{"id":2755,"date":"2018-12-10T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2018-12-07T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:58:25","slug":"survey-admission-professionals-sound-off-about-social-media-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/12\/10\/survey-admission-professionals-sound-off-about-social-media-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Admission Professionals Sound Off About Social Media Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cYou know, colleges can see that. You really should watch what you post.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a common refrain from parents and teachers throughout the college admission process, but are admission officers actually checking social media?<\/p>\n

A new survey by Kaplan Test Prep<\/a> found that just 25 percent of college admission officers check the social media accounts of prospective students, down from a high of 40 percent in 2015.<\/p>\n

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There also seems to be a shift in admission officers\u2019 attitudes about checking social media. About 57 percent of survey respondents said social media is \u201cfair game\u201d in determining admission, a drop from 68 percent in the 2017 survey.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless it\u2019s a matter of checking on something that might be a hate crime or endangering other people, then it becomes a safety issue, but otherwise it\u2019s a privacy issue,\u201d one respondent told Kaplan.<\/p>\n

This issue came to a head in 2017 when at least 10 students had their admission offers rescinded by Harvard University<\/a> due to sexually explicit and racist memes they posted in a private Facebook group chat.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnline expression is really just a matter of common sense: One should never assume that pictures, posts, comments, etc. are anonymous, private, or will just \u201cgo away;\u201d and (especially for prospective students or job applicants) don\u2019t put anything out there that you wouldn\u2019t want an admission committee or prospective employer to see,\u201d Timothy Brunold, a NACAC member and USC\u2019s dean of admission, told NACAC last year.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that all people have a right to express themselves, but that right comes with responsibilities and an implicit willingness to accept the potential consequences that might result.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems most students are ready and willing to accept these consequences. In a separate Kaplan study, 70 percent of students said they believe it\u2019s \u201cfair game\u201d for admission officers to check their social media accounts.<\/p>\n

Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou know, colleges can see that. You really should watch what you post.\u201d It\u2019s a common refrain from parents and teachers throughout the college admission process, but are admission officers actually checking social media? A new survey by Kaplan Test Prep found that just 25 percent of college admission officers check the social media accounts … Continue reading Survey: Admission Professionals Sound Off About Social Media Checks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Ir","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}