Harvard’s Drastic Decision

College admissions officers are not typically sitting around trolling the internet for evidence of bad behavior by their prospective students, Ivey said, but when that information comes to light, they have a responsibility to take it seriously, and typically they will give the student an opportunity to explain the situation. A college’s post-admissions decision depends largely on the details of each specific case, but the additional processing that colleges employ to evaluate student conduct is a sign of a different standard of evaluating information before and after an offer has been made.