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Assuming that the content of your profile and your photos is either restricted or tame, does simply having a facebook profile negatively influence your application?
Does having a facebook profile hurt you?
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I highly doubt it. As long as you don't have stupid stuff on it, i guess you're good
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How would they even know, and why would they mind that you have a Facebook account? Maybe I'm not following.....😕
And burgler, why would facebook be similar to breaking the rules in high school?
Unless you're screwing with us. But if not, re-lax. However, NEVER, EVER admit that you sometimes bicycle to school! ever! This was raised in every interview I ever went to and was the cause of all rejections. yeah.
And burgler, why would facebook be similar to breaking the rules in high school?
Unless you're screwing with us. But if not, re-lax. However, NEVER, EVER admit that you sometimes bicycle to school! ever! This was raised in every interview I ever went to and was the cause of all rejections. yeah.
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i hated bicycling to school.and now it'll be held against me.hate that.
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whats wrong with riding a bike.... some kind of joke or something?
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Well having facebook or myspace WILL HURT YOU because you'll be spending so much damn time on them instead if studying, listening in lecture, and or sleeping.
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Be it Facebook, or SDN, everyone should use even a little discretion in what they put up on a public forum. Some admissions committees do browse SDN now and then. I wouldn't be surprised if your interviewer just casually happened to look you up on facebook too just before your interview and I've seen a lot of crazy things people do posted on facebook. Yall have some explainin to do. tsk tsk 
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Woah, this is a joke right? Because I LOVE biking to class. And in Davis, the bike capital of the college world, EVERYONE bikes. One of the reasons why I'd love bing a dentist is because I get to work with my hands and tools. I love working on my 79 Schwinn road bike I found at the dumpster. It was in pretty bad shape but I replaced the tires, took it apart, cleaned, regrease, new grip, new brake cables, and now it's an awesome bike.
But I do drive a pretty nice car too that I love working on.
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Most adcoms are men...that pic might actually help you out...but a video would be even better
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I hardly believe that admission comittees have the time to do the research needed to link an online screen name to an application profile. Sure they may roam around SDN to hear the latest, but I doubt they try to actually pinpoint applicants and reject them because they're seen doing body shots off someone on Facebook.
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I'm just not smart enough I suppose, but I don't understand why you would be looked at differently by adcoms for riding a bike to school. Accordingly, would riding a motor bike, skateboard, or moped be any different? I'm missing the positive correlation between riding a bike to school and being incompetent when it comes to dentistry. Explain...
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Riding a bike to school is not nearly as correlated with competency in dental school as is reading comprehension and the ability to discern the affect and/or true meaning of a written passage...in fact, bike riding is not at all correlated with success in dental school...
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take it easy on the caffeine dude, do you really think dental school professors know about facebook? OK maybe a few of them and even if they do I'm pretty sure that they have other things to find out about their prospective students before checking their "friends" list to see if they are friends with any bad seeds or if they have posted "I hate Dental School" on other people's wall!
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^^^^exactly!!! who the hell cares what you have on facebook...if you can get wasted on occasion, take some stupid pictures, post them on the internet, and still get good scores with a respectable GPA, then why the hell should you not get in. you know for damn sure that those adcom guys (and girls) do it too. i was a bartender at a country club for 2 years, and believe me, those doctors and dentists that well all have come to know as quite the professional....yea, a few beers down and some vodka tonics later....the truth comes out
i have seen quite a few "facebook" worthy encounters! 
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are some of you guys serious? FillingFine was joking (about riding the bike). I was joking. It was a sarcastic comment she extended to make her point...
wow.
wow.
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I went to an informational session at the UF dental school and this question was asked...It was said that they don't keep an eye on facebook but they do occasionally look at SDN...Not sure what they would get out of it but that's what was said..
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Right, but he said this: "i really doubt that adcoms will care at all about having a facebook, its not really high school where if they see you drinking a beer you get suspended."
which I took to mean, "in high school, they'd kick your ass if you did something wrong. So adcoms won't really care if you mess up at this point in your lives." I just didn't follow how facebook could be considered messing up at all.
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Ah ic. I figure as long as you don't have pictures of yourself upside down over a keg with an "I love titties" shirt on you'll be fine.
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If you want to give yourself that false sense of security- go right ahead- post more crazy pictures and comments that would appall the "older generation" adcoms who are deciding whether to admit you. . Everyone likes finding out that the person they were about to admit is two-faced. I KNOW several members of adcoms (mostly those who are paid more and take their job more seriously) who search the applicants assigned to them on Facebook, SDN, Myspace and at their schools' websites. The adcoms at public schools are looking more for GPA and DAT scores and are much less likely to do this- the admission committee is just a small part of their job- but PRIVATE schools pay their adcom members enough to make the "character judgment" and they base this on much more than leadership experience and whatever cliches you put into your personal statement. Their job is a HARD one and they appreciate you making it easier with postings that will impress your friends. The top schools are looking to protect their reputation in more than one way- you'd better believe they go all out to find out "who you really are". Wouldn't you if you were dedicating all day long to finding out WHO that person was behind the personal statement and; they have a computer and internet access right in front of them just like you. Come-on! Why do you think ASDOH suppresses their interview feedback on this forum and UOP won't even look at certain 3.9 23-Dat applicants. Even UCSF has a lot of "inexplicable" rejections. Facebook has gotten so much media attention for busting politicians's relatives for under-age drinking, etc...that more and more schools will be searching you. Oh, and I love the "they can't view unless they are in your network" or calling discretion "paranoia". There is only one way to keep them from viewing your Facebook account and that will take all the fun out of it for you. So please go right ahead posting how much smarter the applicants are than the adcoms or how they are all young single people too, or how they don't take their job seriously- they love to see what people WOULD do if they think they won't get caught- that's called integrity.
. Everyone likes finding out that the person they were about to admit is two-faced. I KNOW several members of adcoms (mostly those who are paid more and take their job more seriously) who search the applicants assigned to them on Facebook, SDN, Myspace and at their schools' websites. The adcoms at public schools are looking more for GPA and DAT scores and are much less likely to do this- the admission committee is just a small part of their job- but PRIVATE schools pay their adcom members enough to make the "character judgment" and they base this on much more than leadership experience and whatever cliches you put into your personal statement. Their job is a HARD one and they appreciate you making it easier with postings that will impress your friends. The top schools are looking to protect their reputation in more than one way- you'd better believe they go all out to find out "who you really are". Wouldn't you if you were dedicating all day long to finding out WHO that person was behind the personal statement and; they have a computer and internet access right in front of them just like you. Come-on! Why do you think ASDOH suppresses their interview feedback on this forum and UOP won't even look at certain 3.9 23-Dat applicants. Even UCSF has a lot of "inexplicable" rejections. Facebook has gotten so much media attention for busting politicians's relatives for under-age drinking, etc...that more and more schools will be searching you. Oh, and I love the "they can't view unless they are in your network" or calling discretion "paranoia". There is only one way to keep them from viewing your Facebook account and that will take all the fun out of it for you. So please go right ahead posting how much smarter the applicants are than the adcoms or how they are all young single people too, or how they don't take their job seriously- they love to see what people WOULD do if they think they won't get caught- that's called integrity.
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ok... whoa... that was a bit intense... hmmm... basically, i dont think that there would be anything wrong with having a fb or myspace page if you are respectable in your main page picture... i mean honestly, just mark it private... i just did random searches of friends who are in comprimising situations on fb and myspace, and nothing came up if you arent their friend... so yall dont friend random people from schools that you are applying to, and dont have a ridic pic on the main page... MARK EVERYTHING PRIVATE!!!
have fun we are in college... my mom is an adcom and honestly has a lot of friends who are as well and those of us who have 3.9's and 26's that dont get in are generally boring and arent people, people...
oh and no frontal nudity... just not a good look
have fun we are in college... my mom is an adcom and honestly has a lot of friends who are as well and those of us who have 3.9's and 26's that dont get in are generally boring and arent people, people...
oh and no frontal nudity... just not a good look
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If you want to give yourself that false sense of security- go right ahead- post more crazy pictures and comments that would appall the "older generation" adcoms who are deciding whether to admit you.
I find three issues with these arguments:
1. The assumption that private and public schools differ so much in their admission selection criteria. (Schools differ from each other, not between public and private.)
2. The assumption that the private schools are "top schools." The whole lack of safety schools in dental education thing has been discussed and proved ad nauseum.
3. The assumption that private schools pay their faculty more than public schools. Don't forget where the money comes from in both situations.
I strongly doubt you have close ties to individual adcom members and that they've disclosed their secret 5-hours-of-Facebook-searching daily that they are apparently able to add to their teaching, clinic, and preclinic educational workloads. Oh, not to mention if they also have their own practices.
Hey, you may be right; it just doesn't seem likely.
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I am one of the brave who posted my picture while I was applying to dental school. I don't know why more people don't do it.
