I feel very strongly about a certain cause that many (especially liberal colleges) will disagree with. I use a fake twitter with no links to my name, email, or phone number. I have replied to many conversations regarding this topic. Will colleges still somehow manage to dig up this account? Should I delete it before I apply to college?
This is college admissions, not a FBI investigation. Colleges aren’t going to dig up your fake social media accounts, unless someone else decides to bring it to their attention.
They will probably find it through your IP address. You should probably delete it, throw away all devices you have used it on and move. Fast.
Your statement then begs the question – why are you applying to colleges that don’t agree with your personal point of view? It seems like those colleges would not be a good fit.
Doubt they’d go to the effort to trace an IP address. For all the thousands of applicants?
OP, hope you’re as worried about matching what your targets need to see in you and how to do that. And, aiming for the right targets.
If this cause is one adults on CC would recoil from, think about how you spend your time. If it’s within the range of normal…get back to the work of applying.
@lookingforward, I was being facetious in my post.
Lol, went right over my head.
Be nice, now.
But seriously, @altecx, that is hardly something to worry about. The type of tweets that can hurt you are generally the type of tweets that you should never have sent in the first place. So, unless you are posting stuff that is actually offensive or a abusive, there is nothing for you to worry about.
If what you have posted IS abusive or offensive, you should delete it, post an apology, and spend some time reflecting on your life choices. Then delete the account.
However, as @ScienceGirlMom asks - why are you applying to colleges who would care about your political activity?
IP Sniffer was actually created by a former admissions officer for this very purpose. There is no such thing as “private” online.
Fwiw, it’s not your ‘fake social media’.
It’s your real social media, with ideas and beliefs that you think are important to publicize, but which you are afraid to own and stand up for publicly, so you hide behind a fake name. The advantage of using a fake name, of course, is that you are then free to be outrageous without facing any consequences for your actions.
From your question on religion and ‘liberal’ schools you appear to misunderstand the use of the word ‘liberal’ in an educational context. NYU really does not care what religion students are, nor do they care what your political views are. There may be individual profs, or even departments at any given university, where there are intellectual orthodoxies (eg, famously, UChicago v Keynsians) that can be seen as more or less ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’, but in general it is the student body that runs more or less ‘liberal’ in the social sense. The biggest surprise of becoming a grad student and then faculty was discovering just how uninterested universities and faculties are in the personal lives and beliefs of their undergrads (not withstanding all that marketing effort).
Fwiw, Chinese student’s political views* are deeply antithetical to those of both ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ US colleges and universities. Yet, those same students are made very welcome.
*to the extent that they express them publicly: the expectations of the Chinese government of Chinese students abroad is explicit, and students who don’t comply are brought home.