<p>I've heard that colleges go on facebook and myspace to search the applicants and I've heard some colleges have kicked people out of admissions based on these, is this true?</p>
<p>I've heard that they've found applicants on the internet (not using that as a basis for admission, though), but how will anyone here know, except for actual adcoms?</p>
<p>Hmmm I also have heard rumors like that as well. I have no basis for providing a valid answer, but just to speculate...</p>
<p>Doubtful they search through the FB's/MS's of thousands of applicants. But if they happen to, probably wouldn't be a good idea to have lots of pictures of yourself wasted chugging down a 40 at some party</p>
<p>I've goggled and yahoo searched my name and soooooo much stuff comes up thats actually true. But nothing bad, just awards and such.</p>
<p>If they Googled my email name, they'd find my deviantart. </p>
<p>I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think there was an article in Newsweek a whle back about a kid who did get his admission rescinded because the college saw pics of him drinking on facebook, but I might not remember that correctly. How do they view your facebook though, wouldn't they have to request you?</p>
<p>Wow, this scares me. And I don't have anything remotely incriminating on my Facebook. Just lots of notes where I rant. I hope that doesn't portray me as a whiny kid. I'm not, I swear!</p>
<p>If they googled me, they'd see that my writing was featured in online literature magazines. I wonder if this is one way they'll check if this is true. A listing of me on NHS, a main portfolio page for my AP Computer Science class and a speech for my LSC election.</p>
<p>Nothing incriminating there!</p>
<p>I googled my name and found the website of a paper factory in China. Yes. Paper.</p>
<p>Apparantly there is some kid with the same name as me in Washington state... wierd.... very athletic kid though</p>
<p>I addressed this on my blog twice and linked to articles in a variety of publications about the practice.</p>
<p>The practice isn't widespread in admission offices, but I'd err on the side of caution.</p>
<p><a href="http://uvaadmission.blogspot.com/2006/04/your-myspace-is-our-myspace.html%5B/url%5D">http://uvaadmission.blogspot.com/2006/04/your-myspace-is-our-myspace.html</a>
<a href="http://uvaadmission.blogspot.com/2006/06/myspacefacebook-revisited.html%5B/url%5D">http://uvaadmission.blogspot.com/2006/06/myspacefacebook-revisited.html</a></p>
<p>How can they see your Facebook account (which means pictures) if it's limited to your friends?</p>
<p>I think that people need to be aware of their "internet" face (myspace, facebook, elsewhere) once they're in college and looking for a job. Corporate human resource depts deal, generally, in smaller numbers. Let's say I'm looking to fill 20 sales rep positions. I travel to 10 schools, and find 70 possibles after spending several weeks. We do 2nd round interviews and get down to 35. How easy would it be to have someone in my office google those 35? A couple of days work -- well worth it given the training and investment we'll put into the new hires.</p>
<p>That's corporate HR.</p>
<p>College admissions? You're an Ivy and get 20000 apps -- each file you pore over, the vast majority getting multiple, multiple reads. You whittle it down say, 4000 to eventually get to 2000 accepts. Who in the office has time to google 4000 apps? </p>
<p>I suppose a web spider program could be developed. I can see the parameters now: "bong" "pitcher" "pot" "topless". Eiewwww -- scary. But I suppose possible.</p>
<p>One of my names, it shows I'm a PhD at OSU... YES!</p>
<p>The other, shows I'm an honor grad and a lot of other awards. I didn't know I was an honor grad O_o</p>
<p>I think you're much more likely to have a problem with the administration at your high school...or, like another poster said, a job. However, it is a possibility...I've seen so many kids ****ed about being busted for drinking/drugs via myspace, but...the internet is public, after all.</p>
<p>If I was an adcom and found an applicant with incriminating photos, I think I'd reject them not so much for partying but more for a clear lack of common sense.</p>
<p>Say your name is Bobby Smith. An adcom can google your name and find a facebook or myspace. They see the details, and they can pretty much tell it's you. They then can look at your pictures and videos. See, if they see pictures of little Bobby smoking a joint, they might be motivated to rescind the offer of admission.</p>
<p>the military schools do sometimes...</p>
<p>well this is why smart people set their profiles to "private" or "friends only"... or like me, you'd navigate your way through a Japanese blog site and get an account, never once mentioning your real name, specific location, etc. Then it would never come up on a search, and if you were to make a stupid post about doing stupid things, it would never screw you over.</p>
<p>Do what i do.. use different E-mail addresses for Myspace and forums and have a different one for Colleges...(one e-mail address just for college stuff)</p>
<p>My myspace probably helped me. Nothing in it is bad, just makes me seem like a popular, outgoing kid.</p>
<p>haha
I don't think adcoms/employers check tho. Maybe they check some famous kids to see what they're doing. But chances that they check you is almost 0. </p>
<p>Even if employers check, they can't do anything. It's your personal life, they hire you by your skills that show up on ur resumes and interviews, not by what you do with ur friends on weekends. You can show them drinking pictures too, I doubt that they will reject you.</p>