Viral Harvard Rejection Letter Earns Agency Internship Offer
Molly McGaan and Olson Engage win the week.
Here’s a story you may have seen this week: high school student Molly McGaan, who attends Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, wrote a fake rejection letter ostensibly from Harvard for her school’s humorous newsletter The Daily Poke.
The letter, if you haven’t read it:
Got denied from Harvard :/ pic.twitter.com/0GwYfhBxab
— Nick Zaaphy (@Zaaphy) March 4, 2015
The piece quickly went viral on reddit, imgur, and other platforms, earning coverage on Business Insider and pretty much every other blog yesterday. McGaan even scored an interview with The Boston Globe in which she clarified that she did, in fact, apply to Harvard in real life (and she’s still waiting to hear back).
Her real letter did not include any references to “$wagg moneyyyy” but, like so many fake memes, it fooled thousands of people.
What you guys don’t know is that this Harvard thing was an elaborate ploy to distract you from the dress.
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