Join Facebook to School once accepted?

Parents Forum
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My dd has now been accepted to a number of schools and has not yet decided where she will go. There are two more highly selective schools that she will not receive a decision from until March. Knowing that, is it ok to still join the Facebook page for accepted students to a couple of the other schools where she is accepted and are serious considerations for enrollment? On the one hand, she is interested to see the student comments on these pages, on the other, she doesn’t want the two colleges she is waiting to hear from to see that she is accepted to other schools and participating in the Facebook pages for fear of lessening her chances of acceptances.

Any thoughts are appreciated!

Thanks!

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I’d be surprised if admissions counselors had time to check what facebook pages candidates were following. It makes sense to join for those schools she is seriously considering. Schools that don’t release decisions until March most likely understand that candidates will be considering other options while waiting to learn of the decision. She should go ahead and collect all the information needed to make an informed decision.

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Can’t the privacy setting be used to prevent non -friends from seeing the student’s list of friends and likes? Or has she already friended the schools that have not accepted her yet?

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  1. Set the privacy settings so nobody can see what groups she has joined.
  2. No admissions committee is looking at this anyway.
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Thanks for the input so far. Yes, she can select not to share her friends list for the college that set up the page as an ‘app’. The others, once they accept her as a member of the page, they will have access to her friends list. Only individuals or groups that are not friends are restricted from seeing the list. Of course I am just a parent and thus, not a Facebook expert. :slight_smile: So I may be missing the understanding of how to block some of this information.

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Yes.

IMO, you’re giving adcoms too much credit if you think they’re going to cyberstalk your D to such an extent :slight_smile:

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Facebook pages for admitted students are only visible to those members of the group. You can only become a member if you send a message to the admissions office and they look you up, find that you have been admitted, and then they give you access. There is no way that it admissions officer from another school has access to these. They not only do not have access, but they don’t have the time or interest.

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The facebook lists are great and there are definitely kids on there who haven’t decided yet. We have had 2 issues with them. One was from an applying to FB list. For better or worse my son decided based on that small random sample that he thought the kids were too rich and pretentious and that he wouldn’t fit in. The school was almost an ideal fit for him academically and financially but in the end he refused to apply even though he loved it when he visited. He would probably be very average in terms of family income there as well. My other issue is that for a great school he has been admitted to the FB group has led to him making lots of friends. All well and good but he still hasn’t heard from his 1 and 2 choices yet and he keeps flirting with wanting to send in a deposit to school 3 because he likes the kids even though academically it’s probably only a 90% fit. It’s a great school and the financial offer is more than generous but I’m afraid he is ready to get married while he is still dating other girls :wink: