Perfect score is not the only criteria for getting admission into a reputed college now, but of late Facebook too has become an important selection tool.
Four out of five college admissions officers use Facebook to recruit students, according to last year’s survey by Kaplan Test Prep.
“We found that 82 per cent of admissions officers reported that their school is using Facebook to recruit students,” Russell Schaffer, Kaplan’s senior communication manager, said.
The website StudentAdvisor reports at least one case of an applicant being rejected because of something in his or her social media profile.
And one interviewer has said she is “absolutely” prejudiced by what she sees online about candidates.
“I think it’s always better to be safe than sorry,” Allison Otis, who conducts interviews for Harvard College, posted in a thread on the website Quora.
“When you apply to college you spend such a long time crafting an image through your applications and essays that to be careless about your online data is just silly”.
Otis said she regularly searches Google for students’ names and looks through their Facebook and Twitter profiles.
—PTI
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...helps in catching thief
Houston: After making a name in catching up friends online, Facebook has now helped in apprehending a thief at a shopping mall near Massachusetts.
Swansea Police said 25-year-old Daniel Boyce has been charged with stealing money from the Regal Cinemas at the Swansea Mall.
The surveillance camera caught the youth stealing money from the register when it was left unattended.
The theatre clerk, however, helped the police find the suspect. He was able to match the surveillance photos with the alleged ones he found on Facebook account of the thief.
The police were then able to find Boyce and arrest him.
He was arraigned on Friday morning and held on $1,000 cash bail. —PTI