01-30-2012, 05:37 PM
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Quite a bit of national coverage of this messy situation, including the role of CC: For Some Vassar Applicants, Joy Then Misery as College Corrects Mistake - New York Times Quote:
Word spread quickly among the applicants, many of whom had been communicating on the Web site College Confidential in the days before the decisions were to be released, sharing their well-wishes and trepidation.
Ms. Curiel heard from a classmate who had also been told he was accepted. Mr. Ghedira found out early Saturday morning. “He was so happy, he wanted to read it again,” his mother, Sonia Ghedira, said Saturday, adding that her son was too distraught to come to the telephone.
At 5:11 p.m. Friday, the first panicked message hit the College Confidential message board: “Now it says I’m declined??????”
“Accepted at 4, reject at 5,” read another. “I don’t understand.”
| Vassar Is Sorry for Accepting 76 Applicants and Then Rejecting Them - (Gratuitous stereotyping) via Gawker.com Quote: |
Over at College Confidential, mecca for helicopter parents and their overachieving children, Francois—"one of the 76"—has compared his misery to that of a lighthouse in a stormy sea...
| Does Vassar College owe the wrongly accepted students anything beyond an apology? - NYTimes.com Quote: |
To rub salt into the wound, the Vassar admissions office called it a week andmatter-of-factly posted, “If after checking your decision again you still have questions, please feel free to contact the Admissions Office on Monday morning.” After such a major gaffe, it’s unbelievable to me that there was no one on the end of a telephone to provide some cold comfort or at the very least to apologize. It’s unbelievable that a kid who, as one applicant posted on College Confidential’s Web site, “was accepted at 4, reject at 5. I don’t understand…” would be abandoned, along with all the others, for an entire weekend.
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