Social Networking Could Get Your Graduate School Application Rejected

By Jason Boog 

Thinking about applying to a creative writing programs or graduate school? Start cleaning up your Facebook page and Twitter feed immediately!

In May, Kaplan Test Prep conducted telephone interviews with graduate school admissions officers from 123 schools on U.S. News & World Report‘s list of the top 200 graduate programs. A dramatic percentage of admissions officers said social networking could actually hurt your application.

Here’s more from our sibling blog, AllFacebook: “Admissions officers were asked if they felt that it was appropriate for students to use social networks such as Facebook to reach out to graduate schools, and 65 percent responded that doing so would be inappropriate. In addition, 29 percent of the admissions officers who were permitted to visit applicants’ social networking pages rejected applicants due to content found on those pages.”