Twitter and College Admissions

Twitter and College Admissions January 25, 2012 Twitter and college admissions can be like oil and vinegar. For college applicants, wed like to stress again if we havent nailed it into your heads already that you should be mindful of what you write on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets. While not all college admissions officers check the Facebook pages or Twitter accounts of applicants, some do. So what you post can indeed matter. It can even mean the difference between an acceptance and a denial. Ones Tweets can jeopardize ones college admissions decisions. In the case of Yuri Wright, a football player out of Don Bosco High School and the 40th-ranked player on the ESPNU 150, his Tweets ended up getting him expelled from his high school. And his expulsion is of course jeopardizing his college admissions decisions. The University of Michigan, for instance, was heavily recruiting Wright. Not anymore. According to Wrights high school football coach as reported by ESPN, We told them about 10 or 15 times to get off (Twitter) and not to be involved in it, but there is always somebody who thinks he knows betterWhat he wrote was pretty bad, to be honest with you, I cant even say what he wrote. Take a lesson from Yuri Wright. Dont post anything you wouldnt want a college admissions officer to read. You have to just assume theyll be perusing your social media pages. For more information on social media and college admissions, check out this post on Facebook and College Admissions.