There are various factors that colleges consider in the admission decision. Some of the main factors are GPA, Class Rank, SAT and ACT test scores, recommendation letters, essays, and extra-curricular activities. Recently some colleges have been looking at students social media content from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites.
Should colleges consider what is on social media? Should a student's personal life be a determining factor for college admission? Explain in detail why or why not?
Here is an interesting article: "How To Clean Up Your Social Media For College Applications"
In my opinion, colleges shouldn't have the right to consider what's on the social media. What stays on a social networking, should be able to stay. If a student are dealing with some personal problems, it's probably not going to halt them from applying to college and getting accepted. They have to move forward.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I think colleges should have the right to consider what's on the social media. I say this because you would never know what a person might do again because what they did in the pass they can always do the same thing again. Also I say this because you don't want to bring any negative activities in a college. If students do have bad things on a social media they should try and delete it because if its bad the admission officers will not accept you into college. Another thing if a student is dealing with problems they should talk to a counselor because you would not want that to affect you into getting into college.
ReplyDeleteI think that colleges shouldn’t consider what’s on media site to be part of the admission decision. What’s posted on media site are for the media to see not college advisers. The media sites are for people to express their self and their feelings so no college has the right to judge someone base on how they’re feeling .A person personal life shouldn’t be the reason why they didn’t go to college. Yes people make mistakes every now and then but they also do well, because a person look bad doesn't really mean they are. A person may have a bad background but that same person making A’s and B’s.
ReplyDeleteI feel that a personal life should stay a personal life. Determination of getting into college shouldn't be based on personal business like social medias and etc. Getting into college should only be purposed on GPA, Class Rank, SAT and ACT test scores, recommendation letters, essays, and extra-curricular activities. A personal life should stay a personal life. If being qualified to go to college has anything to do with social medias; hardly anyone would be in there. Personal lives shouldn't be disrupted by anyone. Only if a person has a bad criminal background and wants to go to college. So, if going to college requires a criminal background check then, yes colleges should make that a requirement.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, college shouldn't have the right to invade in students personal space.Even though the student may have post something in the past that was derrogative, it shouldn't effect students from going to college.The only time when the college administrator has to invade in the students profile if the student commit a serious crime.
ReplyDeleteI personally think that college admission officers should look at a student's personal life because some students may have criminal records, charges, and posts on social networks about negative things. But when a student is getting ready to do a college application, the student should clean up their social network accounts before doing the applications because colleges do look at what the student is posting or has posted on their social network accounts and if the posts are negative or were negative, there is a possibility that the college a student applied for may not accept the student into the college.
ReplyDeleteColleges should not consider what is on social media because media is media you cant change what happens on the media or whats posted on the media whats on the media should stay there even though most of the time it doesnt. A student could come to class make all A's and B's and deal with there soical media later then there could be a drama student who brings everything from the media to class so it works two ways. In a way college should'nt consider whats on socal media then in another case it should because in a situation when there's a person threating to kill a student on campus or if they plan to come and fight a student on campus yes they should consider whats on social media then but with their personal issues no. A students life should not be a determining factor for a college admission because everybody is goin be themselves regardless, what goes on in a student life has nothing to deal with school everyone has to live there personal life outside of school regardless the situations so to me whatever goes on in someone life let them deal with it it's not nobody elses business.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, colleges should not consider what's on a students social websites. What people post on Instagram, Facebook, etc. should not be a factor in acceptance into college. It should not matter what they post, what should matter is their academics. Personal life and social media should not be able to interfere with whether a person gets accepted into a college or not. Getting into a college should only be based on GPA, class rank, SAT, and other academics.
ReplyDeleteI think that colleges should consider what is on social media site to a certain extent. I don't necessarily think that a student's personal life should be a factor when going to college. Yes, I think that colleges should make sure that these students are harmless, but that doesn't mean you should look at a person's social media profiles and judge whether or not they are good enough for your college because of a few simple tweets or status updates. Colleges have to make sure that students are not criminals, but checking social media wouldn't necessarily tell you that information. Social media should never be taken serious anyway. What a person posts online and how they really act can be two completely different things. Colleges should only use the information found on social media sites if it incriminates a person. If the information they find on these social sites is simple tweets and updates, colleges shouldn't use those as determining factors of college admission.
ReplyDeleteI believe that colleges shouldn't whether or not you get accepted to their college because of whats posted on a media or social website. I believe everyone has a certain way they would like to express themselves and their feelings and social media gives them the chance to do so. If colleges are allowed to check the social websites, more than likely they would judge you on what you post. No-one should be able to judge you based on what you express, especially if it determines whether or not you get accepted to a college or not. in conclusion, i think colleges should stick to the basics when determining what gets you accepted.
ReplyDeleteI honesty think colleges should consider looking at people social sites, look back on past colleges incidents such as Virgina Tech when the student shot alot of students including himself from rage. Looking at social site will give them a clue about yourself. I know they could see if you are quite strange and could potentially cause harm to others.
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DeleteWell , Personally I think that when college officials or personal are looking for college admissions they should not look onto personal websites such as Instagram, Facebook nor Twitter. You cant judge someone academically from what they've posted on the internet , college is about extending your educational , not succeeding in your outward appearance. Never Judge a Book by its cover until you've actually read the book. If social networking was one of the requirements when trying to get accepted to college most of the college students enrolled wouldn't be enrolled.
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