<p>And among the odd school-related item, the first three things that show up are comments I made on a blog about movies and a friend's blog that I follow. Nothing inherently bad about them, but I can see how an Adcom would find it weird that I was discussing the next Batman movie on a blog, or commenting on a friend's posting of this Prince video. It just doesn't put me in this insanely good light, and I'm worried about it; particularly because I don't really have the power to delete those posts (no longer have access to the account I used to make said posts) </p>
<p>Are my fears rational? I mean it seems kinda ridiculous that this could seriously jeopardize my admissions anywhere, but when I see stories like the one just published in WSJ about adcoms googling, I just go insane. Thanks in advance for any answers/advice</p>
<p>A) They can’t be sure its you, there’s likely tons of people who have your name
B) Why would they care if you talk about Batman and Prince on the internet? I don’t understand how thats an issue at all.</p>
<p>Those are totally normal internet behaviors. They are totally normal for anyone. Nothing to be worried about. I am extremely difficult to search because I have a common name (well, not in the U.S., but in my father’s country). My name does draw a petition I signed, but its fine. Now, if they knew my slew of screennames I’d be a little shakier, but I generally don’t post anything out of the ordinary.</p>
<p>Do you honestly think adcoms have the time to sit around and creep on their applicants through Google searches while they’re going through the exhausting admittance process? Probably not. Don’t worry about it!</p>
<p>My husband googled his name a few months ago and ended up at a genealogy website that said I was dead!!! Made for quite an interesting family dinner conversation that night!!!</p>