Students Gain Access to Files on Admission to Stanford
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#3If/once these become public record, does that create any legal issues for the university? Given how easy it is to twist informal speech like an e-mail out of context it does make ya wonder. A boderline-defamatory remark made public seems quite different something kept private.
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#4Looks like we've got something similar in Canada,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Information_Protection...
I'm excited to try it out at my university!
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#5Any source about which federal law is? or if it does apply to other universities such as MIT or Harvrad?
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#6The newsletter from The Fountain Hopper (who appears to have discovered this) has some more interesting details:
When you apply to Stanford, your application gets assigned at least two admissions 'readers.'
FoHo knows you get a third (specialized) reader if you're a legacy or a 'minority' (though we're not too sure how that's defined). We also think you get an additional reader if you're an athlete or development kid (i.e. you donated $$$).
These readers (a mix of full-time admissions officers and seasonal hires) are tasked with reading thousands of applications in just a few weeks and distilling each of them into an concise, 300-ish word summary.
http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c9d7a555374df02a66219b57...
Re: Students Gain Access to Files on Admission to Stanford
#7Any source about which federal law is? or if it does apply to other universities such as MIT or Harvrad?
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, available at (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1232g)
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#8Any source about which federal law is? or if it does apply to other universities such as MIT or Harvrad?
You can read about the law here:
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/students.html
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#9If/once these become public record, does that create any legal issues for the university? Given how easy it is to twist informal speech like an e-mail out of context it does make ya wonder. A boderline-defamatory remark made public seems quite different something kept private.
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Re: Students Gain Access to Files on Admission to Stanford
#10If/once these become public record, does that create any legal issues for the university? Given how easy it is to twist informal speech like an e-mail out of context it does make ya wonder. A boderline-defamatory remark made public seems quite different something kept private.
FERPA doesn't make them public records, it just allows a student to access their own educational records.
I think a student could release their own records but that wouldn't fall under defamation from what I know.