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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools do track the applicant's online interactions...how and when they visited, how long they stayed on a webpage, webinars attended, etc.

Just keep that in mind for those schools who like to see demonstrated interest.[/quote]
Which schools do this? This would be a somewhat manual process for the AO and outside of attending some webinars, not an accurate or good use of time since they’d have to determine each applicants IP address. [/quote]

There are programs that do this.[/quote]

DP. Some things are easy and legal to track, like social media engagement (assuming kid uses their real name in their account) and email open rate.

How long they spend looking at a webpage is not something that would be tracked at an individual level for each applicant. That’s ridiculous.[/quote]

Idiot moron. Stop spreading misinformation.
Brian Zucker, 68, founder and chief executive of Human Capital Research Corporation, has been competing with EAB and RNL for years. He and his colleagues refer to this real-time data as footprints in the sand.
“It changes minute by minute,” he said. “It’s texts, visits, clicks, opens, number of seconds on a particular webpage using a particular URL, monitoring forms, of which there are many
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Idiot moron? Jesus, calm down. I thought you meant random visitors to the school’s website. There’s no way they’re matching organic traffic to particular individuals.

But if your kid clicks a link from an email or text, then yes, time spent on the landing page can be tracked. [/quote]

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