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Harvard's recent decision to rescind the admission of Gina Grant represents a tragic event not only for Grant, but also for Harvard and for the concept of a juvenile justice as an opportunity for a second chance. Grant, who rebuilt her life after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter of her mother at age 14, is a model case of how child offenders can become productive citizens if given a chance to start anew...
Contrary to Harvard's claims, the Gina Grant case is not an issue of an applicant falsifying her record. Grant could not have disclosed her absence from school or her six month incarceration without violating the confidentiality of her sealed court case. Even the judge who sentenced Grant says she was not required to disclose this information to Harvard...
Admission to Harvard College is not a right, it is a privilege. And it is a privilege Gina Grant does not deserve. Grant murdered her own mother brutally and in cold blood just five years ago. Now a senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Grant was admitted to Harvard's Class of 1999 under the Early Action program before her mother's murder came to light. She moved to Cambridge from South Carolina four years ago to attend a probationary program and to reconstruct her life. Before that, she spent six months in a juvenile correctional facility...
...Gina Grant is indeed on trial again, but we cannot come to her defense. The College reserves the right to rescind offers of admission at its discretion if an applicant misrepresents facts or "engages in behavior that brings into question honesty, maturity or moral character." Surely Grant fulfills all of these criteria...
...Gina Grant who was originally presented to the Admissions Committee was worthy of acceptance to Harvard. But the real Gina Grant is not; she committed a vicious crime with which, to judge by her application, she has not yet come to terms. For both of these reasons--primarily, because of the murder, and secondarily, because she seems to have lied about it--we believe Grant lacks the honesty, maturity and moral character rightly expected of Harvard students...