<p>almost 900 wrongly told they were accepted, when they weren't.</p>
<p>Count your blessings people!</p>
<p>Honestly. There have been a couple of these this year. I think Vassar had a nightmare like this ED or something…</p>
<p>Yep. My point was that people here were complaining about the use of snail mail to notify admissions decisions, but that sometimes the email method has major problems. UNC-Chapel Hill had a major problem with email errors a few years ago as well. </p>
<p>Plus I think emails are less personal.</p>
<p>The same kind of gut-wrenching mistake could be made by snail-mail-- except is less likely to be made because snail mail is expensive, so it gets double-checked. A paper notification is too costly to mess up. The argument could be made that UCLA and Vassar (and every other college) need to be more thorough. They should treat emailed and online notifications with the same respect that they would treat any other correspondence.</p>