<p>On another post, on a list of things to do to "show interest," someone said, "visit the admission portal frequently." What does that mean, exactly? Does, say, Bucknell track the IPs of computers that visit their website? Or do you sign up and log in and then they know you visited?</p>
<p>They do not need to figure out whether the IP is yours. They can just record the dates and frequency of you logging in to see how often you are checking, if they use that as a measure of “level of interest”.</p>
<p>Lehigh reportedly does that: <a href=“http://articles.philly.com/2013-04-01/news/38165511_1_admissions-placement-courses-high-school-students”>Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes;
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<p>Logging into the portal is very different from visiting the website. Yes, some schools that care about their acceptance rate do probably look at those portal access stats.</p>
<p>But the website visitor tracking suggestion is not practical. It’s technically possible for schools to track visitors to their websites, and trace IP addresses back, etc. But it’s a hugely complex undertaking (I know what I’m talking about), and quite expensive. No college can justify the time and cost of this sort of thing.</p>
<p>Visiting the campus, requesting info on the website, going to a college fair, meeting with the rep at your high school, doing an on campus or alumni interview are other ways to show interest. I would think that logging in may also be good but not just visiting the website.</p>
<p>Maybe its different, but many schools DO do data mining and track log ins.</p>
<p>Thanks–I’m not so much worried about how to show the love, but just curious about how things are tracked, because I’m interested in tech issues. He’ll visit, and interview if offered, but we are in a small town–there aren’t reps or college fairs with the colleges we are looking at.</p>
<p>I was just fascinated at the idea that IP’s might be tracked, etc… </p>
<p>I’m not sure I understand about the admissions portal–why would you go there a lot? If you’ve turned in all your stuff and you know what date acceptances will be sent/emailed, what do you go to the admissions portal to DO?</p>
<p>What would be a realistic way of monitoring page visits, though? Writing a program that tallies up the visit count next to someone’s application just seems weird.</p>
<p>@usernamelm I’ve already been accepted to a college and still visit the admission portal every other day or so knowing darn well that nothing’s gonna change from the last time. I’m the kid in this video when I log in…
<a href=“The Indcredibles "Something Amazing I Guess" Clip - YouTube”>The Indcredibles "Something Amazing I Guess" Clip - YouTube;
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<p>If the college wants to track that as a means of checking “level of applicant’s interest”, it is a rather trivial programming problem to record each applicant’s login and then make it available to whatever the admissions readers have access to in the application system.</p>
<p>It would not be surprising if “level of applicant’s interest” were also used in determining scholarships. So if there is a button to click to check your financial aid or scholarships, you may want to be sure to go there each time you visit the portal to indicate interest in that.</p>
<p>My D was told by her admissions rep from Rochester that they do look at how many times you log into your ‘MyRoc’ account. Students can watch their application go through the various stages of readers, committee, etc. She delegated the job to me, so about once a week I logged into her account. I have more free time than she does!</p>
<p>I would be surprised if most schools placed much stake in this. Stay focused on the more important parts of college admissions and dont get dragged down by speculation for small things like this!</p>
<p>My DD has received postcards with personalized URLs e.g., Potentialcollege.edu/bopperdaughter, so they can definitely track those. I log in for her so if later she is really interested it will show previous interest.</p>