<p>Appreciate your input. I thought it was a fluke when the first admission officer referred to my child in an admission letter by a younger sibling with an unusual name. This sibling is a high achiever but barley in the double digits. Low and behold, this top 50 school did it again but used a second child's name in the Dear...part after being advised of the error. I intercepted the letter before child applying read it. Thoughts on this situation and how to approach senior without hurt feelings? Child was seriously considering going oos to this school next year.</p>
<p>I’m confused, can you try to reword it? Which child received a letter (rejection? Acceptance?) With whose name?</p>
<p>Your post is impossible to make any sense of. You have an admission letter in hand and one applicant who applied there in the house? Call the admissions office to clarify, if this letter has the wrong name on it.</p>
<p>Acceptance Letter with Dear… Sibling # 1 name
Acceptance Email with Dear… Sibling # 2 name</p>
<p>Neither one of children named above applied to the school. Child # 3 that applied knows about the first time but not the second.</p>
<p>How did they get the names of the other two children? Can you log into a portal to see if he actually got accepted?</p>
<p>Yes formally accepted via portal. It appears to be a computer error as information crossed with application.</p>
<p>I think you should call and speak to the head of admissions and tell them what happened…it may be a glitch somewhere they definitely need to address. You can tell them that, although you are thrilled your child was accepted, it could cause some hard feelings and cast some doubt as to the organization of their department. I would think they would want to know that this was happening. On some applications it asks for siblings names and ages so it could be an administrative error but, nonetheless, it is an error that should not be made when handing out acceptances!</p>
<p>So the child #3 portal under child’s name shows acceptance. If they want that school, accept the offer.</p>
<p>I, too, am wondering HOW they got the other kids’ names if those younger kids never applied.</p>
<p>Formally fixed–clerical error but happened again yesterday. Considering accepting their offer and enrolling my little peanut in the senior’s place 
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<p>mom2collegekids: I know that for one college I applied to they asked for sibling information… just names and grades. Probably to target them with mailings, but who knows. (They’re not on the Common App, so it was their own app.)</p>