<p>According to the Admissions Office, e-mails that should not have been sent to applicants were sent out and should be disregarded. My son’s came as a waitlist letter apparently intended for international students. Came from e-mail account admissintl <a href=“mailto:admissintl@amherst.edu”>admissintl@amherst.edu</a>, dated 3/31/06 at 9:40 a.m., and indicating it was being sent because of my son’s “distance from Amherst,” although we live in New York City.</p>
<p>All the Admissions Receptionist would say was to DISREGARD the e-mail. Nothing more.</p>
<p>My son, a resident of New York, also received a recent email message informing him that he had been placed on the waiting list. I consider this message to be a welcome courtesy extended to him by the Admissions Office, possibly in recognition of the manifest problems associated with the performance of the USPS, a courtesy for which I am most grateful.</p>
<p>Glumdalclitch: All I can tell you is what the Admissions Office told me. E-mails were sent out in error, and my son was to await his letter for official word. </p>
<p>The e-mails were clearly not sent out as a "courtesy" unless the person at the Admissions Office was giving out erroneous information; she said they "should not have been sent."</p>
<p>If, indeed, it is the policy of the Admissions Office to supplement their decision letters with email notification only in the case of international applicants, then sending the emails to our offspring was erroroneous. Clearly, if such be the case, the outcomes of the decision-making process as revealed by the emails, with the highest probability, have no reason not to be accurate just because the Admissions Office did not intend to inform our children of their status by email. </p>
<p>I also got this e-mail and was thoroughly confused because I live in Vermont, about 3 hours from Amherst. Also, it said intl in the address of the sender...</p>
<p>I got the e-mail too. I was so confused!!! It also said that "because of my distance from Amherst" they were letting me know by e-mail that I was waitlisted. Do we think that this reflects our real decision? Or not, because everyone who has gotten one so far has been "waitlisted"? This is bizarre...</p>
<p>We can only guess, Jaimie -- but the letters will come soon. My guess -- probably a waitlist, and some domestic applicants got included in the international e-mail. But maybe some other kind of error was made. We will all know soon.</p>
<p>My guess is that the names on the "domestic" waitlist were accidentally included in the international waitlist decisions to be mailed out. You have to wonder though, wouldn't whoever was in charge of the intl e-mails have noticed that there were an awful lot of names...?</p>
<p>Last year, the room assignments went online early, as well. Kids found out, this site started hopping, and the site was shut down. There was a notice to ignore it, that it was still being worked on, and the assignments wouldn't necessarily be the same. When it came back online for real, the kids who had seen theirs pretty much saw them.</p>