The high school honors student whose admission to Harvard University was revoked after Harvard found that she had killed her mother has been accepted by Columbia University, a Columbia official said Friday.
The acceptance letter, however, went out before Harvard took its action last week, and it is unclear if Columbia will stand by its decision.Kathryn Yatrakis, the associate dean of Columbia College, said Friday that the student, Gina Grant, has been accepted by the school, but she would not elaborate.
Grant was accepted in December by Harvard as an early-admissions candidate. Harvard, however, with-drew the acceptance after it received an anonymous package of press clippings that told of how Grant, at 14, served six months in juvenile detention after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter. In 1990, she beat her alcoholic mother to death in South Carolina with a candlestick holder.