Colleges look at social media

Colleges start to check social media accounts

I recently read a article about the affect of your social media on your chance of getting into college. This article talks about how many colleges are starting to look at your social media accounts before letting you into their college. Many high school seniors work very hard to get applications done to colleges they want to attend and try to get their GPA up so that they will look better but they don't think about the fact that their social media accounts could ruin their chances. The things people do on their social media accounts can very easily affect their chance of acceptance to college especially if the college has lots of applicants and can afford to be choosey.

 What I found out may surprise you

The practice of checking an applicants social media is not routine at most colleges but is still always a possibility and can affect anyone. Many high school students are starting to clean pup their social media so that they will look better for colleges and arguing that this is no different then the efforts they already make to look better for college application. Many people might think that college admission officers are old but many are young and know how to use technology just as well as teens.

But what do we still not know

Even with lots of information given to us by this article there is still lots of information that we still have yet to find out about how colleges can use you social media accounts when look at accepting you to their college. Any online comment, picture, or any post could tamper your chance of acceptance to the college. Another surprising thing is that when looking at your social media the colleges do not nee to tell you that they looked at it. You could get denied by a college with no explanation for why.

What i will do about it 

I do not plan on changing my social media use at all with the information i have found. The reason for this is not that I don't think of this a important or something that wont affect me but i have know this information and already think about it when using social media. If I had not previously known this then i would be more careful about what I post and making sure that i think through what i am going to post before I post it.