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E-PrinceCalling all seniors: It may be time to clean up your facebook.com profiles. According to a survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep between June and August, 15 percent of law school admissions officers and 10 percent of undergraduate admissions ...(back to the article)
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i believe that graduate schools choosing to view a student's facebook profile to "judge their character" is a complete invasion of a student's privacy. their facebook page should have no effect on their admission status. it is page for social not academic networking. some students use facebook to maintain long distance friendships with people from home. how can students feel comfortable talking to friends online if they are being judge by grad schools?
To respond to the comment below, I agree with what you said- "how can students feel comfortable talking to friends..." It is definitely sad that people have to be worrying about these things on Facebook. But nevertheless I don't see what you propose to do about it - your comment seems more of a complaint than a logical argument. Why should grad schools not be allowed to see something that you made public? That's what it means to make information public, after all. Imagine you are a grad school admissions officer who sees something very compromising on someone's Facebook page- would you pretend to have not seen it just because it is morally in "invasion of privacy"?. Of course not- it is your job and your responsibility to make the best decisions, so you would be obligated to take it into account. In my opinion it is also not at all morally unacceptable to do so since the student has chosen to make the information public, but that is beside my point- I think it is the admission officer's job and so they should do it well.
So, shouldn't the title of this article be "professional schools consult Facebook"? I don't see anything here about Ph.D. programs or any graduate study besides medical, law, and business, the big three professional degrees.