<p>A few months ago we visited a college with our son who has ADD. We met one-on-one with an admissions rep, and during the course of the discussion we talked about his learning issues and disclosed some very sensitive information about our family. We now have reason to believe that the admissions rep made this information available to another person (possibly a student, we are not sure of their identity.) This person posted a reply to a post that we made on CC about this college. In their post they indicated that they knew personal information about us that would be embarrassing if disclosed. As you can imagine we are in a state of shock. We complained to the CC moderator and are still waiting for a reply, but presumably the most they can do is delete the post or disqualify the person from posting. That doesn't really go to the heart of the problem, which is: Is there any legal obligation (maybe under the Americans with Disabilities law) for an admissions office to keep this kind of information confidential? If so is there any recourse? Thank you for any advice.</p>
<p>cmscribe, I too would be shocked to find personal information given in confidence was passed on to others. I would suggest contacting the Head of Admissions (Dean?) to report the breach. I don’t know if you have legal recourse, but I do believe the person in charge would want to know that information given in confidence was shared. I have learned through CC that sometimes students are part of the admission process, but this does not sound like that was the case. That the person given the information then implied on a forum that they knew your identify and information about you definitely compounds the seriousness of the misdeed.</p>
<p>Thank you entertainersmom. After talking it over we decided not to notify the school because we think they may have done this on purpose to frighten us. This all came up because of a question I posted on another thread, asking whether several “students” who joinedCC on the same day and started posting very positive comments about the school, might be working for their admissions office. Two of these “students” then replied to the effect, “We know who you are.” My wife found another thread where a person who said they were affiliated with the school, put up a very negative post about some things that happened to a colleague. One of the same “students” who replied to me, put up a post about this other person saying they had a mental illness, and after that the person stopped posting. My wife thinks I should just stop posting anything about this school, no doubt she is right. Even if we filed an ADA complaint or something along those lines, we cannot prove that the admissions office was involved in these posts. Still I find it very troubling.</p>