<p>I was asked today whether I knew about any students who had either been accepted or denied admission based on their blog, myspace profile, etc., and couldn't immediately come up with an example.</p>
<p>Of course, one never knows for certaint why one student was accepted or not accepted... but can anyone shed light on this question? Perhaps a student who made his/her web presence an important part of the application materials? Or anyone who was denied admission due to some major transgression being "outed" on his/her personal page?</p>
<p>I would caution people to be careful on the internet. It is sometimes easier than you might think to put things together. There is another thread currently active at: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=143741&page=1&pp=20%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=143741&page=1&pp=20</a>
in which the OP had several red flags and the OP seems to be bogus. For example, the OP says that they called three ivies 12 times until they agreed to review their app early, the OP states having a SAT score that is not divisible by 10, and the OP thanks everybody for their help but it is the first post ever made and the OP joined CC on 02/01/06. The reason I mention it here is that the OP's userid is "alwayz21". It is interesting to google "alwayz21".</p>
<p>A few years ago several students where caught discussing AP US History MC questions on this site. Someone tried to recreate the test and the CB traced him and cancelled his scores.</p>
<p>My advice for all CCers is to be safe. Don't post so much personal information that your posts can be traced back to you. My username is an alias and I havn't posted my exact location. With the number of college reps here, you never know.</p>
<p>Also, remember that a quick google search will turn up all references to your e-mail on the interent. Thus, the e-mail I use for my college applications is different from the one I use on myspace and usenet ect.</p>
<p>Kids dont have common sense these days. It's very easy to use a free e-mail service (and choose a totally unrelated alias) and separate "business" activities from personal activities on the internet..</p>
<p>This reminds me of a thread I saw on here several months ago...I can't remember enough details to search the archives and find it, but it was a post from a girl who had, after a college tour, updated her blog with a glowing review of one particular college. An adcom from another school saw the blog and sent her a hurt/annoyed email about it. She was upset because she liked his school a lot too, just didn't happen to blog on it! So yeah, my advice to everybody is to
1. never give out your full name or exact location on this site (or anywhere on the internet)
2. if you do keep a blog, password-protect all your entries and give the password to trusted friends...you never know if your mom is going to find it, let alone an adcom
3. don't engage in post-SAT discussion..it's hard to resist, but why take the chance? your score is already determined, it doesn't matter anymore.</p>
<p>meh, whatever. I don't give out my name and address for privacy reasons more than college-related action. If admissions officers check CC for particular students, then I think they need to find better things to do. Furthermore, I don't post anything overly-viritrolic. And, lastly, I have multiple email addresses.</p>
<p>(posting exact stats is a surefire way to be ID'd, for the paranoid at heart)</p>
<p>But a full fledged blog that takes some knowledge to maintain...it could help you by showing you in a more "personal" way and show that you are into web design/development.</p>
<p>that would be so immoral for admissions officers to reject u cuz they saw that u posted impolite/vulgar stuff on the internet. that is completely going into ur privacy.</p>
<p>And if a company doesn't give you a job because they ran a background check and found out that you had been in jail, is that immoral? With the popularity of the internet, a lot of companies do that now.</p>
<p>Talking to some people (well, mainly one person) who work with Ivy League admissions offices, I've gotten the impression that googling applicants happens more than we imagine.</p>
<p>But luckily, I share my name with several Asian overachievers, who score awards for piano and math. (: Then again, I don't actually use my full name online, either.</p>
<p>Actually, I just googled my name and the first result that came up was a math professor or something from JHU, hahah.</p>
<p>Googling is unfair because people with common names can get away with murder. You can find out everything about somebody if they have an unusual name.</p>
<p>googling applicants ? how exactly does that work, and what are they searching for ? (i hope they don't find out i'm an Alien from Planet X with an illegal Visa given to me by the Illuminati...) ;)</p>
<p>Well, guys, here's another thing to think about. These days, once in college, you can get in trouble for things posted on your facebook. For example, if you happen to drink, you'd better keep those pictures of you drunk off of your facebook...because the school WILL use those as evidence to punish you. Yup, the internet can get you in trouble, big time.</p>
<p>"A man who has nothing to hide has nothing to fear"</p>
<p>My name is traceable to my blog, but there is nothing there that can incriminate me at all. I even gave it to a few colleges to look over... (if they asked). Its just a blog for people to see and laugh and all the humour is clean.</p>
<p>My take on the matter is that if there is summat secret, then keep it safe. If it is nothing, or you havent done anything wrong then why bother?</p>
<p>And dufus, I did see that googled result. Mr. genius here isnt very smart...
and what is OP?</p>