2700 Get Incorrect Congrats Letter From UNC

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>I applied to UNC regular decision. in total i applied to 14 colleges, many of which are better than unc so it kinda ****ed me off but in another sense it didnt. I applied to others like princeton, tufts, washu, brown, and emory. At that time being was was 4/4 with all my back up colleges and was hopeing to go 5/5 with my first big college but it all went down the drain.. oh well
The first email is the acceptance, 2nd reply for saying sry, 3rd another sry... this is all true people im not lying...</p>

<pre><code>UNC-Chapel Hill Admissions <uncreply@admissions.unc.edu>

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Jan 23 (5 days ago)
Dear _________:</p>

<p>Congratulations again on your admission to the University. We require all admitted students to submit midyear grades to us online. To submit your grades, please log into your UNC homepage at <a href="http://www.admissions.unc.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.admissions.unc.edu&lt;/a> with your confidential username and password. From your homepage, click on the link under "Important Updates Just for You". Please do not ask your guidance counselor to submit your midyears on your behalf. Instead, we require that you submit accurate and complete grades online by February 12.</p>

<p>We appreciate your continued interest in Carolina and wish you every success in the months ahead.</p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<p>Office of Undergraduate Admissions
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</p>

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Jan 24 (4 days ago)
Dear ________:</p>

<p>Yesterday, you may have received an erroneous email requesting your midyear grades. As a result of a technical error that we are still trying to diagnose, several students received an email that was intended for our Early Notification applicants. As a Regular Notification applicant, your application is still under review by the Admissions Committee. We apologize for the confusion this email may have caused.</p>

<p>All Regular Notification applicants are required to submit midyear grades online by February 12. If you have not already submitted your grades, please log into your UNC homepage at <a href="http://www.admissions.unc.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.admissions.unc.edu&lt;/a> with your confidential username and password. From your homepage, click on the link under "Important Updates Just for You". Please do not ask your guidance counselor to submit your midyears on your behalf. Instead, we require that you submit accurate and complete grades online by February 12.</p>

<p>Once again, we are very sorry for the confusion. Please contact us if you have any questions.</p>

<p>Office of Undergraduate Admissions
UNC-Chapel Hill</p>

<pre><code>UNC-Chapel Hill Admissions <uncdirector@admissions.unc.edu>

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Jan 24 (4 days ago)
Dear _____________:</p>

<p>I write to apologize personally for the confusion and disappointment we have caused many second-deadline candidates for admission.</p>

<p>At 3:50 p.m. on January 23, 2007, as a result of two simultaneous human errors, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions mistakenly sent an email to a number of second-deadline candidates requesting the submission of their midyear grades. The email began: "Congratulations again on your admission to the University. We require all admitted students to submit midyear grades to us online."</p>

<p>We recognized this error within an hour and believed that it was confined to approximately 540 students. At 5:30 p.m. we emailed these students to apologize for our error and to explain that all second-deadline candidates are still under review.</p>

<p>At 8:00 this morning we discovered that the error involved more students than we had previously believed. We immediately emailed every second-deadline candidate who had not received the first correction message to apologize for our error and to explain that all second-deadline candidates are still under review.</p>

<p>At 12:15 today we emailed approximately 2,300 high-school counselors to inform them of this error and to offer to answer any questions that they, their parents, or their students might have.</p>

<p>I deeply regret this error. Our office has worked hard to demystify admission to Carolina and to make the process more humane. I am sorry that this error may have made the experience more difficult for you, particularly since you trusted us to treat you fairly and get things right.</p>

<p>We have shifted responsibilities within our office to ensure that every admissions officer is available to speak with any applicant or parent who received the mistaken message. If you would like to discuss this matter with us, we would welcome your call.</p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<p>Stephen Farmer
Assistant Provost and Director of Undergraduate Admissions</p>

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<p>I recieved a similar email last year. Except it was from a bad school so nobody cared. My friends recieved a similar email as well. I just looked through my gmal archives and turns out its from Marymount..</p>

<p>Here it is:
Congratulations again on your acceptance to Marymount University! Selecting a college is a tough choice and we would like to provide you with as many resources as possible to guide you through your decisions, and hopefully give you a chance to get those last minute questions answered.</p>

<p>One of the ways to get your questions answered or to get a chance to meet your future classmates is through our Message Board for Admitted Students. It’s a great way to connect with the Class of 2010!</p>

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<p>They followed up a few days later with:</p>

<p>Please accept my apologies – it has come to my attention that you have inadvertently received a Marymount email intended for accepted seniors. In fact, you were supposed to receive an email inviting you to a message board for prospective MU students. You will be receiving this information later in the week, once the message board goes live. </p>

<p>Once again, bad school, nobody cares. And I didn't even apply to it.</p>

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<p>nfl - With all due respect, the first email wasn't an acceptance, rather a request for midyear grades intended for applicants accepted in EA round. </p>

<p>Don't be discouraged!....nothing is down the drain. At this early stage of the game, all those who rec'd the email in error are surely still under consideration. And look at it this way, what better way to make sure your application is given every possible careful consideration? You may very well get that true acceptance email.</p>

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<p>No its not about making people feel better, its about standing up ande doing the right thing. </p>

<p>if a store sends you the wrong item under federal law you arent required to send it back to them, it was there fault and they need to deal with it and deal with the consequences.</p>

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<p>Well, they aren't going to. Get over it.</p>

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<p>This isn't a department store, it's a university. You can't make comparisons like that.</p>

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<p>It isn't as if UNC has a choice. State law determines the percentage of oos students accepted which is 18%. That translates to approximately 685 spaces in a normal freshman class of 3800 students. Admissions sent the erroneous email to 1900 oos applicants. To accept those 1900 as circuit suggests, they would also have to accept almost 9,000 instate applicants. It isn't going to happen.</p>

<p>In the real world, mistakes happen. UNC has done all they can do to remedy the situation. The silver lining is that all those who rec'd the email undoubtedly will have their applications very thoroughly examined. No worries about getting sifted without careful consideration. I'd look on this as a good thing.</p>

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<p>circuit - I think you're referring to an FTC Rule that allows you to keep merchandise you didn't order. Of course, that doesn't apply to this situation (I don't think admission to a university would be considered "merchandise," but in case you're interested, the FTC's website states, in part: </p>

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Q. What should I do if the unordered merchandise I received was the result of an honest shipping error?</p>

<p>A. Write the seller and offer to return the merchandise, provided the seller pays for postage and handling. Give the seller a specific and reasonable amount of time (say 30 days) to pick up the merchandise or arrange to have it returned at no expense to you. Tell the seller that you reserve the right to keep the merchandise or dispose of it after the specified time has passed.

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<a href="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/products/unorderd.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/products/unorderd.htm&lt;/a> </p>

<p>As a matter of basic contract law, if the first email could have been construed as an offer of admission (and I don't think it was), the offer was clearly withdrawn before it was accepted and surely before anyone relied on it to his or her detriment. </p>

<p>I think UNC has handled this as well as anyone could in the situation, and while I am sympathetic to any applicant who got his or her hopes up, I am also sympathetic to the admissions office. They have a very difficult job, even without glitches like this. </p>

<p>(Please don't consider anything in this post to be legal advice, as it is not intended as such.)</p>

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<p>What's Hyp?</p>

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<p>Harvard/Yale/Princeton</p>

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<p>After being waitlisted by Amherst, I received TWO e-mails congratulating me on my acceptance and asking for housing applications. The first one had a nearly immediate e-mail sent out apologizing; the second was never corrected.</p>

<p>I think this happens more than people realize.</p>

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<p>Ha, last year I got an email from boston university congratualtiong me on my enrollment into BU and reminding me to come to their freshman orientation, when I was still a high school junior and had applied no where!</p>

<p>obviously, a few days (maybe hours?) later they said sorry for that, we hope you apply next year...it just kinda made me laugh</p>

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<p>I had the reverse issue when I was an applicant. One uni I declined insisted that I fill out housing forms and orientation group preferences. I had mini heart attacks all until they finally realized I was NOT enrolling. Considering the legal ramifications, I think that's even worse than a false acceptance.</p>

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<p>Once in the past I received a "You are accepted!" message from Sacred Heart University. I simply ignored it because I had never applied there.</p>

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<p>When my S was a HS senior he got a letter from Tulane telling him they were sorry but that he had not won the Presidential Scholarship. It was news to us since he had not even applied to Tulane!</p>

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<p>I got an e-mail from northeastern university congratulating me on my acceptance even through the app deadline was yet to come ..lol</p>

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<p>not all schools accept people after the deadline, about 98% of schools use a rolling admission.</p>

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<p>I got the e-mail from them but I figured it was a mistake since I did not apply early. Less than a day later I got the e-mail apologizing for the mistake.</p>

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<p>it's quite funny to see such mistakes..</p>

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<p>they shoulda done it on april first so that it could all have been an april fools joke...</p>