<p>It is amazing how successful Facebook is at allowing our kids to connect to new situations. After my son was accepted to Dartmouth he immediately went on Facebook and joined the Dartmouth 2012 group. He has spent that last few days connecting with fellow EDer's from around the country. He is finding out just how much in common he was with these other kids. A kid in Maine is helping everyone on what to bring for cold weather. Others are just sharing their high school experience and enthusiasm. Gone are the days when you show up to the new school and walk around with a name badge.</p>
<p>Facebook is great for accepted students, but I wish some regular enrolled students would give back a bit of time and show up on the CC forums still for those pending situations aplenty. Some enrolled kids do visit both, and I appreciate them, even though it's probably more fun to cheer on the newly accepted.</p>
<p>Your challenge now, as a happy camper, is to keep remembering all the ones disappointed or confused all the way through May 1.</p>
<p>Still, I want to celebrate you (minus the guilt-trip above) to say:</p>
<p>CONGRATULATIONS on your S's Dartmouth ED!!!!</p>
<p>Facebook is a great new addition to the college scene, and the students handle it with greater maturity than MySpace and all of that.</p>
<p>For those puzzled by the thread, when a student is admitted, they are soon given an access code to join the college website "Facebook" available only to enrolled students. It is great for all their shop-talk needs about that one college or uni.</p>
<p>p3t,</p>
<p>The facebook is now open to all - you don't have to be enrolled in college, or belong to any network to open an account. Even my dog has one ;).</p>
<p>Even so, you can only join a university network with a .edu e-mail address.</p>
<p>That's true as far as joining a university network--however, my D was accepted ED to Dickinson, and a number of those kids have already found each other on Facebook and have created a Facebook group for "Dickinson 2012"--they're all so excited they just can't wait for their official college email addresses to start meeting each other!</p>
<p>so dazzled by the fast-moving train of technology .. awesome</p>
<p>What else is Facebook useful for?</p>
<p>On</a> Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data - New York Times</p>
<p>Obsessed with whether or not my kids can get into a real college, I found out that if I looked at their high school facebook group (not like I can see anyone's actual page, just the name and picture), the seniors and just graduated students all have their college name next to their picture so I can see that Jenny who failed chemistry still got into Real State University or count the number of kids who got into Ivies.</p>
<p>I know of situations where kids have gotten to know each other well enough on Facebook groups for accepted students that they requested each other as roommates.</p>
<p>D was in the food service/Diner the second day she was on campus, and a guy walked by and they both looked at each other and he said, "you're xxx, right? I recognize you from facebook!!!" They were playing poker that night, lol!!!</p>
<p>One of D's best friends at school is a guy she met her first day on Facebook as an accepted Barnard student. Since she is on the Columbia network she also met kids at Columbia.</p>
<p>Half-way through her junior year they are still best friends. She met another best friend through him; the second friend is a young woman at Barnard whom the first friend has known since preschool. </p>
<p>Neither of them were in any of her classes, and the Barnard girl did not live on her floor.</p>
<p>Facebook was their first connection.</p>
<p>Now the Columbia guy is devastated because both girls will be in London for Spring semester, though they are at different schools, D would want me to say.</p>
<p>S connected with a bunch of kids through Facebook the summer before starting college. Once he met them in real life, a few turned out different than he thought and did not remain friends. But his closest core of friends a year later are those he "met" on Facebook.</p>
<p>The technology may have moved downward so that this year's high school seniors are that much more savy than those a few years back, but if your kid is not - warn them about the bad parts..... that the flip comments they think are funny might not resonate with someone from another part of the country; that college national Facebook friends might not "connect" to the silly jokes his or her local friends post. That misunderstandings from web postings can make them enemies on campus before they set foot there.</p>
<p>Hi. I?m new here. Facebook is great. My daughter found out last Friday that Yale deferred her. We live in southeast Alabama and there are not many (if any) other kids applying to northeastern schools. My daughter said she was afraid all of her friends will know where they are going (i.e., Auburn OR Alabama) and she?ll be waiting all by herself until April to find out where she?s going. I told her to see if she could find a support group of deferred kids on Facebook and ? lo and behold ? she found a few groups to join. Even if she ends up not going to school with these kids, she no longer feels alone, plus she?s getting some interesting feedback. She?s even received emails from kids who go to other schools she?s applied to?putting in a good word for their schools.</p>
<p>Oh, by the time my son started at college this fall, he had met a large number of classmates via Facebook. I spent the first day of orientation having one person after another come up to him and hug and stuff. (I swear, he was hugged by half the girls in his freshman class during the first 4 hours on campus.) Right now he's enjoying seeing the prospective students he met and liked who are now admitted ED and are joining their facebook group.</p>