<p>D was the lead in her high school musical senior year and it is still on her resume. It is relevant when she applies to summer jobs in the arts, etc. I was surprised when I googled her recently that the cast list document came up which showed that she was in fact Rosemary in How to Succeed in Business. Why that playbill was on-line as a google doc, I don’t know, but it just goes to show that anything can pop up and that honesty is important. I could imagine a chorus member thinking, “hey, who would find out if I exaggerated my part? It was over two years ago!”</p>
<p>I think its possible to google them
First of all --of the tons of apps–they are sorted by stats first–and a large portion are not “read” cover to cover…
So don’t think HYP or any U etc reads that many. </p>
<p>Google takes a few seconds for a search----you can google images–which will pull up pics—and That alone can be very informative.</p>
<p>I do it for job applicants.</p>
<p>Did it to see what I could find abut the guy putting in an offer on my house too.</p>
<p>Google finds legal docs, news items, school items etc</p>
<p>If you Google my name, you’d find many people from my ancestral homeland with the same name as me. Add my town name, and you’d get one of my EC’s. Putting Facebook next to my name would be useless, as I have a senior name (wouldn’t be able to search me up on Facebook anyways). Typing Twitter next to my name would only bring up an account with two tweets in 2009. I changed my Instagram email address as well as my username (now my senior name). I’m not very worried about being Googled :)</p>
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<p>Why are they targeting the kids who are looking for funding? Don’t full pay kids ever do anything that could potentially embarrass a college?</p>
<p>I kind of wonder about this, myself. I tried googling myself with no luck, but that could be because my Facebook is private and hasn’t been used in over half a year. There are quite a few alcohol related posts on it, but I was over 21 at the time of every single one, and the only dumb incident was a spat of drunken computer tinkering. I wonder if an admissions person seeing those posts could hurt me when I apply to the CalPolys in October?</p>
<p>Maybe the point wasn’t what would embarrass, but what might particularly merit some special scholarship. But I’d still caution against drawing broad conclusions from statements by an individual at some college.</p>
<p>I googled myself and all I found were death records for my great aunt. My Facebook has lots of the security settings, so I don’t think you could see much more than my profile pic. Yeah, googling me wouldn’t do much. :)</p>
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<p>Common sense dictates that you take look once in a while at your selection process. People’s self-disclosure today allows a chance to do it in a different way.</p>
<p>If I were doing it in this context, my starting place would be the intersection of the greatest financial support from the university and the most marginal academic kids. From there I’d move to the rest of the most marginal academic admits, and probably not make it too far. I might do it for anyone from a group that generates a bunch of griping from outsiders…probably affirmative action admits, athletes, and legacies. Those are the individuals that have the greatest potential to embarrass you. And I guess I might add the students from the most publicly prominent families, since they will attract a lot of negative press attention if they somehow get into trouble. </p>
<p>I seriously doubt, though, if they would do more than a couple dozen of these in any case. It’s too tedious and is likely to turn up ambiguous results. My guess is that some of the results likely to turn up already coincide with some of the material in recommendation letters and available by phone from school guidance counselors. </p>
<p>These people ARE human, even if they say they don’t, it probably doesn’t happen in a clandestine way.</p>
<p>^^ What kinda ignorance did I just read?</p>
<p>The conclusion seems to be that it would be common human nature for an admissions staffer to google a finalist if something doesn’t smell right or seems too good to be true. </p>
<p>I just remember a story of a friend of mine who was an active volunteer at a very large high school. He was at graduation and they announced the awards. The award for his program went to a student that he and other volunteers had never heard of. The guy wrote a BS essay and fooled the school administration. After that, the administration agreed to let the volunteers see the applications before the award was made. </p>
<p>In any case, there is a big difference between a student who lies about their credentials vs. a normal fun-loving student who doesn’t put enough care into their privacy settings.</p>
<p>The Kaplan question catches anyone who has ever googled an applicant and found something negative. It does not report any systematic practice at any university. I believe they surveyed about 380 admission officers out of the thousands in the country. </p>
<p>I’ve worked at a medium-sized, public university (obviously) and on the other end of the spectrum, a small, private specialty school. [The</a> times when I’ve looked students up online, it’s been because I read something really, really cool or something really strange](<a href=“http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-i-use-social-media-part-2_13.html]The”>Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: How I Use Social Media, Part 2).</p>
<p>Many employers, on the other hand, are looking applicants for jobs and internship up online, so I think it’s smart to have a conversation with our students about what they’re putting out there, how they are using hashtags, and how they are using their privacy settings. Most of my students are well aware of how to lock down their social media profiles, but they also accept friend requests from scores of people they don’t know, opening their content up to thousands.</p>
<p>Sadly, some people still believe (wrongly), that they can edit a post and it disappears. Screen shots and cached copies can live on forever.</p>
<p>I was an administrator for a scholarship program and when we googled a lot of what we were trying to find out was about ‘family circumstances/situation’ as the original article said. What wasn’t clear in the article is that what we were trying to figure out were things like ‘if the kid won a state-level science fair for an engineering project, were both of his parents engineers? Did the kid have an internship in a lab that a parent or two worked at? Did the kid who won the poetry award or the national creative writing award also have parents that were published authors? Did the kid who won the symphony concerto competition have a parent who went to Julliard?" KNowing these facts doesn’t make the kids’ accomplishment less significant, but it does provide context. THere actually is a difference between the kid who finds his own internship, takes the bus across town by himself, and takes on two part-time jobs so he can afford the unpaid internship – and the kid who rolls out of bed and into mom or dad’s car where he then goes to work at their lab and comes home afterward and swims in their pool in their expensive house. Both kids may be equally smart and accomplished but one might actually be somewhat more motivated.</p>
<p><a href=“Only Connect | Parke Muth, consultant: Social Media and Admission: An Overview”>http://onlyconnectparke.blogspot.com/2014/09/social-media-and-admission-overview.html</a></p>
<p>Well, even if the admissions office does not, someone will some day. So your child should NOT be posting questionable stuff. Also, I have heard selective schools do google the kids.</p>