<p>E-mail the school or include it in the additional information section.</p>
<p>Contacting them now would likely just bring uneeded attention to it. It is highly, highly unlikely that they’ve even read your application so far, let alone taken the time to Google you (when faced with the thousands of apps and materials coming in right now, not to mention all the emails and phone calls from students asking about stuff).</p>
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<p>I already submitted, so emailing would be the only option.</p>
<p>I think I’ll just not contact them. However, they may have read the application already since the common app said that they already downloaded it.</p>
<p>Good decision. I wouldn’t email the school either. I agree with other posters, there’s no need to draw attention to it. What date did they download your app? I just highly doubt that anyone in admissions has been able to read your file yet. Wasn’t Nov. 1 the deadline for all materials? I think you’re fine!</p>
<p>They downloaded everything on October 29.</p>
<p>This is so weird. What adcom is going to have the time to google every applicant. At most it’ll probably be like a few handfuls.</p>
<p>Umm no^^ they download all the applications a week after the deadline.</p>
<p>They download apps whenever they download them. Any date you see means little. Some schools still print apps for review, while some autoload them into their own online review program.</p>
<p>It’s IMO and IME, but I can’t see any good in letting them know about this. You’d have to phrase it just right not to come off sounding unnecessarily frazzled about it, even insecure. Wishing you the best.</p>
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<p>Well, my common app says it’s been downloaded already (I submitted really early).</p>
<p>Thanks for all the advice, everyone.</p>
<p>Oh…my mistake then. I totally thought that I read somewhere that colleges download everyone’s applications a week after the deadline.</p>
<p>Competitive schools often look for facebook and myspace accoubts quickly, to see your persona. That is, if they can confirm they know who you are. If your name is a ‘John Wilson’ or something like that, they probably wouldn’t bother too hard.</p>
<p>Contact Myspace and keep the pressure to close the account completely. Provide scans of your ID and your IP address if necessary. I don’t recall Myspace, but I know facebook doesn’t even offer a contact form, but a help forum instead. </p>
<p>In any case, since your entire name is there, get it closed ASAP, like this week.</p>
<p>Here’s the e-mail I’d send if this happened to me (or my kid):<br>
Dear [name of specific admissions person]: My name is John Doe, and I just submitted my application to Yarvard University. I just wanted to let you know that a “joke” Myspace page under my name was posted by some other students at my school. While I’ve asked them to take it down, I just wanted to let you know about it in case part of your review might include an internet search–the “joke” page isn’t my work and doesn’t represent me or my views. Thanks, and please let me know if you have any questions.</p>
<p>Just because they downloaded it means nothing. It means they downloaded it to their system, and in the case that they read out hard copies, they may have printed it out to put in your file. When they download it has nothing to do with when they read it. </p>
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^That sounds really whiny and insecure. Like he’s “tattling” on them.</p>
<p>No, that’s how grownups do things. Hunt’s phrasing is right on target.</p>
<p>I agree that there is a way to word it, but I don’t think that is it.</p>
<p>The site is down now.</p>