page hurt his or her chances to get into college? Possibly. According to a report on ABC World News , with annual admissions getting more and more competitive some schools have resorted to skimming social media pages to scope out potential students. "Most kids have no idea how important it is that their profile[s] online -- Twitter, Facebook, other social media spaces -- need to be appropriate for the admissions process," said Dean Skarlis, president of The College Advisor of New York, to ABC World News. "Most kids don't even realize what's appropriate and what's not because they're 16, 17 and their idea of what might be appropriate is very different than that of a college admissions person." The …
Karla Yeager Loughead
10:28 am on Saturday, October 20, 2012
I don't know about colleges, but what was in Facebook and the internet was the difference between my son getting his job and another applicant not getting it. more ›