<p>k1k2k3, my daughter was waitlisted last year and did not get invited to attend the admitted students open house. that is only for kids officially “in”. for any of you who do get waitlisted, if you want to attend UDel, return the letter IMMEDIATELY that requests you be kept on their list. my daughter did that and got in very quickly after the May 1st deadline.</p>
<p>cjurgens52- You are probably fine. As far as I know, those of us who saw our status change from accepted to…who knows… had a few things in common. Our status and list of to do items never changed in the right side blue bar, we never had a link to award dollars (and most of us expect none) and I think most still have the waiting for FAFSA message. Congrats!</p>
<p>I would think that UD wouldn’t send out an invite then take it back. But seeing how it happened to someone else, who then got waitlisted, is scary to us all. I just don’t get why all of our accounts don’t say our status? Maybe it is released in waves?</p>
<p>My heart really goes out to all the students and parents who are stressing right now. The whole process is ridiculous. I am grateful that my son never even checked his mybluehen and simply got a letter in the mail saying he was waitlisted. </p>
<p>Pitt doesn’t update decisions online-only notifications by mail. At first I thought this seemed outdated but after seeing the glitches that occured first at Penn State and now at Delaware it seems like a lot of unnecessary stress and heartache for these kids. Especially after they have waiting more than three months to hear from Delaware about a decision. </p>
<p>I hope they make things right this week. Good luck to all.</p>
<p>To inform you all, errors like this have happened in the past at colleges besides Penn State. Two years ago, when my D was a senior, it happened at University of California San Diego (I’m 95% sure it was San Diego). Emails were sent out to tens of thousands of students saying they had been accepted and it was a mistake. It was all over the papers, and it personally affected one of my D’s best friends, who received the email but was NOT admitted.</p>
<p>If this happened to a lot of people, no, realistically they can not honor the mistake. There’s only so many spots!</p>
<p>rrjs82- I doubt this happened to a large number of people. Even among the highly obsessed crowd here, few checked in on Friday early enough to see the Decision Day invite. It was up for about 6-7 hours are far as I can tell. Fewer than that actually scheduled a decision day. </p>
<p>It is a shame that more care could not have been taken in this age of instant information. This was D’s #1 choice so her reaction was to immediately share her joy with everyone. Now she waits and dreads telling all those who congratulated her that the big, shiny, personalized acceptance page was wrong.</p>
<p>Where’s U Del in this? it would be an atrocious mistake to issue congratulations messages online…but 2 days later not to have sent emails correcting the issue? They know 100% of the kids the booked DD and SHOULDN’T have been invited…so why haven’t they contacted anyone? I was out last night and met a couple who said their kid got into U Del and I asked if they knew about these problems (I was trying to restrain myself)</p>
<p>GET THIS-the kid SAW the acceptance on the DD link, signed up for DD and still thought (like many I bet who aren’t on this forum) he was accepted AND GOING to UD. EVEN WORSE, he contacted many of this other to TURN DOWN THEIR OFFERS!!! </p>
<p>They actually left the party in a panic…the offer wasn;t there anymore!!! This is really HUGE and if UD knows of these errors, not addressing them days ago when they started changing the Blue Hen Home is kinda negligent!</p>
<p>Just got an email from UD explaining that I was one of the 11 students the register for the event and it was a mistake on their part. They seemed very serious and asked for the best time to call me on monday. If only 11 registered that weren’t admitted/ maybe waitlisted maybe they’ll do something for us?</p>
<p>Back in december Udel had a day where there accidently put up acceptances and quicky changed it.</p>
<p>That’s terrible about turning down other schools! Thank goodness we didn’t do that. I did tell my daughter briefly about the problem…she gets home from school before I do and I didn’t want her to be the first to open mail with no idea that she might be waitlisted or rejected. She was pretty mad…told me not to look at these status pages again and just to wait for the mail. I will try. We are waiting for 3 more schools including Delaware. She already has some good choices, but Delaware was at the top of her list. I personally have been very distressed about this. It adds an unnecessary dimension of anxiety and emotion to what is already a difficult time. Good luck to all of you in the next day or two…</p>
<p>vivalaslex, I am so sorry to hear you had to ride this emotional roller coaster, but I am glad to see UDel has stepped up to the plate. </p>
<p>So, your actual status in the real world, not cyberspace, is waitlisted? If so, I would be cautiously optimistic that they will try to bump you to the top of that waitlist, seems like the correct thing to do on their part. </p>
<p>Did you also have your information disappear on the blue hen page yesterday prior to them contacting you?</p>
<p>Hope for the best, it may all work out in the end and this will all be history.</p>
<p>We have read with concern this thread on College Confidential and believe we should respond to the families who are experiencing such uncertainty at this time. All of our admission decisions are released to students via the U.S. Postal Service. Our web portal (“My Blue Hen Home”) does, however, include opportunities to sign up for campus visit programs. Before they received their letters from us, eleven students who had been waitlisted or denied admission used that portal to sign up for an admitted student program in April, and that sign-up screen does include the word, “congratulations.” </p>
<p>We take this matter seriously and brought staff in over the weekend to repair the technological error. We have contacted each of these eleven students via e-mail and are scheduling phone calls with all for Monday, March 15. Please know that we take our actions seriously and are working with each family individually on an appropriate resolution. While we realize that this will not stop the conversation on College Confidential, we believe it is our responsibility to inform the public of the current situation.</p>
<p>We also received the email, one of 11 to get this error. Will be talking to UD tomorrow. Also D’s first, and really only, choice. Not that hasn’t been accepted elsewhere, she has, but she LOVED UD from the first tour and it is really the only place she truly wants to go!</p>
<p>Awful about the kid who contacted other schools! I agree that this should have been addressed as soon as UD knew there was a problem, Friday night. Hopefully this error can be resolved positively for everyone, UD included. Certainly there was no malice, but many missteps and lots of anguish.</p>
<p>Are they Kidding??? My son has been on the fence about the other two colleges he got into. U Del was the only one that he was actually excited about. How will they deal with this? Also, if the student is not accepted, why is there a link on the page about the waiting for the FAFSA?</p>
<p>@Doris. Not to minimize the error, but many schools request or have FAFSA deadlines prior to a student’s acceptance. This way they can send out admissions letters and financial aid information in one package. Two of the schools we applied to had March 1 FAFSA deadlines even though we don’t expect decisions until April.</p>
<p>It’s sad. So many kids and folks were affected by this. Even the kids who should be enjoying their acceptances (if they haven’t gotten a letter) are anxious and nervous when it should be a joyful time! In the event that only 11 kids were involved, hundreds more saw the the congratulations message and didn’t respond…and now know they didn’t get in (if they’re on CC), I’m worried about those kids who just saw the congrats and aren’t privy to all of this and didn’t see U dels post or get an email. I’ve been keeping this controversy from my kid. I told him “there MIGHT be an issue with the acceptance”. He’s a pretty honorable kid. I don’t know if he’d want to go to a school that didn’t want him? I wish U Del would just extend invites (if in fact, these kids were wait listed and there are very few) or not. It’s been five months since his first acceptance 2 months since his 11th. He’s gotta decide. He was going to go stay with his buddy for the weekend and check it out…no doubt more fun for him than a Decision Day luncheon. I guess I have to sit him down and tell him it was an out and out mistake? It will be sad, he was very proud he got in…if they just changed his Blue Hen Home he wouldn’t know the better. He’d be horrified if he knew he wasn’t initially accepted and got in on a glitch. I don’t know what to do?</p>
<p>"Our web portal (“My Blue Hen Home”) does, however, include opportunities to sign up for campus visit programs. Before they received their letters from us, eleven students who had been waitlisted or denied admission used that portal to sign up for an admitted student program in April, and that sign-up screen does include the word, “congratulations.” delawareadm</p>
<p>They didn’t inappropriately use a portal, as is implied, (words do matter). They responded to an invitation posted on their blue hen page. There were also more words than ‘congratulations’, “Congratulations on Your Acceptance to the University of Delaware!”, to be exact, along with the student’s name and DD dates and information.</p>
<p>If your son is one of the 11 and checks his email, he’ll know…my child got one. I am glad Delaware is addressing the problem now rather than letting people come home to find rejection/waitlisting letters. Not sure a phone conversation can help; they already apologized…what more is there to say? My child is worried that the conversation will be very awkward…neither parent will be around to help.</p>
<p>Udel15: I totally missed the tone of that message, but on rereading it, you are right. I believe they encourage prospects to check the portal and there are no warnings about opening selected links that they shouldn’t open…the poor students did not do anything wrong here…</p>
<p>I am trying to understand the exact conditions under which you would know if your “congratulations” was a mistake, please correct me if I am wrong. </p>
<p>It would seems that for the 11 who did register for a visit, there are many more who received the invite, didn’t register, and may be in jeopardy of having been actually waitlisted/denied. And these people will NOT receive emails because UDel has no accountablility to them as there is no proof they actually received the initital message.</p>
<p>If that’s the case, what clue is there on the my blue hen page to know whether or not you are one of that bunch? On the flip sice, if you did register and didn’t get the email, can you indeed feel confident that you were truly accepted?</p>