<p>do colleges "google" applicants? Specifically, I'm wondering about ED? or do they not have any time/wouldn't think about it.</p>
<p>What would it matter unless you are hiding something in which case why would they want you?</p>
<p>i've never heard of that before... i don't think they do, it WOULD take up way too much time, and as great as google is, it's not the most reliable source of info about a person, because if you have a common name, and look it up on google, you might get everything from some guy who committed a felony to the nobel peace prize winner and possibly nothing about the real you... so yeah, not too reliable. I doubt that they do.</p>
<p>I think that would be funny if colleges "googled" people because then they're saying they don't trust the applicants who might be a potential student at their school. But, if they wanted to "google" my name, good for them. They wouldn't find out much about me, they'd find a lot more about my siblings and relatives instead. That may or may not be a good thing, lol.</p>
<p>i mean the only way that googling would be effective is if you claim to have won a huge national prize and when they checked it, you didnt. other than that, there are just so many common names, etc. that would make it far from useful.</p>
<p>put it this way</p>
<p>if they googled my name, they would find out that I am the star of a romance novel.</p>
<p>(how did I forget that in my EC's)</p>
<p>Like the other posters, I don't think googling would be possible. I googled my name once and found out that I have two prominent namesakes: one a widely-published surgeon, and the other an acclaimed athlete. I can find references to the real me, but only on about the fourth page of Google responses. How would colleges determine which one is the applicant?</p>
<p>D googled her name once and found out she already had a Ph.D. and was a professor at a prominent university! So she quit school. </p>
<p>Okay, she didn't quit school. I made that part up.</p>
<p>I'd be pleased for them to because the only places my name shows up are on the website for my community service group and in an article about me giving a speech at a conference on AIDS.</p>
<p>It's fun sometimes to search (I don't Google) myself, relatives and associates, just to see what info is actually on the net. A lot of it is outdated info though, which is very annoying. </p>
<p>If you have an interview, you might want to search your interviewer's name, just for fun. You might find some interesting conversation pieces.</p>
<p>I made a thread linking to an article about this a few weeks ago...</p>
<p>On the other hand (about googling your interviewer) you may end up with some totally wrong peice of information.
Heh, googling told me that there is a person by the same name as my mother who lives in the town my mom grew up in, and is a dentist. Which is REALLY strange because my mom is in the dentists office a lot...</p>
<p>It's fun sometimes to search (I don't Google) myself, relatives and associates, just to see what info is actually on the net. A lot of it is outdated info though, which is very annoying. </p>
<p>If you have an interview, you might want to search your interviewer's name, just for fun. You might find some interesting conversation pieces.</p>
<p>I just did...certainly there are duplicate names in the world, the trick to Googling yourself is placing another unique identifying word in, like the town you live in, school, whatever. I pulled up all these goofy online problems (well, they were cool at the time) from this Math Forum thing I did in middle school, along with race results from track and local 5Ks and stuff. I doubt they Google applicants purely out of, well, lack of time and reliability in the process of doing so.</p>
<p>I googled myself i aint interesting unless u think Inventing a strange kind of soda?</p>
<p>When I google myself 39 of the 40 results ARE me. I have a pretty uncommon first name, but most (all?) of the results are from running/skiing races.</p>
<p>I google my name and I got some artist.</p>
<p>not to get offtopic, but put your phonenumber into google with your area code and without parentheses or hyphens so it looks like this: 1234567890</p>
<p>you'll be in for a surprise if you haven't done this before</p>
<p>if you add my middle names then the results are actually me because thats how i am credited on imdb and wiki and such but if you just do first and last, you get some moron radio personality</p>
<p>unless you have a relatively unique name or you did something that will yield lots of results.. i doubt there'd be any useful information returned</p>