Should College Students Be Allowed In Public Schools?

Going into my junior year also means going into the year of college preparation. Part of that preparation includes tightening up the security on all of my social media accounts, even deleting some of them. As it is a very apparent fact that the universities I research online are going to look me up too. Although this idea of college admission officers basically stalking me on the Internet is quite frightening, I don’t blame them. Wherever I end up is most likely where I'm going to stay for four years and would continue to represent them as an alumna. While students deserve to have their social lives to be private, whatever they display online without taking security precaution should be free for college admission officers to view, which they should as the
When looking into prospective students, admission officers should highly consider looking them up online, as they will be spending their next two to four years on the campus that they will have to represent. Even after that, people continue to hold value to where they studied at for the rest of their lives. In 2016, 40% of admission officers visited prospective students’ social media pages, but that number should really be 100% (Mulhere). The 40% who already looked up applicants do so, “to protect their school, its reputation, and to avoid potential bad apples from spoiling their brand,” (Davich). The students who attend these schools are the examples for future classes to look at and if they see people who aren’t up to their standards, they are going to look someplace else. Teens know that their “Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter persona reflects on their actual personality,” and schools should know that too (Mulhere). No one wants to end up somewhere where rapists, pranksters, and delinquents go to either. Peeking into online profiles can reveal just a little more into the character of potential