Technological Drowning
process because if admission committees are unsure about a student they will search them so they can make an educated guess. The executive director of K-12 and college prep programs at Kaplan Test Prep, Christine Brown said, �Students� social media and digital footprint can sometimes play a role in the admissions process. It�s something that is becoming more ubiquitous and less looked down upon.� If colleges find possibly troublesome things online they are likely not to tell the student that said or did it. �As students� use of social media is growing, there�s a whole variety of ways that college admissions officers can use it,� Beth Wiser, the director of admissions at the University of Vermont said in an interview. In her opinion she is absolutely right. People are too lenient on what is out in the open. Why put so much out there when the future of students is relying on being accepted?
Approximately 29 percent looked on Facebook as part of their applicant-review process. Approximately 38 percent of those doing so in 2013 compared with approximately 12 percent in 2011 found material that negatively impacted their view of a student. Although, 29 percent is not a large percent, it is growing at an increased rate. However, there are a lot of people finding negative material. In only two years the amount of students denied acceptance has increased by 26 percent These numbers are not very large but they are growing rapidly, if they grew 26 percent in two years by, 2015 these number will be nearly 55 percent. However this will not happen because Facebook is already growing unpopular with teenagers, because their parents are on it so it is not as kid based as it was three years ago.
In conclusion, the answer to my question, why? College admittance uses old Facebook posts from before the age of parents on Facebook because they get to know the person when they were younger and predict what they will be like in the future. Also they get more information about who the prospective student really is like outside of their college essay. Colleges do care about what high schoolers are doing on Facebook. High schoolers are too open with their profiles, Americans need to be more aware of what students are doing online and how to use the internet more wisely.
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Conclusion updated: May 28,2014
Writing this page has been an exciting project. First I had to find several resources to pull information from that was by far the hardest. Then I started writing after several very rough, rough drafts, I thought it was finally ready. I chose this topic because as a high school student my biggest concern right now is how am I going to get into college? And am I doing it right? I also chose this because it interests me and that is probable the main reason why I chose it. I think that my opinion changed slightly as I was researching, my opinion did not change drastically it only got more focused. This happened when I was talking to a friend who had just decided to apply to her dream college. I shared what I had learned with her and she changed all of her privacy settings and even her name on Facebook so that it would be a lot harder to find out information. My opinion before I told her these things was �when applying for colleges you should go through and clear out everything that could harm your chances� but after talking to her and seeing that she got accepted I changed to �when applying for colleges you should go and clean up your profile but you do not need to change your whole profile� I changed to this because colleges need to see the real person not the perfect student and person in the words of Hannah Montana �Nobody�s perfect�. If you try to hard to change your whole Facebook you look fake people know how to spot fake people. I did not discover any other resources that I did not use in my post.
-Maddie
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