5 Tips For College Applicants on Data Privacy Day

In honor of Data Privacy Day here are 5 essential tips to ensure your social media accounts and digital life is not used by college admissions officials to reject your application or revoke your offer. 1) Limit Your Public Social Media Profiles Having a robust digital foot print doesn’t give you a leg up during the college admissions process. No college has ever rejected an applicant or revoked an offer because a candidate has a minimal digital foot print. However, many colleges including Harvard have rejected candidates or revoked offers because an applicant’s social media profile contains content that a member of their admissions committee deems inappropriate. 2) Limit Connecting With Your Dream Colleges On Social Media Colleges are encouraging applicants to connect with them via Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, etc. not so you can see how hip and cool the school is but so they can review all of your digital activities to reject you or revoke your offer. Colleges…

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