<p>“Agnes Scott Admission” friended me on Facebook after I sent in my application. I accepted; there is nothing on my Facebook page that I wouldn’t want an admissions officer to see. In fact, there are some things that I want them to see, such as my list of favorite books.</p>
<p>Maybe it would be a negative if you declined</p>
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<p>Well, the information stands but the direction changes. Sorry - I thought that was your first post on that page. I must not have looked.</p>
<p>oh no no. I’m not blaming you, just pointing out that I agree with you. I was telling them that people can get your FB info without friending you. Not that i would agree that they would or not.</p>
<p>I don’t get how they would know if it’s you anyways.
Like there’s 5 billion people with the name John Smith who doesn’t list their location, so how do they know which John Smith is you?</p>
<p>but for people w/ unique names</p>
<p>It also lists your network in parenthesis after your name and for most people that’s their high school and year. Also people might put birthdays on the left side info box.</p>
<p>So I had printed the article and my DS saw it. He told me a story of one of his buddies who was actually called from an ivy-league school about a “group”. This group is called, “The John Doe (his name) stole my cell phone group” and it apparently came up when the school searched his name. It was a joke, and done several years ago, but now this kid has to call every school where he applied to let them know it was a joke. The school asked him if he had any felonies he needed to report. Fortunately they called, didn’t just reject him. But this is probably more real that I would have guessed.</p>
<p>Just the same, my DS tells me “not to worry”. Yet he also mentioned several of his friends also used their first and middle names as user names…just in case.</p>
<p>itry: both FB and real life…tons of ECs too.</p>
<p>Some of my friends joke about this on FB. My friend who is a major slacker wrote something on someone’s wall and underneath it said “Dear Princeton, I’m just kidding. I love school, and I study for the whole weekend.”</p>