Toning Down the Tweets Just in Case Colleges Pry

<p>"... Of the 403 undergraduate admissions officers who were polled by telephone over the summer, 35 percent said they had visited an applicant’s social media page — a 9 percentage point increase compared with 2012. But only 16 percent of them said they had discovered information online that had hurt a student’s application — compared with 35 percent in 2012." ...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/technology/college-applicants-sanitize-online-profiles-as-college-pry.html?_r=0"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/technology/college-applicants-sanitize-online-profiles-as-college-pry.html?_r=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>