<p>Hey, I wanted to start a discussion on how to use social media to increase your chances of being accepted into your first choice school. Here are my initial thoughts, please add more as you think of them:</p>
<p>1) Use LinkedIn to network with college admissions officers. Even if you only ask them a simple question (i.e. what are the things you look for most in an applicant?), you are putting yourself in front of them and when they go to review your application, they'll have a familiarity with you that they don't have with many of the other applicants.</p>
<p>2) Use Facebook to follow the schools you are applying to. Maybe post some things on the wall.</p>
<p>How else can you leverage social media to improve your college application?</p>
<p>I fail to see how any of your actions is a desired trait in college admissions. If you were applying for a PR job, i can see how it would help. But to be annoyed with Linkedin simple questions that you should have answered elsewhere makes you more a pest than a favorable memory.</p>
<p>With LinkedIn I would take the approach of only connecting with people in your network. In other words, don’t just randomly message college admissions officers, but make sure you contact those who you have some existing connection with.</p>
<p>Are there any other ways social media can be used to improve your application?</p>
<p>I think that using social media in the ways that you’re suggesting would just serve to irritate admissions officers and lower your chances of admission. They have enough on their plate not to want students tweeting them or frivolously contacting them in other ways just to try to impress the adcoms.</p>