Teens are well versed in social media, and now they are able to leverage a platform designed specifically for professional adults to grease the path to college acceptance.
LinkedIn, the professional networking site, has made a series of changes to its platform to allow younger people to create accounts and make themselves more visible to colleges and universities. CNet reports that "Teens can use the professional networking site LinkedIn in two ways: to research universities and to create profiles highlighting accomplishments that would otherwise be hard to include in a traditional application. LinkedIn made these features possible by lowering the age requirement for users to 14 in the United States and by launching what it calls university pages."
The move provides students with the same tools that adults use for job hunting, so they can use them when searching for the right post-secondary school.
With schools slowly returning to normalcy, it is more important than ever to have the administrative team visible to students, teachers and parents.
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