Didn’t Get Into Your Dream School? Blame Facebook!

It’s official, Facebook is no longer just a harmless social networking site.

By Abby

It’s now the most dangerous web site for your future. Not only do many employers admit to looking at facebook profiles for potential hires, but it may have had an influence on where you were accepted to college.

Are you one of those people who can’t figure out why they didn’t get into their dream school, even though you wrote a kick a** essay, aced the ACTs/SATs, did about 1,235 extracurricular activities, started a volunteer organization, and help the homeless in your spare time?

Well, maybe you should check the inappropriate quotes on your profile or all of those pictures tagged of you underage drinking in your friend’s basement while her parents were out of town.

Yes, sadly enough, it’s true. Admissions officers at a particular Ivy league college now admit to checking facebook for potential applicants. Ugh, this makes me sick.

Brown University officials said in a NY Times article that “there is a limit to what we can appropriately judge people on…But, you have to remember (Facebook) is a public place.”

Also in the article, it said that “Sometimes admission officers receive friend requests on Facebook from applicants, noting that accepting the requests ‘would appear weird.’

The real question here is: Why on earth are middle aged admissions officers on Facebook?

If they want us to set a positive example with our facebook profiles that would be deemed college applicant friendly, then I don’t think the actual officers should take part in the somewhat juvenile web site. That seems, somehow…hypocritical.

Maybe others don’t see this as a very big deal, but I know that during my college years, the last people I wanted checking out my profile are school officials, much less admissions officers.

Bottom Line: Clean, clean, clean up your profile. Untag, untag, untag your pics!