UC Irvine rescinds acceptances. Is it unfair?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/us/uc-irvine-acceptance-rejected.html

I have trouble wrapping my mind around this! I cannot imagine finding out in July that my kid’s college acceptance has been rescinded. How awful for the families. If I am following the story correctly, the school claims to have followed its policies - although more stringently that in the past. I know I had my kids follow up on things like making sure the school received a final transcript. I guess I’m not just overly paranoid!

Those who were rescinded for academic reasons/senioritis knew that they violated the terms of their conditional admission and should be denied. Those rescinded due to clerical errors/missing transcripts should be reinstated.

Very. For all that universities require applicants do, to not have your act together and “overbook” by 850 students is unforgivable.

I’ll bet the practice is common, but UCI planners really missed the ball.

This was a tough year for adcoms. There were dire predictions that the current administration would scare away international students and that American students would flee to Canadian universities. Well it seems that many US universities are overenrolled, as are several Canadian universities, McGill for example.

So much for expert predictions.

UCLA had 7, UCI had over 500? Whether it was just because they were more strictly following policies that usually aren’t followed or not, you certainly could have been relying on the fact that they would not change the application of the rules after you have already informed other schools that you are not accepting their offer.

This is seriously bad behavior. These students were put in a horrible position. People should be fired for this.

Wow. I’m with you. Can’t even imagine