Probably not. At State U, you'd have a decent lawsuit if they jerked an admission over ('merely') offensive speech. This kind of filtering probably goes on al

Probably not. At State U, you'd have a decent lawsuit if they jerked an admission over ('merely') offensive speech. This kind of filtering probably goes on all the time, but it's hard to connect the admission decision to particular conduct by the student. Here, it's not difficult, because Harvard isn't bound by the First Amendment like a state school. ed: Here's a case that seems wrongly decided, but shows that the case is merely decent, not a slam dunk: How much free-speech protection does a college applicant have? This federal court says: Zero.[1] [0](http://www.splc.org/blog/splc/2015/03/maryland-court-removes-free-speech-protection-for-college-applicants http://www.splc.org/blog/splc/2015/03/maryland-court-removes...)