Judging by its Facebook network, Hastings High School in New York
has one strange senior class. A student named “FunkMaster Floikes” is
somehow rubbing shoulders with Lizzie McGuire and the fictional parents
from That ‘70s Show. Meanwhile Samwise Gams (a nickname of a hobbit in Lord of the Rings)
is listed as a 2012 alum. At first glance, such social media profiles
have all the makings of crude online pranks. But in reality, they have
been strategically created by actual Hastings seniors determined to
shield themselves from the prying eyes of college admissions officers.
“There’s a fairly big party scene there,” says Sam “Samwise” Bogan, who
is now a freshman at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. “When the
college search process comes around, people start changing their
Facebook name or untagging old photos that they don’t want anyone to
see. It’s kind of a ritual.”
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