curtins Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 my freind sed that his sister's school where she teaches at had a big thing about how colleges check pppls myspace and then if theres bad stuff on it they wont let them in or something is that true? i cant imagine a college imploying people to 1st to find a perssons myspace and then to sit there and read it and were talking thousands of applicants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 That seems like someone imagination ran away with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarf Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 I totally wish they would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Yeah... that's where all the tuition is going... hiring people to read internet stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC4Life Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 yes it is true, his friend hes refering to is me my sister is the student specialist at a prep school, and the hole school administation are telling the kids to get rid of them, because when they apply for college and say what their interests are, etc, they will see what type of comments and blogs, etc, and when they read "yeah the party was great last night, i got totally drunk" or when they see a gilrs pre-porn site, they say "well this kid is obviously lying" and they will reject that student. ill talk more to my sister, since probably some of you think your right about every little thing and cant accept facts that you dont hear first *cough* curtins *cough* and ill let the rest of you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC4Life Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 (edited) [quote]That seems like someone imagination ran away with them.[/quote] [quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Nov 18 2005, 07:48 PM']Yeah... that's where all the tuition is going... hiring people to read internet stuff... [right][snapback]794681[/snapback][/right] [/quote] like these 2 kids Edited November 18, 2005 by BC4Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T-Bone Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 [quote name='BC4Life' date='Nov 18 2005, 04:51 PM']yes it is true, his friend hes refering to is me my sister is the student specialist at a prep school, and the hole school administation are telling the kids to get rid of them, because when they apply for college and say what their interests are, etc, they will see what type of comments and blogs, etc, and when they read "yeah the party was great last night, i got totally drunk" or when they see a gilrs pre-porn site, they say "well this kid is obviously lying" and they will reject that student. ill talk more to my sister, since probably some of you think your right about every little thing and cant accept facts that you dont hear first *cough* curtins *cough* and ill let the rest of you know. [right][snapback]794686[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Yeah, that's a good way to get sued. There's a bunch of people with the same name out there. If they got the wrong person, then they would be liable on several different levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarf Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 I considered applying to John Hopkins, and they actually had a field in their Common Application add-on for a URL of the student's website. I felt dismayed that Dartmouth didn't do the same thing, because in high school I spent my time online instead of studying, building a website that had little traffic (except for a few thousand hits from the Stigmata movie board). But it was a microcosm of all things Seth. If they looked at it, it would have been a third dimension to the flat paper application of mine they saw. But, it's a double-edged sword. A forum like Myspace shows what students are like without the leering eye of teacher's proof-reading. If you have a 750 SAT Verbal but talk about your boy crazes as if your keyboard had keys that only output "lol idk w/e", you should be accountable for that. I know kids with 1550s who have the personality of SmarterChild, and those are exactly what colleges desire and are entitled to avoid. As for there being mistaken identity, I'm sure colleges are smarter than that. It'd be far too easy to track IP addresses and affirm geographical location and such, so the chances of two Jim Egal coming from the same ISP and both applying to the same school is negligible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtins Posted November 19, 2005 Author Share Posted November 19, 2005 it just seems unrational and illogical that colleges would actually do that for all of their applicants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarf Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 I doubt this is IU we're talking about here. I'd assume this is a competitive school thing, where every edge possible matters. So, I find it reassuring and regret that I missed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 myspace is junk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtins Posted November 19, 2005 Author Share Posted November 19, 2005 I second that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarf Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 Deep in the corners of a Cambridge, MA office... Jeeves, this kid has a 4.0, 1600, built his own computer out of chicken wire and a flashlight. And he has a myspace account. -You know the drill. Put him with the rest of the wait-listed. Oh, myspace? Rejection. Definitely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 [quote name='Snarf' date='Nov 18 2005, 06:16 PM']in high school I spent my time online instead of studying, building a website that had little traffic (except for a few thousand hits from the Stigmata movie board). But it was a microcosm of all things Seth. If they looked at it, it would have been a third dimension to the flat paper application of mine they saw. [right][snapback]794704[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I used to have a website when I was in high school... i since took it down. don't worry, if you went to Hopkins you wouldn't have time for Myspace.. you'd be walking around Baltimore with your nose in your quantum physics textbook all day. seriously, I've worked in an admissions office for a REALLY small college and they don't check myspaces... I don't even think the old fluffy air extractions who work there even know what myspace is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toledo_jesus Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 haha. yeah I would not worry about this. Even if it's true maybe it will just be incentive to keep MySpace clean... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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