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Clean up your digital trail, already
BridgeTower Media Newswires//October 26, 2011//
Listen to this articleApparently, law school admissions folks are pretty nosy.
A survey from Kaplan Test Prep found that 41 percent of law school admissions officers use Google to dig up dirt on applicants. That’s compared to 27 percent of their business school counterparts and 20 percent of people handling undergraduate college admissions.
Beyond Google, 37 percent of admissions folks deciding whether a student is worthy of entering their law school also check up on applicants through Facebook or other social media sites (hint: that’s where those privacy controls come in handy.)
Even worse is that when completing these searches, admissions staff find more damaging details about applicants to law school than they do for applicants to any other type of educational institution, such as business school or undergrad.
Best to clean up your digital trail, dear applicants. At a minimum, make your social media accounts accessible to friends, otherwise that high LSAT score might not cancel out photos of you doing (insert absurd/illegal action here).
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