“Carnegie Mellon University just joined the ranks of MIT, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, and other elite schools that have recently broken hearts through a technology glitch, by mistakenly e-mailing hundreds of applicants that they’d been accepted. The admissions office incorrectly sent an e-mail on Monday to about 800 people who’d applied to the university’s master’s program in computer science, university spokesperson Ken Walters confirmed.”
I can’t believe this happens every year
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-17/carnegie-mellon-mistakenly-admits-800-students