The student newspaper of the university reported that Harvard University had accepted admission offers of at least 10 students but now cancelled due to they posted offensive comments online. The Harvard Crimson http://bit.ly/2s9vmKV reported that a number of students from the incoming freshman class created a private group on Facebook in the month of December 2016. They used this group to trade messages and images, and most of them were sexually categorical and some of them insulted cultural elements. The Crimson indicated that one commenter called the “piñata time” to a proposed hanging of a Mexican child. Other presented jokes regarding the Holocaust, child abuse and sexual assault. A spokeswoman from Harvard, Rachael Dane refused to comment and said Harvard doesn’t need to discuss the admission status of any individual applicant.
The university confirmed that the offers of accepted students can be withdrawn after finding their behavior as a question for their honesty, maturity or moral character. These are some reasons among a variety of other reasons. Point to be noted that the Crimson didn’t mention any student who claim for their admissions offers were withdrawn. The student newspaper indicated that it was published on nameless condition to one of the students whose admission had been withdrawn. It was also mentioned that Harvard officials had forwarded letters to members of the alleged group. It is important that students had created the alleged Facebook group as a spinoff from a group having at least 100 members and it was created for the Class of 2021.