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Carnival of College Admission–Turkey Edition

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Welcome to the 5th Edition of the Carnival of College Admission. As promised, and in commemoration of the America’s Holiday, we offer the “Turkey Edition.” Today you’ll learn all sorts of fun facts about turkeys that you can share with your friends around the dinner table tomorrow. So not only will you [...]

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Warning: Your Facebook and MySpace Pages May Be Monitored

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

News from today’s Inside Higher Ed indicates that campuses are considering scouring students’ Facebook and MySpace pages for potentially harmful material, including drug references, foul language, and anything else that may hurt a college’s reputation.
Of course, the new technologies (including a product called YouDiligence, which is described in this story) that colleges may acquire to [...]

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Warning: FaceBook and MySpace Pages are Read by Admissions Counselors

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

A recent article in the Dayton Daily News points to studies that indicate more and more college admissions counselors are checking out applicants’ Facebook and MySpace pages. Most kids think that their profiles are somehow super-secret and only privy to their “friends.” Some of the posted photos and writing are innocuous enough, [...]

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