<p>UNC mistakenly sent out false acceptances:</p>
<p>edit: sorry I am having a problem posting the link. I found the story on yahoo.com. Can someone help?</p>
<p>UNC sent out an email to over 2,000 students this morning telling them they were accepted when in fact they were the wait list group.</p>
<p>Clarify....they sent out emails to request self-reported mid-year grades from the EA accepted students, and it went out to some of the RD applicants (cut-off for RD was 1-23). They sent out follow-up emails (multiple ones) to explain the error. This is different than "false acceptances."</p>
<p>The link you had worked just fine a minute ago. </p>
<p>I assume that by "wait list" they actually mean deferred, as in those from the early pool who were deferred. I don't think they actually waitlist anyone in the early round.</p>
<p>What an awful situation for those kids who received the mistaken email. My S has several friends who were deferred, so perhaps I'll hear more about this when I see him later on today. I can't imagine the emotional roller coaster those kids must have endured in first finding out a couple of weeks ago that they were deferred, then getting the email congratulating them on their acceptance, and then getting the correction.</p>
<p>From the Daily Tar Heel today:</p>
<p>Admissions accidentally sends acceptance letters</p>
<p>The UNC Office of Undergraduate Admissions mistakenly sent out 2,703 e-mails Tuesday to applicants congratulating them on their acceptance and requesting their midyear grades.</p>
<p>The error came as a result of two simultaneous human errors, and the students affected later received notifications that they are still under review and had not yet been accepted to the University, according to a press release from the office.</p>
<p>The e-mail, which was sent to second-deadline applicants, was intended to request midyear grades from these applicants.</p>
<p>Instead, the message read "Congratulations again on your admission to the University. We require all admitted students to submit midyear grades to us online," according to the press release.</p>
<p>All second-deadline candidates are still under review.</p>
<p>How miserable for the students.</p>
<p>Oh, ok. So neither deferred nor waitlisted. Still hard to deal with the up and down of the two emails, but not as bad as having gotten the deferral notice a few weeks ago first and then the two now.</p>
<p>My friend told me that yesterday - They got a "congratulations" email, but when they called they were told it was a mistake. oops.</p>
<p>It wasn't like they sent out big envelopes, but applicants did receive an email that said, "congrats on your accceptance" while requesting additional info.</p>
<p>It is entirely too easy to click a button on a computer.</p>
<p>LOL, my son got turned down from a university last spring and then somehow ended up on a mailing list the same year (summer/fall), inviting him to apply for admissions for the next cycle (you know the letters, Hi so-and-so, based on your outstanding achievement you are the type of student we look for blah, blah..). Kind of makes you wonder about the level of competence at some of the so called elite colleges.</p>
<p>Actual press release:</p>
<p>Wonder why these 2700 RD applicants were somehow segregated from the other RD applicants.</p>
<p>So according to the press release, some 2000 students went to bed thinking they got in, went to school and probably told people, and then got the "correction". I can only imagine how those kids feel. (That was always my nightmare when I got a job or an honor or something - that they'd come back and say, "Oh, we're sorry; we didn't mean you.")</p>
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<p>Sounds like these were ED II applicants.</p>
<p>I don't remember, but I didn't think UNC-CH had ED II. Maybe this is something new?</p>
<p>I just wonder if these 2700 weren't already in an accept pile, and coded as such....and out of fairness to everyone else who applied, UNC wanted to honor the notification deadlines. After all, it would even harsher to find out you are rejected by inference. </p>
<p>Just a stretch in reasoning I know...but I wonder how just certain people 'accidentally' are designated to received such an email.</p>
<p>UNC doesn't have ED II (or ED, for that matter. Just EA).</p>
<p>UNC does not have any ED, just EA. And the EA acceptances are sent out around this time of year.</p>
<p>Sorry; bad assumption on my part, based on the "second-deadline" comments in the press release.</p>
<p>My son received the erroneous email. His first thought was, "This can't be right." First, the email said, "Congratulations, again, on your admission..." He knew that he hadn't been congratulated before. Also, the email came less than two weeks after he submitted his application and months before a decision was promised. I hope that most kids would have at least considered the possibility that UNC made a mistake. What a drag, though.</p>
<p>Something somewhat similar happened to my son last year on his online application/account with UVA. The, "You've Been Accepted," that was printed on his admittance page was clearly a mistake, since it came out way before the official notification date (he did call to check just in case ;)). It wasn't quite as bad as with UNC, since you had to have checked your account just at the right time, or you would have missed it. He copied it before it was erased, and had a lot of fun showing his friends at school who were also waiting to hear from UVA.</p>