Oops! Johns Hopkins mistakenly tell rejected applicants they were admitted.

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<p>Seems like something like this happen regularly.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/johns-hopkins-mistakenly-says-yes-to-hundreds-of-rejected-applicants/2014/12/16/20b5f9f4-8575-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html?hpid=z3"&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/johns-hopkins-mistakenly-says-yes-to-hundreds-of-rejected-applicants/2014/12/16/20b5f9f4-8575-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html?hpid=z3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>JHU just Vassared its applicants.</p>

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<p>Maybe I’m unusual. I do not understand how having one’s hopes “crushed” by phone would be better than having them “crushed” by email.</p>

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<p>It seems to me like you’d want to check you had the right email list before sending something of this magnitude. Or am I hopelessly old-fashioned?</p>

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<p>I am amazed at how often something which ABSOLUTELY CANNOT HAPPEN happens anyway. I would think that this is one of the first things everybody involved would be told to avoid at all costs.</p>

<p>I think JHU should at least refund the application fees. The applicants did not get what they paid for: a proper processing of their application.</p>

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<p>@WasatchWriter It seems like they care more to take time out to personally call each “accepted” applicant. A general group email isn’t saying anything as personal to them, only letting the applicants know that a mistake has been made and they are sorry for the mistake in technology. </p>

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<p>To be honest, anyone who got the email should have been suspicious because they had already been told earlier the correct decision. It’s not like they sent out the wrong decision in the initial response, and quite frankly, if my kid had gotten the second email, I would have been checking for evidence of spoofing. Embarrassing, yes, but not what I was expecting from when I read the headline and thread here.</p>

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<p>lazy administrators, no idea of governance and responsibility/ obviously outdated processes with no transparency (blame it on the contractor…really?)
I’m sure this apathy bleeds into their famed “holistic review.” </p>

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<p>well… that requires a sense of shame… and social responsibility - which obviously this college lacks. The response from this college will be to stay quiet, sit tight and let it heal (public forget) over time.</p>

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<p>Two consecutive days with quite adverse Washington Post press for JHU, as a result of this unbelievable gaffe. While all this will be resolved, obviously no excellent university wants this sort of adverse publicity. </p>

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<p>Such a tough few days for those students wrongly notified</p>