Last Friday at noon, an email was sent out to nearly 10 percent of the incoming freshmen class alerting a status update in their admissions portal. The University had rescinded a substantial portion of acceptances after an investigation found abominable crimes against grammar: the students had written UNC 28’ rather than UNC ‘28 in their Instagram bios.
“Carolina has a long-standing reputation of academic excellence, and I refuse to jeopardize that,” an admissions officer said. “It’s one thing when we accept high school seniors who wrote about their sports injury in their Common App essay, but this is too far.”
The Onyen reached out to three of the students affected by the admissions revocation. One student left us on read, one sent back a 10-minute video of them crying, and one replied saying they are “now NCSU 28’, so it all worked out.”
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