<p>like u ever been subjected to legal action or something. they don't say that you need to be convicted. the girl went to court and all, and neglected to mention that on the app. i think being "charged" with a crime counts??</p>
<p>thats' stupid.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's probably why. </p>
<p>I think that was a pretty callous move by Harvard, regardless of her "lying" on her app by not checking the box. Come on.</p>
<p>Do colleges really care if we drink?
Most of my high school drinks occasionally, but its not like I'm out getting hammered every weekend..
I cant imagine that colleges would want an entire freshmen class of sheltered uptight straight edge students
Or are they really looking for science geeks who stay home every weekend trying to discover new elements in their basement chemistry lab?
Not that all non-drinkers are like that.
But I don't see it as so bad..as long as were not bragging about the amazing trip we had on acid last weekend in wall posts..
Or is underage drinking a lot more normal and accepted here than other places?</p>
<p>"Do colleges really care if we drink?
Most of my high school drinks occasionally, but its not like I'm out getting hammered every weekend..
I cant imagine that colleges would want an entire freshmen class of sheltered uptight straight edge students"</p>
<p>The students whom you describe as "sheltered, uptight" are students whom colleges figure would not be likely to cause problems due to: date rape (typically occurs when one or both partners are drunk), dorm vandalism (for some reason, drunken students seem to think that messing up their dorms is fun), embarrasing incidents (public urination, etc.), and injuries and even death (i.e. alcohol intoxication.)</p>
<p>Check out threads and news threads on "Lucifer, " a Cornell freshman National Merit Scholar from St. Louis, who used to post on CC saying how he could handle his liquor, and ended up dying of alcohol intoxication in March '06 while visiting a friend at U Va.</p>
<p>Colleges would like to prevent those kind of problems. Probably having a drinking pix on Facebook won't hurt you with the apps at most schools since most schools accept the majority of their applicants, and make decisions mainly based on gpa, SAT and whether you've taken a college prep courseload. However, when it comes to the most selective colleges -- those that have an overabundance of high stat applicants, having an alcohol-related violation could tip you out.</p>
<p>Just because there's pictures of us holding drinks doesn't mean we drink excessively and turn into animals while doing so, I don't think they should discriminate unless the pictures show that kids are obviously wasted and being out of control.
If we already can drink and be mature about it, I think we'll be better able to handle ourselves in the college atmosphere, where inevitably students will be exposed to underage drinking.</p>
<p>I didn't read all 8 pages but how is a university going to check your facebook if it's set to private...and why would they go to the trouble of searching through maybe 50 names (if you have a common name) to find yours? They don't know what you look like so how could they even be sure it was you if you're not in your high school network? Even then, there could be 2 people with the same name at a high school. </p>
<p>That said, I know a girl who graduated 07 and was accepted to a university and someone emailed naked pictures of her that she took herself to the university and she got rescinded.</p>
<p>"Just because there's pictures of us holding drinks doesn't mean we drink excessively and turn into animals while doing so,"</p>
<p>True. But if the pictures are of you drinking underage, it would be clear that you've been breaking the law, which in itself is problematic.</p>
<p>just don't drink... how hard is it to do that?</p>
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<p>In college, hard.</p>
<p>Thats assuming you aren't a bookworm</p>
<p>I would wager 80% of underage students at college drink or smoke pot, if not more. in hs, i think it's a little sketchier, but if you're talking college, where you are an adult, it's the norm. A 21 year old drinking age may be the law, but it's hardly enforced, and is otherwise ridiculous. You can die for your country but you can't have a beer...</p>
<p>What bout CC? Do they check on tht? Like wht colleges we were considering, how confused we are, like do they read all our posts?</p>
<p>I just got requested on facebook from a girl who goes to Loyola Chicago. I accepted, knowing that my profile was okay, but definitely be cautious. Although those sorts of websites are "private," there can be hidden ways of obtaining informtaion. I don't think I was requested for that purpose, as Loyola has been very interactive in the adm. process so far. It's probably just an extension of that policy (shame, considering I'm not planning on going there). </p>
<p>SkyGirl, I know of a few AdComs who write occasionally on CC (they don't chance or anything, :))</p>
<p>SkyGirl-LMAO. Are you serious? First of all, how are they even going to know who you are if your user name is SkyGirl. And second, what admissions person from Harvard (or whatever college) is seriously going to come on here and search for topics posted by the applicant to see what their emotional state was.</p>
<p>"Welcome to the world of Internet social networking. It's a place, many places in fact, where today's young people let their hair down and connect, they hope, with other like-minded people.</p>
<p>Problem is, the Internet is available to everyone -- including people whose job it is to dig up the dirt on prospective employees.</p>
<p>Employers, bankers, insurance brokers, and college admissions officers are becoming wise by using social networking and blogging sites as an addition to traditional background checks, such as credit and criminal history....</p>
<p>"Unfortunately, I think most of the people who are posting those are only thinking about their intended readers," said Steven Rothberg, president and founder of CollegeRecruiter.com, the highest traffic career site used by students, recent graduates, and employers.</p>
<p>"If you're a 20-year-old college student and you like to get drunk on the weekends, you're probably going to put that on your profile because you want to hook up with other people that do the same."</p>
<p>But Rothberg said the reality students don't consider is that there are unintended readers.</p>
<p>He said officials for large companies and graduate schools he works with often question him about MySpace.</p>
<p>"My best guess is fewer than 10 percent of employers use social networking sites to run background checks on potential employees," Rothberg said. "But that number is growing rapidly ..."</p>
<p>Rothberg said it goes further than jobs and college campuses.</p>
<p>He said some car insurance representatives are viewing Internet sites to see if the driver they're considering is a big drinker....."</p>
<p>"It's very important to educate the students about how public their information is when they're using MySpace," said Barb Juliussen from the University of Pittsburgh's Career Services office.</p>
<p>Juliussen said Pitt student-athletes were warned to be cautious when using the sites as well. She said the athletic department monitors them...."</p>
<p>Actually, sublimeee, SkyGirl has a valid question. While Harvard may not check CC, I am sure that there are other adcoms on here from other colleges who do. And it is always easy to find who somebody is on the internet via information about their location, SAT scores, gender, ip address, etc.</p>
<p>If you have heard about Whole Foods, then you should know that the CEO was caught harrassing another company on Yahoo stock forums, because he was easily traced through his computer.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure that adcoms will only look up a student through their computer if they are REALLY sketchy or absolutely outstanding.</p>
<p>From the Northwestern Chronicle:</p>
<p>"It's a rite of passage for all college freshmen. As soon as that acceptance letter comes in the mail, the first thought is, "Yeah! I get to be on Facebook!"</p>
<p>A phenomenon that has only been around since 2004, Facebook is an online arena for college students to meet new people – and to socialize with friends or classmates from school.</p>
<p>However, what has parents and school administrators on edge is what students put into their profiles. At Fisher College in Massachusetts, two students were expelled for, among other things, saying a police officer needed to be "eliminated," according to ABC News. And at North Carolina State and Northern Kentucky universities, pictures of alcohol consumption led to citations, according to the Des Moines Register...."</p>
<p>"Pablo Malavenda, an associate dean of students at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, speaks frequently at national conferences about the dangers of Facebook. When students join these sites, he explains, it's like creating a poster with all the details of their life and displaying it in the middle of their school or mall.</p>
<p>"Then they're shocked and frustrated that people are stopping to read it because they put it there for their friends," Malavenda says. "It's there and it's public--if you don't want anyone else reading it, don't put it out there."</p>
<p>While he says his office does not conduct random searches of students' Web pages, he does say that the information found on Facebook has been helpful with disciplinary cases that are brought to his attention. "Students are implicating themselves through pictures and comments they make," Malavenda says.</p>
<p>What to watch for
Some experts say the image of college admissions staff searching for every applicant online is inaccurate. That said, Norman clarifies that sometimes college admissions officers stumble onto something inadvertently. For example, if a student's application piques their interest, they may use the Internet to find more information on an award the student won or about a group he or she is involved with--and then something else pops up."
Do</a> You Know Who's Looking? - MSN Encarta</p>
<p>"He said some car insurance representatives are viewing Internet sites to see if the driver they're considering is a big drinker....."</p>
<p>ridiculous...discriminitory. You can be a big drinker and still never, ever get behind the wheel when drunk.</p>
<p>While adcoms might be too busy to snoop around trying to match you to your CC pseudoname, your future employers will have plenty of time. I have been interviewing job applicants for about 15 years. Since the internet became a major part of our everyday life, I have done some googling of too-good-to-be-true applicants, and I came across some questionable Facebook pictures and some bitter blogs. On one occasion, I looked up the name (a rather unique one) of a start-up biotech company only to find a link to a Facebook page full of "beer pong" pictures. The web page belonged to a research associate who just got a job at the start-up!</p>
<p>Someone mentioned the CEO of Whole Foods. Read on:</p>
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In January 2005, someone using the name "Rahodeb" went online to a Yahoo stock-market forum and posted this opinion: No company would want to buy Wild Oats Markets Inc., a natural-foods grocer, at its price then of about $8 a share. </p>
<p>"Would Whole Foods buy OATS?" Rahodeb asked, using Wild Oats' stock symbol. "Almost surely not at current prices. What would they gain? OATS locations are too small." Rahodeb speculated that Wild Oats eventually would be sold after sliding into bankruptcy or when its stock fell below $5. A month later, Rahodeb wrote that Wild Oats management "clearly doesn't know what it is doing. . . . OATS has no value and no future." </p>
<p>The comments were typical of banter on Internet message boards for stocks, but the writer's identity was anything but. Rahodeb was an online pseudonym of John Mackey, co-founder and chief executive of Whole Foods Market Inc. Earlier this year, his company agreed to buy Wild Oats for $565 million, or $18.50 a share.
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<p>Whole</a> Foods CEO Hid on Message Board (Breaking News) | SmartMoney.com</p>
<p>Are you smarter than a CEO?</p>