Digital Footprint & College Admissions




As a school community there has been a significant amount of time and emphasis encouraging students to be smart about your digital footprint - the information that you are posting and sharing through various social media outlets.  As a component of that we have often mentioned that the internet and social media can impact your college admissions or scholarship offerings.  Below are a few articles that speak to this:
Do colleges look at prospective students’ social media?


Colleges shift to using ‘big data’ – including social media– in admissions decisions


How Social Media can Ruin Your Application


College admissions: Social Media Tune Up


Colleges are spying on applicants by quietly tracking them across the internet  
  (Please note that this article is not specific to social media, but rather how colleges are looking at your level of interest in their school based upon internet related data.)

No matter what grade you are in, this is the perfect time to pause and critically look at your digital footprint and consider what it is saying about you and the impression you are giving to future college admissions officers, scholarship committee members, and potential employers.  Please make smart choices about what you post online!

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