<p>After reading posts here, I logged into son’s page and see he was accepted, with all the admitted students links and financial info listed on right. Only wierd thing was the large box said Welcome Lisa. Today it has his correct name and everything is the same as yesterday. I expect a letter in a day or too. Several other colleges gave son 5K, Udel gave 3,500.</p>
<p>We have read with concern this thread on College Confidential and believe we should respond to the families who are experiencing such uncertainty at this time. All of our admission decisions are released to students via the U.S. Postal Service. Our web portal (“My Blue Hen Home”) does, however, include opportunities to sign up for campus visit programs. Before they received their letters from us, eleven students who had been waitlisted or denied admission used that portal to sign up for an admitted student program in April, and that sign-up screen does include the word, “congratulations.” </p>
<p>We take this matter seriously and brought staff in over the weekend to repair the technological error. We have contacted each of these eleven students via e-mail and are scheduling phone calls with all for Monday, March 15. Please know that we take our actions seriously and are working with each family individually on an appropriate resolution. While we realize that this will not stop the conversation on College Confidential, we believe it is our responsibility to inform the public of the current situation.</p>
<p>I feel like a broken record, but as not everyone sees every thread the above needs a response.</p>
<p>Words and the way are used have power. In the above public response UD takes great care to shift responsibility from themselves to the students. Be aware that these 11 did not “use a portal” intended for admitted students, they RESPONDED to an INVITATION placed on THEIR My Blue Hen by UD Admissions. An apology and an admission that UD was completely responsible for this mess, is in order.</p>
<p>This is the most important part of their response:</p>
<p>“Please know that we take our actions seriously and are working with each family individually on an appropriate resolution.”</p>
<p>Give them a chance to address the glitch. What would you prefer , an apology from the University or an offer of admission for the student?</p>
<p>brave ulysses- With all due respect, that is not the most important part. It is equally important that they take responsibility for the error, rather than shifting the blame to the students. </p>
<p>I would prefer they take responsibility and do the right thing. I’m not asking for an apology here for the mistake, but rather for implying that the students had any fault in this at all.</p>
<p>For the mistake we already have an apology email and a planned discussion tomorrow.</p>
<p>This is such a travesty for these kids. Those who had their hearts set on going to UDEL seeing the “Congratulations You Have Been Accepted To the University of Delaware” was absolutely incredible. My child was over the moon and now this? How do you offer an acceptance, then take it away and blame it on a computer glitch. A major university like Delaware just cannot make those kinds of errors. They need to step up to the plate and offer admissions to every single child who received that notice. It’s really horrible - I can’t imagine people sitting back and just accepting this and saying, “Oh, well too bad for us.” It will be interesting to see how UDel handles this. They will earn enormous respect if they offer admissions to each and every child that received the “Congratulations” page - it’s the honorable thing to do and will earn them the respect I’m hoping they deserve.</p>
<p>blackaudi- The problem is it wasn’t the university itself which offered admission, it was a glitch. I think it will come down to how many people had the message on their pages. As it seems right now, everybody had that message posted on mybluehenhome. I know this makes me sound like an awful person, but my acceptance to UD wouldn’t feel as special if all of these extra people are admitted because of some computer glitch. I think 4 years of work makes a student more deserving than clicking on a link. It’s devastating for people, I understand, but it’s an awkward feeling for those who were actually accepted.</p>
<p>I’m really not sure where I sit on this one. Yes, I agree that UDEL probably could have worded their reply differently to make it clear that the 11 students that reserved DD spots were not at fault because, in fact, they weren’t. As a parent of a student going through this college process, I really feel for the students and their parents that had their dreams lifted and then crushed. </p>
<p>I’m not sure what UDEL can fairly do about it. But, to simply admit each and every student that received the “Congrats” page may put a strain on the system. We don’t even know how many students there are in this situation. There are only so many spots available at UDEL so to put more students into (and possibly overloading) the system OR pushing down another ‘deserving’ student higher up on the list would not seem fair. Put another way, would it be fair to all the accepted students if UDEL simply increased its enrollment w/o an appropriate increase in services/facilities? Or, would it be fair to the ‘deserving’ student that would have been accepted but now won’t be because he wasn’t part of the glitch and was moved down the acceptance or wait lists?</p>
<p>A right answer? I’m concluding that there probably isn’t one, I’m sorry to say.</p>
<p>PAquestion- This in no way makes your acceptance any less special. There are kids more qualified and less qualified than you who will be your classmates next year, and not all admission decisions are based on 4 years of hard work, and not all kids who worked hard will get in. Universities look at a variety of factors. That said, congrats on your acceptance and good job! </p>
<p>But this ‘glitch’ is UD’s responsibility. Computers do what they are told, nothing more, nothing less. UD goofed, they had options to prevent this.</p>
<p>honestly it doesnt matter what anyone writes on here.</p>
<p>UDEL is going to do what they think is right and best for absolutely everyone in this situation. </p>
<p>And if you werent originally accepted, they obviously didnt think you could fully succeed at their school, so everyone that saw these “fake congrats” should not necessarily be accepted, because that might not be what’s best for everyone.</p>
<p>SO… UDEL will figure it out.</p>
<p>Collegegirl44 - Congrats on your acceptance. I’m sure there are many students that deserve to be accepted, but may be initially waitlisted due to the large number of qualified applicants in the pool. That doesn’t mean that they couldn’t be successful at UDEL if they were enrolled. This is no different than what we’ve been seeing at many of the other schools on CC recently.</p>
<p>k maybe so. but what im saying is those people (waitlisted, denied, whatever) should not necessarily be offered admission. it doesnt matter what a computer screen said. the university had already determined what students were more qualified. i think if you were accepted, great pick where you want to go. If waitlisted, the process should continue normally and you might be offered admission. if denied, denied. this “glitch” shouldnt change anything.</p>
<p>Got it now. Thanks for clarifying.</p>
<p>I think I’m beginning to see what UDel meant when they said last year’s essays were the worst they had ever seen…</p>
<p>can anyone please tell me what is going on? because 4 people from my town heard last night online that they were accepted… are they showing it online? or will we hear in the mail?</p>
<p>lanna7, both. There was a problem on Friday. Some applicants received an online invitation that told them they were accepted, and now they are being told they were not. The issue should be fixed, but I would wait for the hard copy before telling anyone.</p>
<p>ok thank you… do you know when the letters were sent out?</p>
<p>Friday, some folks got theirs Saturday. Most folks will see theirs Monday or Tuesday I would think.</p>
<p>everyone is entitled to their own opinion. no need to be rude udel15. you seem to think your opinion is the only right one.</p>
<p>Same thing with my daughter. Friday night found the acceptance on her page under “Decision Days” and 12 hours later it was gone. Now we are just left waiting. Hopefully it is just a computer glitch and the acceptance letter will arrive tomorrow.</p>