<p>Yep. And why do you want to hurt someone else's chances for your own gain? You probably were the kid who wasn't even invited to the parties where the pictures were taken. .</p>
<p>I'm sure a college would think about rejecting an applicant for having those pictures, but they sure as hell would reject you as well for sending them in. I can't imagine a college reacting positively towards someone who would so something like that.</p>
<p>I'm sure you'll be fine. Just make sure not to post any pics of you taking that huge bong rip. I think some of you may be a little too paranoid.</p>
<p>@Milmagn</p>
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I have actually thought about it... how effective is it to send in pics of people drinking?
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Hey, college admissions is getting more competitive each year... Any slight disadvantage might hurt your application
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<p>uumm... based on your first comment I think maybe you meant to say Any slight advantage might help your application?</p>
<p>I guess you really do need all the help you can get!</p>
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but they sure as hell would reject you as well for sending them in. I can't imagine a college reacting positively towards someone who would so something like that.
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it's called anonymous tips</p>
<p>It's not there have never been any anonymous tips before... There was someone who called dartmouth or something about cheating, I heard on this forum.</p>
<p>Oh awesome, you do that Mr. Slick. Cover all your tracks when you're over your peers. I hope you sleep well at night.</p>
<p>seriously, people. if the college is problematic enough to base their admission decisions not on the inherent merits or demerits of the applicant but on common (and arguably socially acceptable) teen imbibing (as long as it is not excessive), then I say, to hell with them. When your parents pass you a glass of champagne on New Year's, or that glass of merlot on Christmas, do you say, "sorry mom and pop, I can't drink. It's an ethical issue."?</p>
<p>Milkmagn, you sound like a NARK. Don't be a nark, no matter how "advantageous" you think it is to your college prospects. Trust me, the colleges have a way of figuring out. If there are three people applying from a school, and someone NARKED like you suggested you would, obviously they would assume it's the nerd, not the party boy, who NARKED. Think long and hard about that. NARKING is a moral issue of a much greater magnitude than imbibing (except of course imbibing and operating vehicles.)</p>
<p>Why would they give a about what you do on your own time? Shouldn't they care more about your performance IN CLASS, and, more importantly, if you can pay for their school using the least of their financial aid?</p>
<p>I have always wondered about how many admissions officers or what not look at CC...it really gives this place the whole "Big Brother is watching" feel, lol. </p>
<p>I think everyone on here has given great advice about what to do with the facebook photo. I really don't think admissions officers would take the time to go through every applicant's facebook, unless there is suspicion (aka an "anonymous tip"). I also don't think ratting out on other applicants will make you look any better, though.</p>
<p>Milkmagn: how would you feel if you were accepted into a school because of such dirty machinations? Take the high road and, honestly, do you really want to completely screw over your karma...?</p>
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<p>Yes it is scary. But hopefully you all have the common sense not to participate in things that could get you in trouble, or at least have enough sense not to get caught or photographed......seriously, I don't understand why people post pictures of themselves drinking on facebook. They're idiots if they think those pictures stay on facebook.</p>
<p>16,000 applicants...16,000 facebook accounts to check. Not likely. </p>
<p>But this whole phenomenon about people (employers, ad officers, whoever) checking facebook and myspace is so unnerving to me. Why? ANY photo can be taken out of context. Or even if the photo itself isn't taken out of context, the situation can be. </p>
<p>I'm in general a pretty upstanding citizen, but yeah, I've got pictures of me looking debacherous on facebook. Why? It's fun to have them up there. It's fun to reminisce with your friends about that party last Friday. And can you honestly say that most college students don't do things that would get them in trouble? ^^^ Please. </p>
<p>Sure, there's a picture of my drinking a beer on the statue of the school mascot. But does it say that I'm not actually drinking the beer (just holding it to my lips for the pic) and that i was 21 at the time? No. </p>
<p>Sure, there's a picture of me and a group of friends wearing drag and not much else for a party. But does it say that's for an annual Queer Alliance party that's all about a night of sexual expression and gender*****? No. </p>
<p>These things don't reflect who I am as a person, or what kind of student, employee, or intern I would be!!! </p>
<p>And fwiw, if you untag the bad photo from the album, untag the whole album, because otherwise big brother can get into the album and see it that way. Or heck, they can even just click on the name of your friend if they have access to the network and find it that way too. You have to do more than untag if people are as...uh...a**holeish about this as people say.</p>
<p>well, seldom, i suppose,...they r kinda toooo busy~</p>
<p>facebook=never
cc=seldom ^_^</p>
<p>lol.. I don't think adcoms ever have time to check facebook.. and about cc.. I wonder how can they check as everybodyz got a mask name..</p>
<p>^ try to guess me.</p>
<p>haha I didn't put my screen name on my app because it was too similar to my CC name.</p>
<p>It's a terrible idea, and any responsible dean of admissions should explicitly tell his staff not to do it. For one thing, as others have mentioned, there are far too many applicants to feasibly check all of them. So who does arouse enough suspicion to get checked? If an adcom had a minority applicant from the inner city, a white prep school student and only enough time to check one of them, whose profile would they look for? </p>
<p>Not only is there the risk that decisions will be based on what adcoms think of someone's personal life, but there's always a risk that they'll actually be looking at the wrong person. This is an especially huge risk on message boards.</p>
<p>There's also the possibility that they'll use these searches to uncover information about applicants that they legitimately chose to keep private and which could not legitimately be used to make a decision about their application. This is probably more of a concern for job applicants, but it's a relatively easy way to find out somebody's race, ethnicity, religion, marital status, etc.</p>
<p>I asked Grinnell this as a side question. They said no. But if you have an incriminating email: <a href="mailto:iwantyourmother@xxx.com">iwantyourmother@xxx.com</a> it will reflect negatively. </p>
<p>As for CC, who is going to admit they went to this site? I keep this a deep dark secret.</p>