Decisions up!!

<p>My thoughts are out to everyone tomorrow as the letters arrive. This is a tough situation and I hope udel will be able to reach a solution where all parties affected are happy</p>

<p>A tad bit harsh collegegirl444. I’m so happy that you were accepted and wish you the best but try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. It will make you a better person in the long run I can assure you. As I understand it, acceptances were sent to EVERYONE who applied and only those that either got a hard copy letter of acceptance or those whose page lists housing info, deposit timing, etc. are accepted (I could be wrong about this). All others will have to wait. After learning this, obviously the university cannot accept everyone that was affected by this computer issue. I had originally thought it only affected a small number of students which is why I felt strongly that they should offer them admission. I don’t know what’s going to happen but it is very difficult for those of us with children whose hearts are broken right now.</p>

<p>honestly I would have done the same thing but you guys were the ones who jumped the gun and went with it. they told you you would get the official notification via mail, not online</p>

<p>jstersh- Jumped the gun? They responded to an invitation placed on their Blue Hen Home by UD! Did the kids who responded and did get in jump the gun? If mail is the only reliable form of communication with UD, why use Blue Hen at all? If they didn’t want students to access this ‘portal’ until after they received their mailed decision, they should not have made it live on Friday. UD could have avoided this and the students bear absolutely no responsibility for trusting that the link was valid.</p>

<p>Another thing, the link was successful… It brought students to another page explaining what they would be doing on admitted students day. How were any of the students supposed to know it wasn’t true when it successfully booked their reservation? They should have had all the decisions online or none. Now it has come down to this… We can all just hope that the university takes responsibility.</p>

<p>I think we can all agree that mistakes happen. But the questions that need to be asked are:</p>

<p>1) Was sufficient care taken to minimize the chance that such an error would occur?</p>

<p>2) Were adequate resources available to address an error in an expeditious manner, including contacting students who were erroneously invited?</p>

<p>3) Did UD respond quickly and adequately to the problem?</p>

<p>In my opinion the answer to all of the above is no. Most egregiously, UD not only hasn’t assumed full responsibility for the error, they’ve implied the students were at fault for responding to the same invitation they wanted accepted students to respond to. This was an invitation they made available. The link should not have been live if they did not want students to respond before receiving their decision. Another school my daughter applied to sends a separate log in code with the acceptance letter to ensure the integrity of the process.</p>

<p>Why should the University of Delaware give your student admission to the school if they are not qualified? Just because the University of Delaware had a technical glitch does mean they should lower their standards and admit students who do not meet the academic qualifications of the school in order to say sorry for mess up.</p>

<p>I won’t rely on anything other than the official letter from Udel. But I have to say that if my daughter didn’t have the grades to get accepted, than I honestly don’t think she should be admitted because of a mistake. I for one, would not want to pay a huge tuition bill to a school that didn’t think my daughter could make it successfully based upon her academic scores. I believe that would be just setting her up for failure academically. And for those who were waitlisted…they should be given special consideration.</p>

<p>Udelwarean and xomamallama- Schools turn away qualified students every year, and use various criteria when deciding the pool they will admit. I do not believe anyone has suggested that an unqualified student should be admitted, nor do I believe any parent or college counselor would encourage a student to apply to a school that is outside their potential for success.</p>

<p>The whole situation is stressful for all involved and everyone is going to have a different opinion. My son was waitlisted and received the letter on Saturday. Is it possible that his mybluehen had the link and we just never saw it because he did not log on during that period of time? Maybe. We’ll never know. </p>

<p>These kids are pretty resiliant. They are going to have a great college experience wherever they end up. They have to be great students or they wouldn’t be applying to a college like Delaware. </p>

<p>My son’s number one choice was Penn State with Delaware and Pitt a distant second and third, initially. After visiting each campus several times (and even having an interview at Delaware) he was rejected by Penn State, accepted by Pitt and waitlisted by Delaware. </p>

<p>He was sufficiently devasted after being rejected from Penn State. He has many friends there and goes there often. His longtime girlfriend is going there. But he is going to Pitt. He is excited and we are excited for him. Even before he got the waitlist letter he had decided to attend Pitt and we had put down the deposit. I guess for him the waitlist didn’t smart as much as it will with others. However, a waitlist is not a rejection so there is hope. </p>

<p>Everything happens for a reason and it will all work out for everyone involved. I just hope UD handles this the right way. I think they should be pretty embarrassed after making everyone wait so long and then having this happen. Although, truthfully, it does say right on the website “official notification by mail” and I wonder if they are going to fall back on that as an excuse. I hope everyone involved will let us on CC know. </p>

<p>Good luck to all the students!</p>

<p>Parents ARE stating that their child should get in because there was a glitch and they were led to believe that their child was accepted. There is no way to know who didn’t get in because they were underqualified. As for counselors, in my school district I have been hearing that not all counselors are available to help all students. Leading parents and children to do it all without any guidance. (I am talking about 3 high schools in my area) Luckily, my daughter doesn’t attend school in our district that is supposedly highly rated. Although my daughters counselor did take a month to send out her mid-year grades. My daughter’s school has block scheduling she doesn’t have mid-terms she takes finals in January and then has 4 new classes until June. So her mid-year grades are technically final grades.</p>

<p>jstersh and U Delawarian (how nice of you to pick our fine thread for your FIRST post? Hmmmmmmmm)</p>

<p>Think about what you say, before you print it. Have you read the beginnings of this thread? All the kids who saw that Decision Days Invite? CC kids are, on a whole, brighter than most. From what I understand there were 40-50 kids who responded to that Delaware days Congratulations the same time. You can read their posts, their excitement…because their reservations weren’t removed mysteriously the next day and acceptances followed…did THEY JUMP THE GUN TOO? OR did ONLY the 11 kids act impatiently? The other 38 who RSVPed the same time…they were on the up and up?</p>

<p>Those of you who REALLY think letting eleven kids in from the wait list to prevent bad PR, and embarrassment (what…will 7 or 8 really go) is a “bad move” most likely have very little corporate legal experience. For those of you that think letting in 11 wait-list kids isn’t fair, well…you’re right. A lot of people think letting in athletes, first generation kids or URM’s and faculty members kids isn’t “fair”…if you have problems with the university you chose to attend following those afore mentioned admission practices…maybe YOU should make a statement…go somewhere else?</p>

<p>This situation stinks for everyone, including UD, the kids who are accepted, and those who might not have a paper or electronic trail to back up their own kid’s heart break. No time to snarky…</p>

<p>xomamallama- Schools stats are all over the internet and I seriously doubt parents are plunking down app fees for schools that are clearly out of their children’s reach. Why would they? It would be a waste of time and money, not to mention the wasted tuition if their child ends up dropping out. My daughter worked closely with a very experienced college counselor and we certainly did not entertain applying to any school that was beyond our daughter’s ability to succeed. I reject entirely the notion that all qualified students are offered admission, and that every student offered admission is ultimately qualified. Schools simply do not have the space to enroll every candidate that fits their score profile and can succeed. </p>

<p>Do you really think UD has no responsibility for telling these kids they were admitted, and allowing then to believe it and share it for nearly two days? The web began to change on Friday, so they knew and remained silent. More importantly it would have been easy to avoid this. This stinks for everyone, including UD.</p>

<p>motherto5- Pitt will be great! Certainly being wait listed or denied is painful, but part of the process. But being told you are accepted and left to believe it, then told days later you weren’t, and being blamed for responding to the invitation is truly awful.</p>

<p>imanicollegehelp: Haha! “This situation stinks for everyone, including UD”</p>

<p>Great minds think alike!?</p>

<p>UD receives thousands upon thousands of applications. The range of qualifications between the bottom 400 accepted and the top of the waiting list for a state school like UD is “subjective” to say the least. No doubt, there are kids on the waiting list who, have considerably higher test scores or GPA’s but come from more competitive schools so their rank is lower, or they lost a space to a kid with exactly the same stats, but was from South Dakota? It’s no science, so those speaking like there is a “cut and dry” line of standards aren’t very well versed in the process.</p>

<p>My kid was accepted to PSU University Park Non-glitch)…I got in a fight earlier in the year on CC because I referred to Delaware as “a reach” for my kid. The person argued back that UD was ninety something on USNWR compared to PSU’s forty something or thirty something ranking and they didn’t know why I’d think UD was a reach for a kid who got into University Park? There’s no doubt in my mind there were hundreds of kids with similar or BETTER stats than my son who didn’t get into PSU…this is no science folks…no black and white “NOT QUALIFIED” and “QUALIFIED”</p>

<p>Imanicollegehelp- You said it best.</p>

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<p>Considering the numerous instances where colleges have sent false acceptance letters and emails due to some type of error, how many have actually faced legal trouble because of it?</p>

<p>udel-as you can tell by my username, i think you need to relax. obviously there was a computer mishap that occurred that no one would have wished for. although UDEL’s statement could have been worded differently the ultimate point is that a mistake was made. I understand that it is hard to have your “dreams crushed” but no student should be admitted under that basis. there are seniors everywhere that are turned down from schools they love or “should have” been accepted to. even though it must be very difficult to be among those students, if they were to be accepted they should be accepted, if rejected, then rejected, etc…</p>

<p>udel15RELAX_ You talking to me??? LOL! I’m tired of talking about this. I’ve said what I’ve said (and none of it had to do with crushed dreams or being turned down, NONE) and I think I’ve said it clearly enough for most. Later.</p>

<p>imani and udel, what happened with your son and daughter regarding UD? Did they get a phone call today? Were they waitlisted, accepted, denied? You may have already posted this in another thread (or even in this thread) but I haven’t seen and I’ve been thinking about your kids and all the others and wondered what happened? Thanks.</p>