More College Admissions Officers Are Finding Fewer Red Flags on Applicants’ Facebook Profiles

The bad news for college applicants: More admissions officers than ever are visiting their profiles on Facebook and other social networks. The good news for college applications: Those admissions officers are finding fewer reasons on those profiles to red-flag applicants.

CollegeAdmissionOffice650The bad news for college applicants: More admissions officers than ever are visiting their profiles on Facebook and other social networks. The good news for college applications: Those admissions officers are finding fewer reasons on those profiles to red-flag applicants.

The latest survey of college admissions officers from Kaplan Test Prep found that:

  • 35 percent of respondents visited applicants’ social media pages to learn more about them, marking the highest percentage since Kaplan began tracking this trend in 2008.
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