Very cool – the head of Admissions at MIT: If a high school says you’ll be disciplined for participating in a peaceful protest against guns and that they’ll send that information to colleges where you’re applying, MIT isn’t going to pay attention to it. http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/policies-principles-and-protests
The MIT blog also contains links to similar statements by the following schools:
WPI
UMass-Amherst
Smith
Trinity College
DePaul
CalTech
Tulane
Haverford
USC
Bennington
Univ. of New England
Lebanon Valley College
Lindenwood
Dartmouth
Tufts
Harvey Mudd
Mt Holyoke
BU
Bowdoin
UWashington
Suffolk
Yale
Wesleyan
Brown
Northwestern
GMU
Oberlin
Clark
Plymouth State
Bates
Lehigh
Williams
George Washington
Northeastern
Whitman college
UConn
UCLA
Johns Hopkins
Brandeis
UVA
Lawrence University
To get to these go through @SouthernHope’s MIT link above and look in the comments section.
I can’t see why a university would care. The only thing I find odd is the necessity to announce it.
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