Harvard law offers pulled after 'offensive' private chat
Harvard Law School has rescinded offers to ten prospective students after they were found to have posted graphic material deemed offensive on private Facebook group chats.
The Harvard Crimson (the daily student newspaper of Harvard University) reported that the prospective members of the class of 2021 had sent each other memes and other graphics, which were then screenshot and shown to authorities.
The students with law school offers had found and contacted each other using the official Harvard Class of ’21 Facebook group. The initial chat group then split off into a second X-rated group, where more salacious material was posted.
Admissions’ office staff wrote to participants in the latter group and asked them to disclose every picture they had shared in the private group.
The ten were then told not to attend a weekend of events for incoming students before having their college offers withdrawn at the end of April.
Harvard admitted 5.2 per cent of applicants to the class of 2021, accepting 2,056 out of 40,000 hopefuls.