Colleges check your Myspace

<p>This kid i knew got rejected from Penn because he posted “stuff” on his myspace. I guess even sites can make or break you, eh?</p>

<p>Here's how you fix it: Don't have a myspace</p>

<p>Man I could be a professional admissions service.</p>

<p>lol what kind of stuff... speaking of networking sites, make your facebook friends only or tone it WAY down before you start doing job/internship interviews... stories abound about people getting disqualified before the interview because of facebook content</p>

<p>oh man...yeah because no one can see my Myspace because it's set to private (may be changed when i turn a certain age) and there are people from Penn who are friends on Facebook. (i don't know them)</p>

<p>halopeno, stuff it, please. Don't give up. I'm sure the colleges won't say anything if i have nothing on Myspace except for Harry Potter.</p>

<p>Who needs facebook and myspace when there's college confidential. This is way better than myspace. BTW check out myspace the movie on youtub.com
<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=CunJcv89wuk%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=CunJcv89wuk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Just have common sense with any personal profile site; if you post pictures of yourself chugging beers make sure your age is set to at least 21.</p>

<p>mine has nothing like alcohol, just making fun of courses and teachers.</p>

<p>if you're a college student, it's not like it's a big secret if you drink...</p>

<p>i think the sanctions were against people who had like "I like to slap up hos while snorting coke" (i'm probably lying)</p>

<p>Did the letter actually say that they could not offer him admission because of "stuff" on his myspace, or is that one of those idiotic rationalizations people pass around?</p>

<p>read this:</p>

<p><a href="http://ben.mitblogs.com/archives/2006/07/your_profile_on.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ben.mitblogs.com/archives/2006/07/your_profile_on.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>this is a really stupid question but College Confidential, the website, means that everything on it is confidential, where colleges can't read the blogs?</p>

<p>That site did not answer my question.</p>

<p>omg they're not going to actually say, "Kid, you've been rejected because your myspace is rated x." It's really moronic to consider that. Myspace or facebook is a reason why one will get a rejection letter. Also, this isn't a myth. It's happened before, as you can see in that site. (geez)</p>

<p>Yes, but you don't know for a fact that Penn looked at the MySpace and said "well, we're going to reject this kid." There's always the reasoning that they just didn't think your friend a good candidate for Penn.</p>

<p>for college admissions it's not really that big of a deal as there are so many applicants that the admissions officer is not going to check out each and every profile...</p>

<p>however, for jobs/internships its different. After they screen your resume and you and another 15 people are offered an interview (at say an i-bank) one of your interviewers (normally an analyst fresh out of college) might out of curiosity go and check out your facebook profile and they might bring up **** during your interview. I had a friend who actually experienced this...during his interview the interviewer mentioned that he had seen some stuff on his profile and asked my friend to explain it.</p>

<p>heh well it's on the news and everything, where some people got rejected because of this. You can have narrowed it down to 15 apps in college too.</p>

<p>It is not on everything. For example, it is not on the produce shelves at ShopRite. Your friend is one of THOUSANDS of applicants; of this large pool only a few are chosen. I find the MySpace excuse to be more of a bitter rationalization than the real reason.</p>

<p>lol myspace pwned</p>

<p>If I were a college admissions officer, I'd check CC for smarmy, overconfidenct, disingenuous applicants, too.</p>

<p>Not that there are any of those here... >__<</p>