Social Media and College Admissions: The First Longitudinal Study Conducted by: Nora Ganim Barn es, Ph.D. (nbarnes@umassd.edu) Eric Mattson (eric@ericmattson.com) It's no surprise that social media has changed the landscape of college admissions. The current generation graduating high school...
Social media and college admissionsAs high school seniors across the country send in their college applications, there is growing concern over the impact their social media presence can have on their chances of getting in. Adriana Diaz reports from Dallas on a new study showing that more ...
In 2007, fascinated by the dynamic created by all the new tools and habits of Millennials, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research conducted one of the first statistically-significant studies on the usage of social media by college admission offices. The study explored...
When I wrote my Technophoria column this weekend about how some college admissions officers have occasionally identified social media posts that negatively affected applicants’ chances of acceptance, I assumed the phenomenon would not come as news to the parents of high school students, The New ...
How social media can help with college admissions According to an annual Kaplan survey, more than 33% of admissions officers at the nation’s top 500 colleges found online material that hurt applicant’s chances of admission. Just as social media can be used against you, however, it can also...
Checking Social Media in Admissions for Some but Not Others With the current college admissions process, it is clear that certain factors cause officials to look further than the traditional application elements such as GPA, standardized test scores and extracurricular. But why check the likes of Fa...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.4077980collegeuniversityadmissionssocial mediafacebooktwitterinstagramenrollment managementSocial media is an increasingly important resource for recruiting new students to colleges and universities. This study provides an overview of social media treTaylor, ZW...
Recently, several colleges have made headlines because they’verevoked incoming students’ admission due to their racist social media posts. That’s left lots of high school students wondering about how their Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter posts will affect their college admissions chances....
social media, noting those remarks are visible to schools. his preference is that students follow and thoughtfully interact with college social media accounts. to get started, they may want to consider creating social media accounts specifically for the college admissions process rather than p...
can your college admissions offer be revoked? often, less is more when it comes to posting on social media, he says. some people choose not to have any social media presence at all or a very limited one. but for those who do, sanderlin says it's wise to be selective about what ...