Hi everyone,
I’m writing because I am a high school senior applying to some very competitive schools this year and am afraid of people in my high school trying to sabotage my application by sending videos of me underage drinking to these colleges. Is there anything I can do to try and prevent this from happening?
Thanks and I appreciate any criticism/feedback.
TL.
You can’t really stop people from doing that if they have the videos of you…at least I’m not aware of anything you could do.
The only advice I could give you is that you really shouldn’t be drinking at your age, if you’re worried about people filming you.
No. But here’s a couple pieces of good news:
1/ College Admissions Officers did not just fall off the turnip truck. Do you really think that AO’s have never heard of application sabotage or that they will give any credence to an anonymous report?
2/ Colleges will not care if you get caught for underage drinking. Similarly, they will care less if you got busted for sneaking out of school to get lunch at McDonald’s or smoking a cig behind the dumpster. Relax.
Thanks for your advice! I will be more careful around alcohol from now on.
No record of being suspended with your school discipline or police issues and you are fine. If your social media has any videos or pictures that colleges should not be seeing make them totally private until decisions come out.