How in-depth do adcoms look at your online presence?

[avhu10]

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[KnightDoc]

Who knows? Answering this accurately would require knowing whether every adcom at every school you applied to would bother to look, whether they'd find it, and then how they'd react.

The odds are low any single thing would lower your chances to receive an II. OTOH, you should assume every single thing you have ever posted online will be seen be everyone who will be in a position to judge you for the rest of your life, and you should be guided accordingly. The simple fact is that you have no way to know who is going to see what, or what is going to rub someone the wrong way.

 

[Goro]

Admission committee members do not waste their time by looking on the internet for the online presence of applicants.

This would be the job of the admissions Deans staff, after one has been accepted. This is all part of doing due diligence.

We can't fully answer your question, without knowing what you wrote, but I think that As long as you were professional, you'll be fine.

 

[JimKimSlim]

Yeah, this is a question you should worry about AFTER you get an acceptance or WL. As Goro said, why would members of admissions committee waste time searching through thousands of applicants online and spot that one post where you were vulgar.

 

[KnightDoc]

Yeah, this is a question you should worry about AFTER you get an acceptance or WL. As Goro said, why would members of admissions committee waste time searching through thousands of applicants online and spot that one post where you were vulgar.

Because .. if one is going to have to worry about something later, there is no reason not to start worrying about it now. Saying nobody will care is one thing. Saying they will only care post-II, or pre or post A, is not exactly reassuring if it's a potential problem!!!

This isn't that different from saying don't worry about not disclosing IAs or criminal records, since they too will only be checked post acceptance. I'm not saying this needs to be disclosed, but it certainly seems worth worrying about if it presents a potential issue down the road.

 

[JimKimSlim]

Because .. if one is going to have to worry about something later, there is no reason not to start worrying about it now. Saying nobody will care is one thing. Saying they will only care post-II, or pre or post A, is not exactly reassuring if it's a potential problem!!!

This isn't that different from saying don't worry about not disclosing IAs or criminal records, since they too will only be checked post acceptance. I'm not saying this needs to be disclosed, but it certainly seems worth worrying about if it presents a potential issue down the road.

I see your first point, but you are REQUIRED to disclose IA and criminal records on AMCAS. If your social media presence is of importance, it’ll be asked on secondary for sure. I see what you mean through the comparison but some susceptible readers might confuse the severity of a Twitter rant to the same as IA and criminal records.

 

[KnightDoc]

I see your first point, but you are REQUIRED to disclose IA and criminal records on AMCAS. If your social media presence is of importance, it’ll be asked on secondary for sure. I see what you mean by the compassion but some susceptible readers might confuse the severity of a Twitter rant to the same as IA and criminal records.

Totally agree. My point has nothing to do with disclosure, and everything to do with being concerned if there is reason to be concerned. Saying something doesn't matter because it won't be looked at until later is just not an answer, because the same could also be said about those disclosure items.

I honestly have no idea whether or not OP has a problem, but my advice would be to try to get the posts removed if possible, and to otherwise not worry about things that cannot be controlled. My point was simply that saying don't worry because no one will check until due diligence is performed later is not really an answer.

 

[stinkycheeseperson]

ou should assume every single thing you have ever posted online will be seen be everyone who will be in a position to judge you for the rest of your life, and you should be guided accordingly.

this includes friends, SOs, family, bosses, patients, your pick up soccer team, your kid's boyfriend's parents...

especially in the age of social media when we're dumb enough to put our real names to things

 

[avhu10]

Thank you everyone for your responses! I asked a couple of people to read my comments on the article and they didn’t think they were unprofessional, I didn’t want to include the link here because I want as few people to see it as possible haha. Thank you again🙂