Carnegie Mellon University just joined the ranks of MIT, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, and other elite schools that have recently broken hearts through a technology glitch, by mistakenly e-mailing hundreds of applicants that they'd been accepted. The admissions office incorrectly sent an e-mail on Monday to about 800 people who'd applied to the university's master's program in computer science, university spokesperson Ken Walters confirmed.

 

"We understand the disappointment created by this mistake, and deeply apologize to the applicants for this miscommunication," Walters says. "We are currently reviewing our notification process to help ensure this does not happen in the future."

 

The e-mail, which was first obtained by Gawker, told applicants, "You are one of the select few, less than 9 percent of the more than 1,200 applicants, that we are inviting. ... Welcome to Carnegie Mellon!"

 

Not sure why it's coming up word violation on URL. lol

 

 

Carnegie MellonMistakenly Admits 800 Students - Bloomberg Business

Edited February 18, 201511 yr by mcpapa

I have a little bit of a hard time that it was a computer glitch, while I guess it is possible. I work in NKU's Admissions Office for a year and we used a program probably similar to theirs to send mass emails. They can call it a computer glitch, but I bet someone just set the email program up wrong by mistake.