<p>I'm just wondering, do college admissions officers look at what's posted here? Will it jeopardize my chances at a school if I write something about it here? Has that ever happened before?</p>
<p>Probably not. I don't think they will recognize it.</p>
<p>That's why none of us use or show real names ..just to be on the safe side. Not necessarily from adcoms, but fellow peers etc.</p>
<p>there are a few admissions officers that read and post on CC on the various forums (usually at their school and some come over to the parent's forum). It does not mean that they don't scan through some of the othert forums.</p>
<p>remember the world is smaller than you think and with some posters, it would not be hard to connect the dots.</p>
<p>You should assume that admissions personnel at colleges look at this site at least now and then. One reason: to see what is being said about their college to assure they are not being slandered. For the most part nothing said by persons on this board will actually impact on the decision to admit them both because real identities are not known and because they are not saying anything out of the ordinary. Where concern should exist, and it has happened now and then, is when someone starts providing enough information that he can be identified or at least placed in a high school and comes on and says something like: "I lied through my teeth on the application." That is something that may send an admissions persons looking for ways to try to identify the speaker.</p>
<p>there was a poster a few years back (xmatt maybe?) who set up a website where people could post their stats and accepted/rejected decisions. He captured the IP addresses of people who visited and found quite a few from college admission offices, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>So it is reasonable to assume that adcoms cruise thru forums like this (after all, admissions IS what they do for a living). And I think people should be cautious about posting info that could lead to their identity being found out by an adcom who decided to take the time (eg. listing specific awards or activities, topics of essays sent to a school, etc).</p>
<p>I think you should post with, how shall we say, circumspection? (Is that a word?) Sometimes when people provide detailed stats and personal details an admissions officer who happens to read their post is definitely going to recognize that person. Case in point: A kid was posting about not getting in to UVA. When he called the admissions office to find out why he didn't get in they told him they knew who he was (apparently from reading his posts here on CC).</p>