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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This ridiculous thread is a perfect illustration of the paranoia that comes with college admissions.

Any of you who honestly think that colleges  tracking your kids Instagram accounts is going to make any difference when it comes to their admission have truly lost your marbles. It’s all about grades, test, scores, and extracurricular activities. That’s it. What the hell is wrong with you? You’re a bunch of obsessed weirdos[/quote]
While I think the instagram angle is a can of worms, colleges do incorporate click data into their yield algorithms. This is what the multibillion dollar enrollment management industry hath wrought. See, e.g., https://www.scu.edu/admission/choosing-scu/scu-admission-blog/authors/eryn/9-ways-to-demonstrate-interest-virtually.html ("6. Open emails from colleges! Click the links that you’re genuinely interested in. Some schools do track these behaviors. 7. Do your own research on social media and online! ...And, of course, if you do any of this exploring, tell us which pages, conversations, videos, or posts you liked and why!")[/quote]

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