Its true
"We don't systematically Google applicants or look up people on Facebook," says Lisa Beisser, senior associate director of MBA admissions at North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. "But if something strange comes up in an applicant's essay, we will check a Facebook page."
Stanford's Graduate School of Business also lacks a "specific policy or procedure to systematically review the social media sites of each applicant," according to a spokesperson. But "if something like this were brought to an admissions officer's attention, it would be dealt with on a case-by-case basis just as all the information we have on any given candidate is," the Stanford official says.
According to a survey by education company Kaplan, a unit of Washington Post Co., 38% of colleges that investigate social networking profiles have seen something that has "negatively affected" their view of an applicant. Only a quarter of the schools checking online presence said their views were improved by what the found, according to the survey.
However I have a very interesting theory. Clean yourself if you are going to church, anyways you are going there for the cleaning. Create a positive footprint for yourself on web. A award pic will not let you in but dont let them be confused and give them a chance to reject you.
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