A2Z 19: Will Admissions Check My Social Media?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
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00:10 Social media in admissions
00:32 Professor Margaret Hannon
01:27 What is likely to happen
01:56 Worst case scenarios - and what should happen
03:08 What could go wrong
03:39 Employers will check your social media
04:20 Make accounts private and other advice
04:58 How would admissions find out about your social media?
07:03 Other people will let the admissions office know
08:35 Don't worry about political points-of-view
09:22 LinkedIn
09:55 Are admissions offices talking to each other?
11:44 Reddit
13:05 Punctuation and quotation marks
"I think keg stands are fine" - Dean Z
I stand by this. As it were.
Does Dean Z read the applications of every person accepted or considering to be accepted to UMich Law?
Thank you for always raging against the Grammarly machine and reminding people how and why knowing grammar is important. I refuse to let an app tell me it know how to write better than I do. Glad to have an ally in the good fight.
Dustin, please, I'm going to need you to link the Dean Z meme.
Thanks for taking on a controversial issue and giving your 'hot take' off the record comments. I, for one, am happy that my section was not filled with grade grubbers. I'm sure Harvard admissions officers don't just build a class of 180 LSAT scores and 4.0 GPA's. Since race is no longer an imputed value, applicants must find a way to distinguish themselves from others. 💙💛
How do admission committees judge cancelled LSAT scores? I’ve read multiple perspectives on Reddit, but wanted to know, from your perspective, if cancelling a score should be avoided at all costs or if an addendum should be written to explain your circumstances.
NBD; actually, it’s just nothing at all. A pattern of cancellations, tho, is worth explaining.
This is so insightful, as always. Thank you, Dean Z!!
Excellent advice about the LinkedIn portion. Though, I will say that as a non-traditional applicant, I had to cut some stuff out of my resume. Though, I don't think it's a big deal because my more important activities are listed on my resume. I think having to choose what to include is more a benefit really.
I do have a question though: As a nontraditional applicant who has to be more selective of what to include on my resume, the volunteer/extracurricular activities I have listed range between 4 years. Is this an issue or should it be recent activities only? Some of those volunteer/extracurricular activities are quite substantive and impactful, such as interviewing a Congressman and being awarded by America's first female 4 star General for hosting a leadership seminar.
I ended up taking one internship off my resume for law school apps, just to keep it nicely within 1 page. The internship was interesting and relevant but I felt I had more important things to highlight.