ALERT: 1 In 4 MBA Admissions Offices Probe Facebook

More than one out of every five graduate business school admissions offices visit applicants' social networking accounts to learn more about them.

More than one out of every five graduate business school admissions offices visit applicants’ social networking accounts to learn more about them.

And 14 percent of those who do such research have said they’ve discovered things about a prospective student that negatively impacted their candidacy.

These revelations were nestled in Kaplan Test Prep’s latest annual survey of 265 graduate business school admissions offices.

While this study hardly focused on social media, questions about the topic drew some alarming responses.

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