After spending grueling hours last fall researching colleges, writing essays, seeking letter of recommendations, and filling out applications, most high school seniors would agree that right now all they can think about is whether or not their colleges have accepted them. This is an emotional time for students. There's the thrill of being accepted and the pain of being rejected.
Earlier this week, UCSD erroneously sent out an email to 28,000 students welcoming them to the campus for Admit Day (new student orientation) - after already being rejected. This email was intended to be sent to about 18,000 students who were already accepted, of the more than 46,000 applicants.
As painful this was for many students, UCSD is not the first or only campus to have made this type of administrative error. Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern University's prestigious Kellogg School of Management have made similar admission notification mistakes in the last five years, but UCSD's mistake was by far the biggest.
To read more about UCSD's blunder, click here. If you want to continue reading about this topic, view these related articles.
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