<p>Yikes!!!</p>
<p>This was my son’s nightmare with one email acceptance–he honestly refused to believe it until he got the “real” packet in the mail!!</p>
<p>Oh no!!! What a PR disaster!</p>
<p>Well, I feel sorry for the poor person who mixed up the e-mail lists.</p>
<p>University office workers are poorly paid for the amount of workload they have, and most of these state universities have budget and hiring freezes in place now anyway so they can’t hire extra help. My sister works at Syracuse University and you would be appalled at the crumbling facilities some of these people have to work in, while the shiny new dorms and academic buildings rise, these people get nothing but more work heaped on them for pay that doesn’t keep up with the cost of living. You, the students, never see this. (However, unfortunately more than a few of the students are going to wind up in difficult office jobs themselves, despite their expensive degrees.)</p>
<p>Some overworked, undersupported university employee probably lost their job over this.</p>
<p>Based on the title, I was afraid this was going to be about someone whining about not getting in somewhere. This is not good.</p>
<p>This seems to happen a lot. We had that issue with UMichigan. One of my kids got an e-mail saying that he had cleared admissions, only to get another one saying that the first e-mail was in error. He then got a third e-mail that confirmed the first. I remember Cornell being in the hot seat a few years ago when they accepted some kids they did not mean to accept.</p>
<p>EVERYONE who applied? What a disaster!</p>
<p>Oh yes, you should read the UCSD site on cc. My d informed me that it is all over cc, facebook, you name it.com.</p>
<p>LA Times article on the incident (mentions CC):</p>
<p>[UC</a> San Diego admissions gaffe dashes students’ hopes – again - Los Angeles Times](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-ucsd-reject1-2009apr01,0,3442257.story]UC”>UC San Diego admissions gaffe dashes students' hopes -- again)</p>
<p>Excerpts:</p>
<p>"All applicants were notified by e-mail weeks ago that admissions decisions were available online, according to UCSD officials, but Bettles said he was unaware he’d been rejected.</p>
<p>“It was really thrilling for a few hours; now he’s crushed,” said the young man’s mother, Tracy Bettles. “Unless you have a high school senior, or remember what it’s like, you don’t know. It’s really tough on them.”</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>"Morgan Currier, a senior at the Cleveland High School humanities magnet in Reseda, said she had already decided to attend the University of Washington when she received the congratulatory e-mail. She checked her page on the UCSD applications portal and learned her status hadn’t changed, so she called the admissions office to get the straight story.</p>
<p>"We got the answering machine with a message left over from Christmas, saying ‘Happy Holidays,’ " said Currier, 18, of Northridge. “This is a prominent UC, and they didn’t seem to have their act together.”</p>
<p>Currier said UC San Diego was the dream school for two of her friends who received the university’s welcome e-mail. “When they got the apology, it was just like getting rejected again,” she said."</p>
<p>Schools such as Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern University’s prestigious Kellogg School of Management have made similar admission notification blunders in the last five years, but UC San Diego’s mistake was by far the biggest."</p>