Anonymous wrote:Forgive me if this is a dumb question, I'm from the 1900s...

My rising junior doesn't have any social media accounts. She's plenty social, but this was a decision she made back in 8th grade when she saw other girls attached to their phones, and now she's kind of hung onto the choice out of principle. But her older sibling who just went through the college search is telling her that she *needs* an Instagram account so that she can follow other university pages and that Admissions Offices keep track of that kind of thing. I can't tell if big sister is just fearmongering or does her warning have some merit?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

There are programs that do this.

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.

You are clueless. Stop speaking about something you know nothing about.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/business/college-tuition-price-consultants.html

Anonymous wrote:You guys are grossly naive if you don't believe colleges track online interactions. They track what emails you have opened up from the school on down the line.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

There are programs that do this.

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.

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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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

There are programs that do this.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

There are programs that do this.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

There are programs that do this.

Anonymous wrote:You guys are grossly naive if you don't believe colleges track online interactions. They track what emails you have opened up from the school on down the line.