Word: rescindability
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...added that while he expected the vast majority of students would be honest, Harvard would eventually find out through guidance counselors, classmates or parents if a student were hiding an early decision commitment and rescind that student’s admission...
...free speech, we do not believe it applies in this instance. The recent headline of the BBC claiming that Paulin had been ‘banned from Harvard’ is incorrect: he was not banned from the campus in any way. The English department chose merely to rescind an offer of official University recognition. Nothing prevents Paulin from airing his views in whatever venues he can find. This campus has seen many inflammatory and bombastic speakers throughout the years, but they have come to our community at the behest of student groups. Ann Coulter, who at one time advocated...
Theoretically, according to Fitzsimmons, Harvard would rescind her admission. She would likely be unwelcome at Yale as well, and her case would send a strong message about the seriousness of the early decision pact...
...what if there were 50 cases like this at each school out of an early decision group of 500 or 600? Could Harvard realistically rescind such a substantial proportion of its class at such a late date? If not, the scenario would be no different than the doomsday predictions flying around in June. And after a chaotic year, early decision schools would be forced to abandon their programs. If only a few students attempt to renege, they are likely to suffer. But if enough do, the system would fall apart...
...This goes beyond legal considerations,” Fitzsimmons says. “It’s an issue of character...If we rescind someone, it’s not to enforce an early decision with which we disagree...