Do you think adcomms and DGS's browse GradCafe forums?

[woolfie]

Part of me doesn't ever think that old people know how to use the Internet, but I think that's me being naive. If they know about grad cafe, it would be a great resource, at least administratively. Lots of people put their schools applied to in their signature and posts their acceptances and denies to each school.

Also, I tend to discuss whether or not I'm interested in attending more honestly here than I would with the school. Though that might be presumptious to think they care about that- most schools probably aren't as invested as browsing the Internet looking for answers.

I do think that it would be a great resource for the numbers game that admissions plays with what their competing schools are and the like.

Thoughts?

[newms]

They do. And they even post here. See these threads:

There was also a thread on this forum where an applicant got an email from their school saying that the school knew from the applicant's posts on the grad cafe that they were choosing between that school and another and they were encouraging the applicant to choose them.

[DisneyLeith]

I've heard from some students who are currently attending graduate school that faculty and administrators are in fact aware of gradcafe, and do sometimes browse it.

[woolfie]

They do. And they even post here. See these threads:

There was also a thread on this forum where an applicant got an email from their school saying that the school knew from the applicant's posts on the grad cafe that they were choosing between that school and another and they were encouraging the applicant to choose them.

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I should probably be a little more discreet then