<p>Assuming that Vassar has not started reading their RD applications yet, how about moving these 76 to the RD pool? I’m assuming that Vassar does not usually defer in the ED round?</p>
<p>Just a thought…</p>
<p>The only reason not to would be if their stats only fell outside of Vassar’s 25-75%…</p>
<p>I do agree that automatically admitting them is not a wise choice in a class of 600 incoming freshman…this is not a UDel situation…</p>
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<p>I’ve been in contact with Kareen. As usual, the NYT twisted the facts.</p>
<p>Kareen’s note to me, which she gave permission to post.</p>
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<p>The original poster said, “I can’t believe this happened again.” Was the first time the U. of Delaware thing? That’s why I was asking for clarification. I’m going to change my original post so as not to start a rumor that makes this sound worse than it is! </p>
<p>I do think, btw, that calling this “a tragic situation” as mathgirl21 did, is a rhetorical bridge too far. It’s not tragic by any definition of tragedy I know of!</p>
<p>absweetmarit, last year it was UDel. Maybe that is what you are thinking?</p>
<p>And this was ED 2, so they probably all applied other places as well already. I know a lot of people wait to submit other apps when applying ED 1 but I can’t imagine someone applying ED 2 knowing that the answer doesn’t get released until after most schools deadlines not sending out other apps.</p>
<p>letting them all in is crazy…it was a mistake…less than a day. They didn’t make the cut, move on.
I guess the people who pop the champagne are the same people who are absolutely devastated when they get rejected to their “dream school”. It’s 4 years of your life…</p>
<p>geeps20,</p>
<p>Some people do not need all that much provocation to pop a bottle of champagne (I count myself among these people). In any case, everyone is going to move on, of course. It still is an unfortunate mistake and it’s easy to understand people’s severe disappointment. It’s a rather significant four years of one’s life, no? I don’t see a need to be dismissive of people’s indignation.</p>
<p>^it’s a significant 4 years no matter where you go to college. Would parents really want their kids to back door into a college that rejected them? I certainly wouldn’t be fighting for my kid to be admitted after this mess…quite the opposite.</p>
<p>I don’t think Vassar is large enough to accept an additional 76 students that easily.</p>
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<p>absweetmarie, I just meant the situation where a school screws up their decision notifications, not specifically Vassar. Sorry for the confusion ;-)</p>
<p>My first thought was how so many kids moan about the colleges which only send decisions through snail mail instead of online and how that those schools should get with the program and enter the 21st Century. </p>
<p>I’m sure the students who got rejected are absolutely gutted.</p>
<p>Didn’t something like this also happen a few years back? I can’t remember the name of the school or if the accepted/rejected news came via USPS or email, but I recall being in lurk mode and reading about it on CC. One of the big differences today is how fast kids post/text admittance decisions. I’m amazed at how fast this information is known to family/friends.</p>
<p>When ds got admitted to schools we cheered, then he called his grandparents, who also cheered. Imo it is a big deal, at least it was in this house! We didn’t pop champagne as ds is 17, but we definitely were ecstatic in this household. </p>
<p>I can’t imagine after that getting it rescinded! It was ed, so like the Vassar folks, the top choice.</p>
<p>I agree you can’t let them in, but they sure have major egg on their face. I realize it was operator error, but that was a horrible little detail to overlook.</p>
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<p>Wholeheartedly agree!</p>
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<p>Shouldn’t the IT people have set things up in a test environment? If they were my IT staff, they’d have some ‘splainin’ to do. But: Water under the bridge. Just hope other schools take heed to eliminate the risk of this happening to their applicants. Nevertheless, perspective is called for; after all is said and done, it’s not wrong-site surgery we’re talking about here.</p>
<p>It is expensive to have different environment for development, testing and production, so I am not sure if a place like Vassar would have a budget for that. I know some schools, like Cornell, have out sourced notification service after their servers crashed on every notification date.</p>
<p>^That’s what I get for hanging around IT people who hand out links to “test site this” and “dev site that” without batting an eye. Everyone can use a little perspective, eh? ;)</p>
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<p>Since the decisions were released at the end of the business day, even if a student began the withdrawal process immediately upon receiving their Vassar decision, I doubt if the schools have acted on them yet. Affected students could send another e-mail, contact the school Monday morning stating that they withdrew in error or have their counselor contact the school to explain what happened. Given the circumstances, it would not be hard to reinstate the applications.</p>
<p>oldfort - not that expensive - certainly not compared to the cost they just experienced in loss of good will. </p>
<p>IMO, there is no excuse these days not to have a dev, test and production environment - a linux box with two processors is a few thousand dollars - or you use Amazon (or any number of other vendors) cloud environment.</p>
<p>It depends more on the head of the IT managers and company CEOs than the cost.
I have seen a financial company backed up the database everynight but at the time to restore the data nothing came out of the tapes because they never tested the backup/restore process.</p>
<p>Wow. Our child just found out they got into their top choice the same time we read this article…we sure could empathize.</p>
<p>I still think they should accept the 76. Maybe ‘not fair’ to the others in the regular pool, but what is fair? It is an illusion that somehow a given school (especially one that can’t even manage emails properly) can wave the magic ‘holistic’ wand and truly discern the ‘deserving’ and ‘qualified’ from those who are not. </p>
<p>If a school in a given year shrinks its admissions, or heavily advertises to get a huge onslaught, or joins the common app so the competition goes way up…is that ‘fair’ to the applicants? You throw your hat into the ring and some hats are pulled out. It’s not like the the regular applicants didn’t send in tons of applications elsewhere or that this was their first choice.</p>