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<p>Does anyone have an opinion on how MT college admissions might use Facebook to see where their applicants have been accepted?? It is pretty easy to find out where kids have been accepted as most schools have an 'MT Class of 13' group. Most of these also have at least one current student who has joined who can 'answer questions.' Are colleges looking at these? Using them to help determine admit rate or who to admit? Just curious and paraniod.</p>

<p>I wouldn't worry. I really don't think the MT departments at schools have the time or inclination to peruse Facebook to determine if a student has been accepted elsewhere. On other CC forums there are occasional threads about acceptance offers being withdrawn when admissions staff stumble on Facebook postings that reflect some egregiously irresponsible or outrageous behavior or bring into question a student's moral character but, frankly, those postings are usually anecdotal, unconfirmable and there is always the unanswered question of how the school found the posting to begin with. If an MT program was going to use Facebook to monitor acceptances elsewhere, it would need to delegate this task to someone who would then have to correlate each student who the school had in the "pot" of "acceptable" students with a list of other schools to which the students was applying and then check on Facebook on a daily basis from about now through April 15. Not very likely in my view. If there is a concern, the Facebook privacy and security settings are pretty good at keeping all posts, comments, group memberships and profiles private and accessible only to those who you want to allow to see them.</p>

<p>I don't think you're paranoid, Mom4X, just realistic. My guess is that the schools aren't using it YET, but will probably get more savvy about it as time goes on, and it may impact future classes. On the other hand, I don't think it changes what they already know; rather, it just confirms it. Many of our kids get accepted to more than one school, and as we say here all the time, can only go to one. In reality, the yields haven't changed, the players are just being more public about it.</p>

<p>This thread just caught my eye - and I do not want to resurrect an issue which might contribute to feelings of apprehension during the time folks are waiting to hear about acceptances and wait lists.... I did want to share that I was at a conference recently and speaking with the owner of casting agency the question of facebook and the internet came up - and he said they do check out facebook etc. before making hires. I have not heard of colleges doing this - they certainly would not do it as a general filter - but when you are getting down to the last few spots and having trouble making a decision - it could enter into the picture - if not now, at some time in the future. Never post anything you are not comfortable with any/everyone seeing.</p>

<p>Because some of my current and former students are my friends on facebook, and they are friends with some of the kids who audition for us, I sometimes have noticed where a student we accepted ends up attending, but I can't imagine taking the time to peruse facebook looking to see if a student has already been accepted elsewhere when putting together our list of students to accept to our program. As someone said above we know that kids apply and will most likely be accepted to multiple schools. Seeing that on facebook would only confirm that knowledge. Students who are accepted to multiple programs can only attend one, and will make that decision when they are ready. On a separate, but related note, if a student has already decided to attend a school before hearing from other schools, you would be doing the other students who have applied a favor if you contact the schools you will not attend before they have sent out letters. That way the school can take you put of the pool of auditionees, and offer the spot to another applicant.</p>

<p>I completely agree with Kate. Sometimes I see something after the fact because of the friends network, but it's kind of in passing. I really do believe that this process works and students end up where they should be and the most essential component is that it feels right to them.</p>