Harvard Withdraws Acceptance For Parkland Shooting Survivor Kyle Kashuv Over Racist Remarks

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Last month, a video of the teen writing the N-word in a Google Doc surfaced online.

Kyle Kashuv, a survivor of the Parkland shooting, has had his admission rescinded from Harvard College over racist and offensive remarks he made when he was 16.

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The now 18-year-old Kashuv, who recently graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, shared news that Harvard was withdrawing his acceptance in a Twitter thread.

The school had sent him a series of letters, with the first one asking him to explain the racist and offensive comments. The following letter had informed him that the college wouldn't be accepting him anymore.

"After careful consideration the committee voted to rescind your admission to Harvard College," William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, wrote to Kashuv in the letter. "We are sorry about the circumstances that have led us to withdraw your admission, and we wish you success in your future academic endeavors and beyond."

The comments referenced come from a Google Doc that Kashuv wrote them in, as well as text and Skype messages. As previously reported by HuffPost, in a shared Google doc for a midterm study guide that classmates were using for a U.S. history exam, Kashuv wrote the N-word multiple times.

A "former friend" of Kashuv's also shared text and Skype message the two had, in which Kashuv wrote "[She] goes for ni**erjocks" about another female student.

"We were 16-year-olds making idiotic comments, using callous and inflammatory language in an effort to be as extreme and shocking as possible," Kashuv wrote on Twitter on May 22. "I'm embarrassed by it, but I want to be clear that the comments I made are not indicative of who I am or who I have become in the years since."

When asked by Harvard to explain his offensive comments, he offered the following response:

"My intent was never to hurt anyone. I also feel I am no longer the same person, especially in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting and all that has transpired since."

Kashuv rose to prominence following the Parkland shooting as a conservative student in favor of gun rights and served as the high school outreach director for Turning Point USA.