are colleges allowed to share my application with other ppl or organizations?

<p>are colleges allowed to share my application with other people or organizations without my permission? this includes scholarship sponsors, private companies, newspapers and even my former high school. i'm concerned about the privacy of my application, grades, scores, essays and the resume that I attached.</p>

<p>of course, this excludes court orders like the one that exposed Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard app to the world.</p>