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College Applications Negatively Affected By Facebook Profiles, Study Finds
By Hap LeCrone
| Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 11:18 AM
According to recent survey at 500 colleges by education company Kaplan, 10-percent of the admissions officers headed on over to Facebook and MySpace to see what they could learn about a given candidate. More troubling (at least for those with questionable goods on their profiles) is that 38-percent of those officers said their impressions of the students in question were “negatively affected” after looking at the profiles on Facebook or MySpace, potentially preventing the receipt of a fat admission letter from the school. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE
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