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How can a university admissions officer objectively determine which tweets are and are not "appropriate"? Doesn't that leave the admissions system prone to being even more politicized? I think they should stay far away from an applicant's online footprint.

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They're entire job is making a decision about an applicant where only a percentage is based on objective data. They read your personal statement and make a host of judgements, so I don't see how this would be any different.

Exactly. Whoever thinks admissions people, recruiters, or anyone else can fully put aside their bias to make a decision is scarily ill-informed. Most of it happens subconsciously. Thus the push for diversity among decision-makers in business, government, etc.

This is one of the reason why I consider the current anti-discrimination laws probably fundamentally flawed.

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