Kyle Kashuv, who has defended gun rights since surviving a shooting at his Parkland, Fla., high school last year, said Thursday he had been accepted into Harvard University.
“After a year of fighting for school safety legislation and accountability in Parkland,” he captioned a screenshot of his acceptance letter, “Im honored to announce that I’ve been accepted into Harvard.”
“AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD,” he added.
AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD https://t.co/vhzdY2Ej3m
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 29, 2019
Kashuv was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman shot and killed 14 of his classmates and three staff members in February 2018.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, when many of his classmates were advocating for gun control, Kashuv, a conservative, stood on the other side of the debate.
He has since become the director of high school outreach for Turning Point USA, a conservative college organization supportive of President Trump.
Kashuv met with Democratic and Republican lawmakers during a trip to Washington in March 2018 that ended with Kashuv meeting Trump and first lady Melania Trump in the Oval Office.
If he attends Harvard, Kashuv will join Parkland alum and gun control activist David Hogg, who announced in December he’d be attending the elite institution in the fall and majoring in political science. Fewer than 2,000 of the more than 43,000 applicants were admitted to the class of 2023.
Thank you all for the well wishes, I’ll be attending Harvard in the fall with a planned major in Political Science.
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) December 22, 2018
