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    Harvard Rescinds Offer To Parkland Survivor After Discovery Of Racist Comments

    Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland student survivor, was accepted into Harvard, but after the university discovered racist slurs he made when he was 16, the offer was rescinded.
    by Anya Kamenetz Jun 18, 2019 2 minutes
    Kyle Kashuv, a student survivor of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, became a nationally prominent gun-rights advocate while many of his surviving classmates instead organized to advocate for gun control.

    Kyle Kashuv, one of the survivors of the mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., applied and was accepted into Harvard University.

    His acceptance, however, was rescinded after Harvard discovered that Kashuv, now 18, used racial slurs in texts, Skype conversations and Google documents when he was 16.

    Here's why people are talking about Kashuv's case.

    A Parkland survivor turned activist

    Kashuv's name first came into the spotlight

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