The orphan student

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Nearly 18,000 students applied for places in the Harvard Class of 1999, and just over 2,000 were admitted. Gina Grant was one of them. Admissions officers had come to refer to her as “the orphan,” because, as a number of glowing recommendations revealed, for the previous four years she had been living without parents. Her father had died of cancer when she was 11; and, as far as the admissions office knew, her mother had died in “an accident” when Gina was 14. The truth, which the officers would come to know through an anonymously delivered packet of newspaper clippings, was much grimmer: Gina had killed her mother, in what a veteran detective termed “one of the top three most brutal homicides I’ve ever seen.” How would Harvard respond? Revisit Jane Mayer’s 1995 report: http://nyer.cm/UVAgC1u