AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Colleges across the nation are starting to take a deeper look into incoming students' personal lives before admitting them.
According to a recent Kaplan Test Prep survey of 350 admissions officers, more than 25 percent of school officials said they had looked up applicants on Facebook or Google.
With new high technology, there shouldn't be any surprise that some universities have started to look into them to learn more about the students they are going to welcome. Local schools state that they do look at social media. However, not for the same reasons.
"We just like interacting with them to help them get information about West Texas A & M," said Dan Garcia, the Vice President of Academic Affairs. "In terms of looking at the student and their social interactions, their private lives, in order to make a decision about their admission, we don't do that at all."
Not only are schools looking at social media to look at students, but now sexual orientation may be next. The University of Iowa is the nation's first public university to ask incoming students about their sexual orientation.
Both West Texas A & M and Amarillo College state that they don't plan on implementing this.
