How do you feel about parents posting their kids’ college admissions results on their own Facebook pages?
I think there should be a reasonable amount of consideration on both sides. If the applicant has been denied by every school to which they applied, then perhaps the student does not want that information floating around in public. If a student has been accepted to and decided to attend a given school, then I don’t see what’s wrong with it. I imagine that parents often have friends and family that would like to know about the good news.
I do think it should be the students place to break the news first though.
I don’t like it UNLESS that’s where the kid is actually going to college later on. Otherwise it’s bragging or rubbing salt into other kids and parents who didn’t get accepted into whatever school it was.
It depends on two things: what school(s) the kid got into, and who the parents’ FB friends are.
If your kid got into State U., and your friends are mostly your relatives and/or fans/alumni of State U., post away.
If your kid got into multiple ultra-competitive schools and your FB friends are parents of your kid’s classmates who also applied to these schools, do not post.
Multiple possibilities here for either offending someone by boasting, or embarrassing your kid/stealing his/her thunder.
Think hard. (I wouldn’t post.)
I think the first step, at least in my case, will be to ask my child how he’d like it handled. My guess is, once there’s a choice made, he won’t mind posing in a relevant tee shirt for a picture that says it all.
People post all kinds of things on FB. Not me, though I have never made a single post on mine.
With my daughter’s permission, I posted her first acceptance when she got it, but haven’t been announcing every single decision. Have seen pretty much that same thing from other friends (posting just for the 1st one), or else waiting entirely until the final decision has been made.
I think if your kid got into MIT today and has decided to go for sure and he/she is okay with you posting, then go for it 
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Have been thinking about this and figure the best thing is to post when the decision is made. If your kid cares about Facebook, then post after he does. Mine doesn’t use Facebook- says it is for old people.
I posted when D2 got into her ED school, which also meant that’s where she was going. I wouldn’t post every school she is accepted/rejected, just where she is going. I also have a very small circle of friends on FB, so everyone on my FB would have wanted to know and they were all very happy for D2.
I have heard parents posting their kid’s SAT scores and such. TMI in my opinion.
Err on the side of humility. Once your child makes a decision about where to go, then you can “friend” the college facebook page and that will subtly announce where s/he is enrolled to those who don’t already know it. My daughter did post about her rejection from a school just because she wanted her classmates to know and not ask about it. This was common practice at her small school.
Really, @oldfort? You know parents who’ve posted their kids’ scores? Mine would absolutely kill me (unless it’s on this forum, where you don’t know who I am!)
With my D’s permission, I posted on FB when she got into her ED school. Obviously since it was ED, she is definitely going. No one else from her school was applying ED to the same school. Although even if someone else had applied and had been deferred or rejected, it seems to me that there’s nothing wrong with reporting where your kid will be attending college. I can see that it would be obnoxious to post a “scorecard” of acceptances, though.
We posted only the final decisions…and onky after the kids posted themselves.
We’re not on FB so I don’t know.
In terms of others hearing about it: D’s school’s GC likes to be updated on results and the school includes congrats to students on the dismissal PA announcements. They do the same for any other student good news (science fairs, athletics, etc)
Tacky, tacky, tacky…under all circumstances. But then, I hate the cute cat pictures, too. Guess that’s why I’m seldom on Facebook.
The foundation that supports D’s school announces on its FB page when seniors get accepted and where they were accepted. Many of them will be the first to go to college on either side of their family, many are immigrants and many are low-income so deciding to go to college, applying and getting in is a huge deal for them. So far, most choose the state flagship or one of the directionals, but several (there have only been a handful of graduating classes) have gone on to selective schools and several full rides based on merit. So I expect that when D applies to college, we’ll be seeing regular updates on HER. That’s ok with me.
I enjoy knowing where my friend’s kids will be attending. I don’t need to know that they were accepted by X number of schools. I simply posted that “Child’s name” will be attending “ABC College” in the fall. That’s it.
I posted about her first admission to one of her public safeties that we discovered by accident when she set up her portal account. I plan (with D’s permission, of course) to post a photo, downloaded from the college bookstore’s website, of an item that says “College X mom” on 5/1 when all the kids wear their college t-shirts to school.
I posted about where my kids were going to college. Not all of their acceptances - just where they’d be attending" and this was only done after said child had already posted it on FB.
I think that the point of F B is for friends and family to hear about what is happening in your life. I can’t imagine how that is tacky.