You Have Been Accepted…..Psych!!!
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Del.icio.usIn case you weren’t already stressed out by waiting for college acceptance letters - what about the rejection letters? Students who applied to UC San Diego - and were rejected - accidentally got mailed subsequent acceptance letters in a clerical error.
The admissions office of the University of California at San Diego accidentally e-mailed acceptance letters to its entire undergraduate applicant pool, including 28,000 students who had been rejected earlier this month, the Los Angeles Times reported. Campus officials blamed the mistake on an “administrative error” that involved selecting the wrong database of recipients.
“We recognized the incredible pain receiving this false encouragement caused. It was not our intent,” said Mae Brown, the campus’s admissions director. Ms. Brown said she had been answering e-mail from disappointed students and parents.
UC San Diego isn’t the only college to make mistakes when it came to mailing out the wrong letters to the wrong students. Colleges such as UC Davis and Cornell have made similar “administrative errors”.
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Editor: Melissa Steele is a freelance writer and focuses her research on funding for higher education. She is a graduate of UNLV and endeavors to keep her readers up to date with the most relevant education information.