<p>I refused it…but luckily I didnt disillusion myself and just think that was a mistake :D</p>
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–> I received it…but luckily I didnt disillusion myself and just think that was a mistake</p>
<p>Oh wow, I just notice this is the thread I started. I guess a moderator had changed the tittle. </p>
<p>Interesting posts</p>
<p>ahha i got the email too! and i was like wait a minute this might be a mistake. </p>
<p>too good im not going to a school that doesnt know how to send emails lol :P</p>
<p>[Brainstorm:</a> Accept Your Rejection - Chronicle.com](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/article/?id=1282&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en]Brainstorm:”>http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/article/?id=1282&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en)</p>
<p>We always live on the assumption that college admission offices are perfect in what they do … and we accept what they say to us. But no one can be perfect, because human errors can result in clerical errors. This is a perfect example. </p>
<p>Makes us wonder, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>I would ask for my application fee back</p>
<p>My sister graduated from UCSD in 2005…if they had done that to her I think we’d still hear the screaming…</p>
<p>My friend who appealed to UCSD received the email. I can imagine how he felt.</p>
<p>This happens all the time. I worked for my school’s admissions office and I was doing admissions for summer programs, and I stuffed some letters in the wrong envelopes. There was much confusion! In the end, the admissions councils are made up of people – people who frequently make mistakes, especially when you are managing the applications of over 20,000 people, and ESPECIALLY when that number is nearly 50,000.</p>
<p>Clerical errors happen, too. In the fall of 2003 I received a letter from my top choice school stating that I had been deferred from early action, and I was so upset. I called the school after winter break to express my love for the school and ask how I could improve my record and I was told that I was sent the wrong letter in the mail and that I was actually in consideration for a scholarship. A couple of days later they sent me an admissions packet, and a couple weeks later I found out I got a full scholarship.</p>
<p>well i got it though i knew it was a joke anyway since you never trust emails!</p>
<p>Wow…just read this on MSN today about a similar incident at NYU [April</a> Fools: NYU accepts grad students by mistake – Newsday.com](<a href=“Long Island News | Nassau & Suffolk - Newsday”>Newsday | Long Island's & NYC's News Source - Newsday)</p>
<p>ask Goucher-they sent out acceptance letters to students-some posted this great news to their facebook pages—then find out these letters were sent in error and final decisions would come a few weeks later. they made no attempt to correct this error with parents/students.</p>
<p>Hmmm. I heard of one family on the east coast, who as soon as they got the letter booked flights and a hotel room for the weekend… But I’m wondering how they possibly could have been so gullible… Doesn’t it ring a strange bell? You’d think so, right?</p>
<p>I heard something similar happen to someone who applied to Upenn ED and he got a Upenn sweat-shirt as a consolation prize (how ironic).</p>
<p>^zman13: </p>
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<p>Then they would laugh and tell you that it’s nonrefundable. 
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<p>(After all, there are a million reasons why they make the app fee nonrefundable…)</p>
<p>^juillet</p>
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<p>Whoa! I better start calling Chicago, Brown, Stanford, and MIT just to make sure. (Sigh … false hope lives on…)</p>
<p>My son got one of these e-mails. I think he was mostly confused and guessed it was an error. Of course, he immediately went and re-checked his admission status and saw he was still rejected. I don’t think he was too upset by and realized it was a mistake. He did get a good laugh about it when he realized it went out to all rejected students, and was having fun checking out the various comments on CC that night.</p>
<p>OOps! I did it again!</p>
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<p>I’m the type of person that would laugh at his but since 1000s of students got their dreams snatched from them. It makes the whole situation a little depressing.</p>
<p>I thought it was 17,000 students recieving wrong message.</p>