Review over "They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets" by Natasha Singer. New York Times.

This article is about how colleges are starting to look at applicants social media. And that this can affect wether you get in or not. It also talks about how schools are helping students clear there posts that might get them to not be accepted. Some people are not so happy about colleges looking at the posts and think that is going too far.

Some things in this article surprised me. One was the fact that the amount of colleges checking social media is at 30% witch is a 5% increase from last year. I'm surprised that that many people are doing that and soon most colleges will if the trend continues. The second is that some colleges look at people you are friends with and can penalize you because of who they are. It is surprising that they do this because most people accepted all of the friend request they get and it's not there fault that their friends do something that gets them penalized.

A few questions that I had where why the number of colleges checking social media is increasing. What made more people check? Was there some event that made it more acceptable? Also are they allowed to check posts by the first amendment?

This was a very interesting article and I hope you read it and interpret it yourself.

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