<p>They probably search your name along with location and such to try to make the search more accurate or something.</p>
<p>thats a good point. ahha very few things come up for me then, but they are just about being a national merit finalist and all the math competitions i used to go to in 6th grade =P</p>
<p>they'd probably enlist the help of the NSA....:D</p>
<p>I googled my name and the first result is a law professor at the University of Virginia...</p>
<p>they'd only google you if you have something highly suspicious on your application..</p>
<p>like what?</p>
<p>for example, if you wrote that you are a piano prodigy in your application and there is no mention of it in the counselor's recommendation letter, that is quite suspicious.</p>
<p>hupkorea, the counselor might just not know you well?</p>
<p>most people resume to their counselors when asking recommendation.. at least I would.</p>
<p>while applying to college, i actually never thought about the possibility of admissions couselors googling applicants and reading facebook/xanga/myspace. but not too long ago, a scholarship counselor and another person involved in awarding merit-based scholarships brought to my attention that sometimes they do google applicants. they wanted to know what i thought about some schools letting myspace, etc. affect admission and scholarship decisions since they heard some fellow colleagues did it. </p>
<p>by no means do they google all applicants though, and i think sometimes it's really more out of curiosity than suspicion that they do it. i think if you were a finalist for a high-profile scholarship, for example, someone might look you up just because they like to get to know the candidates.</p>
<p>Heh, I was looking through the logs on my web site and it turns out I have a google search for my real name from where the University of Southern California is. Unfortunately, as I didn't realize, my older, more immature site (but not nearly as awful as the typical myspace) is page-ranked higher in Google all of a sudden. Before you couldn't get any of my websites by googling my name, what a conveniently timed page-rank switch!</p>
<p>Anyways, I'm not getting any scholarships from USC, at least I don't think I am, I was googled after scholarship candidates were identified, which is kind of strange so maybe it is more common than most people think (I was accepted though).</p>
<p>As for how confident I am that this person was from USC, well frankly, I have no idea why or how someone would end up googling my full name in LA. I noticed "socal" in their domain and investigated more into my logs. Ah well, we need not get into it.</p>
<p>So, there you have it, admissions councelors will, on occaison, google you.</p>
<p>Edit: Actually my logs separated out my sites, but regardless I have a ton of hits from LA and San Diego for my better site too. Well anyways, I guess that's just more proof, if anyone really cares.</p>
<p>My site is a Harry Potter site. How can they use that against me? :p</p>