It is easy enough to look at the OP’s chances threads. I am sure if I were an admissions officer I could identify him fairly easily.
@fretfulmother I would check out this thread http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1078868-financial-aid-at-university-of-michigan-ann-arbor.html
It’'s unlikely that the Ivies have some sort of Benedict Cumberbatch-type character frantically seeking to identify CCers before the April notification deadline. (A great film by the way–all about statistics–and interesting to note - spoiler alert - that even with a great machine like Enigma, what finally brought them down in the end was hubris.)
Still, I have often wondered if posting a “Chance Me” is a good idea for prospective applicants. By disclosing gender alone, the possibilities are cut in half. Add in state of residence, race, public/private h.s., legacy status, etc and the field of possibilities rapidly narrows. In the end a fairly unique identifier, such as an h.s. year abroad in England followed by a dip in grades, can possibly bring it down to a single individual.
But do the admissions officers really care to do this? And if they did, could they adequately factor in exaggeration by posters? The risk to the university of misidentification would probably be too great, IMO.
@MidwestDad3 Idk, but I do remember reading something about a girl who got into a school and was saying the orientation was boring on twitter. They saw that, and rescinded her acceptance. So it’s slightly different, but adcoms do have a pretty watchful eye and it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility to have some on here who are adcoms, but choose to not identify as such.
“I do remember reading something about a girl who got into a school and was saying the orientation was boring on twitter. They saw that, and rescinded her acceptance.”
You seriously believe that a college would be so petty as to rescind an acceptance based on a comment made on Twitter (that did not threaten violence or otherwise suddenly indicate that she was unsuitable for the college or of unfit character? (Wait, no, it couldn’t have been that she was rescinded for something else – such as a downturn in grades, a falsification of her accomplishments, etc.) It couldn’t have possibly been a coincidence, the timing of the Twitter comment and the timing of the decision reversal.
The Internet: The Almighty, unvarnished TRUTH.
Brother.
As I think I have alluded to before, I have no interest whatsoever in that or how that might work. My interest is in the patency of this “experiment”.
@CaliCash, that thread you posted was about fin aid to OOS at UMich, not merit money. Also it’s a few years old. UMich says it has expanded fin aid to OOS recently.
Um… You posted your grades, stats, and ECs on a public forum. Then went on to start a thread about how you applied to 31 schools with no real preference except for whatever will get you to Wall Street. There would be nothing “unlawful” about an ad com using your chances info to find you.
@epiphany I read it in my local paper. It occurred in my state and an adcom spoke on it in the paper.
@fretfulmother @PurpleTitan From UM: “While we do not have sufficient funds to meet the full demonstrated financial need of many non-resident students, private scholarships and scholarships from U-M schools and colleges may be available”. AKA, don’t hold your breath on aid. Obviously it’s not impossible to get a significant merit scholarship. But it’s not a common occurrence. And for need based aid. I mean, it’s an expensive out of state public school.
@CaliCash
I’m still calling BS on that story; why would you even want to go to a school that rules with such an iron fist as to suppress any negative (and in this case, probably more neutral) opinions?
@foolish You’re entitled to your opinion.
“@epiphany I read it in my local paper. It occurred in my state and an adcom spoke on it in the paper.”
Send me the link or the complete story. I want to know what exactly was said by the student and what was said by the adcom. Something doesn’t add up. People don’t get rescinded MERELY for making a negative comment about an orientation on a Twitter page. Also, there would likely have to be some kind of warning, disclaimer, etc. in the Offer Letter to the student regarding what are grounds for recission. Typically those are downturns in grades or major behavioral infractions such as using obscenities about the U on a public forum, etc. Students are not rescinded for merely criticizing a college publicly. An employee situation is very different, because in that case you are representing the company and are a stakeholder. (For example, an administrator at a college could get fired or demoted for doing something similar, or even between their offer letter and their start date.) Perhaps she was rescinded for bad language (“conduct unbecoming”), or the adcom threw in an additional aggravation about the student, but her exercising free speech, as long as the speech was not offensive or condemnatory, is not believable to me out of context.
Yeah, not a week goes by that a school newspaper doesn’t publish some op ed about something they feel their school is doing wrong. Those students aren’t getting expelled. For one thing, nobody has time for that, and another, it’s perfectly healthy to express disapproval of what a school is doing.
Again, the student would have had to been disrespectful, called college administrators or student reps demeaning names, used bad language – within that supposed criticism, IF the Twitter comment supposedly was the catalyst for the rescission all by itself. Something would have had to risen to a level of contempt for the college and what the college stands for in order for the Twitter comment all by itself to be sufficient grounds for rescission. This is not the former Soviet Union.
Well this has morphed into a thread where we basically discuss anything we want… 
Which is completely fine by me, lol.
Probably thinking of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/business/they-loved-your-gpa-then-they-saw-your-tweets.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
The student in the first paragraphs had not been accepted when the admissions office read the rude online comments.
Yep, as I thought. (Read the article) Student was NOT admitted and then rescinded. Rather, she was denied. Further, as I predicted earlier, she had used expletives in her writing.
Nothing like the exaggerations and MISREPRESENTATIONS on the Internet. Yeah, that really helps the, ahem, transparency of the process. Bad data. (GIGO, as they used to say in the early days of computers)
@IAmTheGOAT Haha thanks, I hope we haven’t completely screwed everything up lol
I hope I won’t annoy people by saying: this thread is really entertaining. Is this for real? Anyway, thanks Baloney1011!