<p>I’ll admit the staff can make mistakes… some bigger than others. But you shouldnt look down on the entire staff because of several people’s mistakes.</p>
<p>For example, the email that was sent out wasnt the mistake of Mae Brown, but rather her assistant who was put in charge of sending the emails. If anything, be mad at the assistant for causing such a huge mistake.</p>
<p>As for the letter written by the professors, you shouldnt be irritated by all of them. If you read some of the comments on the web page with the letter, you’ll see quite a few professors from UCSD actually were against the letter claiming how it’s a shame their colleagues have degraded themselves like that.</p>
<p>Berkeley is actually more known as the Ivy reject school in general. </p>
<p>It’s also true that alot of the student body at UCSD got rejected from UCLA and UCB but cmon, seriously. You don’t actually think people still wallow in sorrow because of those rejections… This attitude may apply to the freshman in the Fall quarter but no one on campus, unless they are just a sad being who can’t get over anything, still simmers in rejection. With that said, about 5 of my 10 suitemates last year got into both Cal and UCLA and turned it down, usually just for academic prestige of some program.</p>
<p>@ AmbyRoy… I completely understand that you are upset about that letter, that would have been really *****ty for me too. HOWEVER… My first choice was USC, and I was rejected. You don’t see me running around on their boards airing their negative sides (it’s in the ghetto, etc) just because I got rejected. Even if they had sent me a false acceptance note I still wouldn’t be doing that! It’s immature and makes the school look bad to newbies who have not applied to college yet.</p>
<p>Sorry for the novel that is how I feel. I have SO MUCH Triton pride <3 and I hope you end up loving your school just as much! Everything works out in the end.</p>
<p>amby262roy: let’s get some facts straight. Let’s not rewrite history.</p>
<p>– On March 14, UCSD announced all admission decisions – all 41, 000 including fall admits, winter admits and rejections. All decisions were posted on-line on the same day. Everyone knew their UCSD status by logging into their myapplication website from that point forward.
– Two weeks later in inviting those admitted to the Admit day in early April, UCSD directed that missive to all “applicants” database including those NOT admitted instead of only the 17,000 or so “admitted” candidates database. This was a single error that gave cause for such confusion. We all agree it should never have happened.
– Two hours after discovering the error, UCSD immediately contacted all those who got the note and apologized. The University pointed out then that the original decision was still being displayed on the MyApplication website.
– All those who got the invitation to Admit Day by mistake were quickly informed of the error by UCSD. All this within the space of a few hours.</p>
<p>Was this regretable? Yes. Should this have been avoided? You bet. But this does not confer on all applicants a “right” or claim against UCSD – a right or claim they did not have in the first place after knowing they were denied. So, amby, you would do well to move on. Every minute you keep clinging to what might have been is a minute you have wasted. </p>
<p>Enjoy the school you are going to. Do well. And, prosper.</p>
<p>I personally don’t care if UCSD has a football team. Unless I’m playing or otherwise working on the field, I wouldn’t go to games. I can see how football would attract some students, but looks at SDSU. SDSU definitely has atmosphere, but they’ve been failing for years to get enough people to fill the seats at games.</p>
and i didn’t read about the professors degrading themselves part.</p>