Law Schools Scrutinizing Applicants' Social Media Posts
More than half of law school admissions officials check on the social media pages of applicants, and what they find can lead straight to the rejection pile.
October 03, 2018 at 05:59 AM
3 minute read
If you want to get into law school, better not post that video of your underage self shot-gunning a beer to your Facebook page. And while you're at it, leave your obsession with actual shot guns off your Twitter account.
It turns out that more than half of law school admissions officials recently surveyed by Kaplan Test Prep—56 percent—said they have looked at the applicants' social media to get a better sense of them. And fully 91 percent said that social media is fair game when culling through applications.
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