"Senior slide" can torpedo students' admission offers, leaving them with few alternatives. I tell my students at school or in my private practice, "Colleges expect to get what they see when they read your application." Add to this conditional situation the relatively recent growth of social media as a component of students' lives. Ten students were discovered to have posted racist, sexist and other ugly memes and comments in a Facebook chat group for accepted students. (It's not unheard of, by the way, for unscrupulous students or parents to try to torpedo others' applications by anonymously informing an admission office of another student's indiscretions.

Source: Forbes June 19, 2017 10:52 UTC