College Applicants, Beware: Your Facebook Page Is Showing (excerpts taken from The Wall Street Journal)


** A survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social-networking sites to evaluate applicants. 

** 38% said that what they saw "negatively affected" their view of the applicant.

** Some admissions officers said they had rejected students because of material on the sites.

** 21% of colleges used social-networking sites for recruiting prospects and gathering information about applicants.

****REMEMBER:  BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING****

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