Colleges Monitoring Social Media to Learn more about people applying

College Monitoring Applicant's Social Media

        An applicant to Bowdoin College in Brunswick was surprised to learn that the college she was applying for had been monitoring her social media to learn more about her. They do this to try and see if you've been rude or mean online or if you've used drugs and other bad substances to try and look cool on social media. They watch this to see if any applicants are secretly worse than what the college would want to accept.

What things surprised me personally

        I didn't understand why people would do dumb things on social media and expect that people wouldn't check it. I was also surprised that the colleges would have the time to check social media at all with all the applicants that they would have to see and review. I don't think people should think of it as an invasion of privacy because its being posted to the public online. This shouldn't be an issue if you keep private accounts on social media or if you simply watch what you post so people accepting your applications to possible jobs, schools, or colleges won't be put off if they try to check on you online.

Things I didn't expect

        I didn't think that the colleges would have time to monitor peoples social networks with all of the thousands of applications they get. I think people should've been more aware of who could see what they do online and I was surprised some didn't. People didn't think that they're other actions along with their GPA could effect they're chances which I assumed they would already know.

        This article proves that you need to be careful on the internet. It can effect things as big as jobs and getting into colleges. So people should start watching what they do on the internet more so they don't mess up these kinds of opportunities.