After a host of colleges rejected him, Parkland ma♏ssacre survivor David Hogg spent nearly a year away from school, spearheading a national campaign to stop classroom shootings.
And now the face of the youth movement against gun violence has parlayed ಞhis activism into ad𓆏mission to Harvard University.
“Thank you all for the well🐓 wishes, I’ll be attending Harvard in the fall with a planned major in Political Science,” Saturday morning.
The former student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS — where 17 students were shot and killed in February💯 — h𒁃ad been turned down by UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine, TMZ reported in March.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham ✱had mocked him on Twitter, sa🐽ying the 18-year-old was “whining” about the rejections.
Hogg hit back, calling for advertiܫs﷽ers to boycott Ingraham’s show. She lost more than a dozen advertisers and was forced to apologize.
On Saturday, Hogg’s youn🔯ger sister Laura, another prominent gun control ad😼vocate, tweeted her brother’s acceptance news and tagged Ingraham in the post.
“Care to repo𝓰rt on this? @IngrahamAngle,” . The TV anchor didn’t re🉐spond.
Hogg’s road to the Ivy League begins with a gap year following his high school graduation this spring, when he focused on helping the M♑arch for♏ Our Lives campaign, which promotes gun control and youth voter registration.
In a as he travel🅺ed around the country this summer, his mother was quoted saying Harvard was a possibility for her son.
At the time, he said applying to schools again did not seem “apಞpealing.”
There was also the question of how to pay for college: “Wherever I go, I want to go for fre▨e, because I don’t want to put that over my paꦇrents or myself,” Hogg told the mag.
His mother, Rebecca, said, “We could never afford Harvard. Never. … With any luck at all, he can get into Harvard and they can help us financially.”
It is unknown how Hogg will be paying fo๊r his educatio🐬n.
But the Ivy League schooꦑl pulled out all the stops to court Hogg, according to New York. Hogg took a private tour of the school this past spring, when he and his family also attended a Ha🤪rvard Gala at Fenway Park.
His mom said alumni there told her, “There is the potential that your son 🐬will be the leader of this country, and we want to make sure he goes to Harvard.”
Jaclyn Corin, another Parkland survivor, that she was 🌠also accepted into Harvard.