Applying To College? Mind Your Facebook Page
It's not just admissions officers for graduate business schools that are probing applicants' social media accounts: A new survey from Kaplan Test Prep found that 24 percent of undergraduate admissions officers have poked around in a similar fashion.
It’s not just admissions officers for graduate business schools that are probing applicants’ social media accounts: A new survey from Kaplan Test Prep found that 24 percent of undergraduate admissions officers have poked around in a similar fashion.
That 24 percent figure was up from 10 percent in 2008, when Kaplan first began tracking the tracking of applicant’s social networking sites. The test-prep firm added that 20 percent of undergraduate admissions officers have also Googled applicants.
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