At least that’s one of the findings of a survey released this week by Cornerstone Reputation, a Somerville, Massachusetts-based firm that found a growing number of college admissions officers turning to the Internet to verify or information or to learn more about college applicants.
The firm’s founder, Carolynn Crabtree — who says her résumé includes a stint as an officer with the CIA — says a key implication of the survey’s findings is for students to be more aware of how what they say or do online could undermine their efforts to get into the college of their choice.
“Once derogatory information is found online, that can often be a strong decision factor in terms of whether a university wants to welcome that student into their own culture because of how they might behave once they go there,” Crabtree told Diverse.
Crabtree, who also has experience conducting alumni admission interviews for applicants to her alma mater, Princeton University, based her remarks on newly released results from her firm’s “Cornerstone Reputation Undergraduate Admissions Survey Report.”
Among other things, the survey found that:
