UCLA sends out wrong message to those on waitlist

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<p>UCLA sent out a message to almost 900 students on their waitlist congratulating them on their acceptance.</p>

<p>UCLA</a> Mistakenly Sent Acceptance Letters to 894 Waitlist Students | NBC Los Angeles</p>

<p>One would think that schools would be more careful about it. The "oops, our bad" defense just rings hollow.</p>

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<p>^^^^^^Ouch…</p>

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<p>Again??? Every year we get this…another large school…</p>

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<p>Didn’t this happen also at a some other well known school last year?</p>

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<p>This happens every year and not every school makes the news (just the large ones).
When D was applying for grad school, a smaller east coast conservatory emailed her (real) acceptance and the email included a line at the end "and congratulations for receiving the prestigious ******* grant. She got a little excited until she realized that she already KNEW the sole receiver of the *****grant. Ends up they sent that to all the grad admits in that department. woopsie. She got a “rescind that email” five minutes later without an apology. Brutal.</p>

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<p>This could never happen at Berkeley. :)</p>

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<p>This is so bad. Yes, it happens each year. There should be consequences for this sort of thing so that the admissions office is much more careful.</p>

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<p>Guess I need better headlines</p>

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<p>Dufuses.</p>

<p>Since this happens at different colleges so frequently you’d think they’d put procedures in place to prevent it from happening - such as having multiple people check it before hitting ‘submit’.</p>

<p>UCLA in particular is exposed because the last time I checked they receive more applications than any college in the country.</p>

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<p>My favorite UCLA story is also about the financial aid dept. A couple of years ago, the financial aid awards were available prior to the admissions decision on the admissions website. So, anyone could easily setup a Bruin account with SSN, go to financial aid tab, see a loan amount or scholarship awarded…</p>

<p>And this from a school with a great CompSci program…</p>

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<p>I’m 55 years old and I still cringe and sweat everytime I have to click the button on a blast e-mail…most of the time I’ll build them and ask my reports to send :slight_smile: I’m such a chicken*****.</p>

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But you know that likely no one from the CS dept actually developed the systems they use or does anything else with them other than have to use them like everyone else. They have an IT department to do that stuff. But I understand the context in which you said it.</p>

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<p>The University of California likes to play senior pranks because it has the largest number of applicants in the nation.</p>

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