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You can get fired from a job at private company for posting racist material on the internet. I'm not sure how acceptance to a private college is any different.

by noer 9y ago

You can get fired from a job at private company for posting racist material on the internet. I'm not sure how acceptance to a private college is any different. It's better that they learn this lesson now, rather than when a salary depends on it. They're smart/accomplished enough to get into Harvard and they'll all likely rebound from this.

alunchbox 9y ago
> They're smart/accomplished enough to get into Harvard and they'll all likely rebound from this. only the part that is messed up with this is after you get enrolled you usually send out a letter to other colleges/university to decline their offers... in my past experience after a decline their isn't a second chance. this puts all of them on a 1 year stand by. Really this is fair? - and they still have another 4 years to grow up and grow before joining a professional 'salary' job 18-23 year old? generally they would be between 17-18 years old and for such an petty issue will now have a hell of a time rebounding.
- eropple 9y ago
  I think it's fair. Put simply: don't be a racist and you won't find yourself on the outside looking in when it comes to things you care about. This isn't kids-being-kids; when I was 17/18 we certainly weren't passing around racist propaganda--and that's what it is, it isn't just "memes" and it shouldn't be minimized as "petty". Our brains weren't fully baked either, nobody's is at that age, but racist propaganda is a profoundly serious issue and Harvard, to their credit, understands that and refuses to minimize it the way you are doing. And it's not a year, it's half a year; spring admissions are commonplace. That still super sucks for the people who got caught being racist turds; hopefully they learn from the seriousness of what they did (and they did it, and it was serious) and choose not to be racist turds going forward.

by noer 9y ago

alunchbox 9y ago

> They're smart/accomplished enough to get into Harvard and they'll all likely rebound from this. only the part that is messed up with this is after you get enrolled you usually send out a letter to other colleges/university to decline their offers... in my past experience after a decline their isn't a second chance. this puts all of them on a 1 year stand by. Really this is fair? - and they still have another 4 years to grow up and grow before joining a professional 'salary' job 18-23 year old? generally they would be between 17-18 years old and for such an petty issue will now have a hell of a time rebounding.

eropple 9y ago
I think it's fair. Put simply: don't be a racist and you won't find yourself on the outside looking in when it comes to things you care about. This isn't kids-being-kids; when I was 17/18 we certainly weren't passing around racist propaganda--and that's what it is, it isn't just "memes" and it shouldn't be minimized as "petty". Our brains weren't fully baked either, nobody's is at that age, but racist propaganda is a profoundly serious issue and Harvard, to their credit, understands that and refuses to minimize it the way you are doing. And it's not a year, it's half a year; spring admissions are commonplace. That still super sucks for the people who got caught being racist turds; hopefully they learn from the seriousness of what they did (and they did it, and it was serious) and choose not to be racist turds going forward.