My D got her email today as well. It is not the first school that the email showed up days after the portal update. She was glad to see if arrive nonetheless! Congratulations to your DS.
I hope it starts running smoother for everyone still waiting.
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Congratulaions to DS and your whole family! Now, if everyone else could receive their notifications and their full financial packages, everyone could get on with the decision-making. Letās hope that housing assignments (if needed) and course registration goes much smoother. 
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It was a relief to get that congrats email and cute video! Itās real! Things have been so messed up with CMU that I was a little afraid they screwed up on Friday and were gonna take some acceptances back (like another school I read about recently).
We are all signed up for an admitted student day - very excited to see campus for first time!
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Congratulations! Iām very curious - what school took back acceptances?!
Same? What school did that? I have heard of rescinding offers because of academic failures after admission but straight up saying whoops? Super curious what school did that?
Yeah, same. TBH I think this is a pretty questionable filter for this sort of decision making. I know that the poster in question has other (apparently preferred) options, and so maybe this doesnāt apply to them. And I know that this is a fraught, emotional time. To put it mildly!
But making a decision on where to spend 4 years of your life living and learning and communing with others, years which will serve as the launch pad for an awful lot of stuff, based on how the admissions office handles this sort of stuff is kind of like, I donāt know, letting a CSR determine your decision on which IT solution to use for your F500 company (no shade intended toward AOsā¦or CSRs).
Case is getting this sort of treatment this cycle as well. CalPoly too. Both had/have some hiccups this time around.
And look. They of course should get it right! The stakes are high obviously.
But is it really reflective of the institution? The education youāll receive? The experiences youāll have? Iāll grant - maybe sorta kinda if absolutely every corner of the institution canāt quite get it 100% together 100% of the timeā¦maybe?
Butā¦I dunno. Makes me sad.
Iāll probably get roasted for this, but Iām fine with that. Flame on!
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Indiana University. In the past couple days according to a parent on another group, they admitted their child and then emailed a short while later that it was an error.
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Oh, I am so happy that you received your email confirmation and can now breathe a little easier! I hope you have a great campus visit!
I find it unconscionable that a school rescinded offers for anything other than serious grade erosion in the absence of mitigating circumstances. I read of one school that inadvertently sent acceptances to the entire wait list, and the school honored every one of those acceptances.
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Indiana University. I donāt want to post a screenshot here because it wasnāt CC.
Ugh! Ok - well at least CMU didnāt go that far. Iāll give CMU credit for that.
That is horrible! I feel for that kid.
Even top schools make the bleep. Columbia in 2017, for example.
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No roasting from me. I have made my share of mistakes; some minor, some great big bungles that affected others. I apologized and tried to correct things as quickly as possible. I hope people recognized that my blunders were not on purpose and that I tried my best to rectify the situation. In return, I think I need to give others some consideration when dealing with their own messes. I do, however, wish that CMU would come right out and apologize in addition to thanking applicants and their families for their patience/understanding. Perhaps an apology will come once they emerge from their processing nightmare. Although it has been hellish for those anxiously awaiting decisions, I suspect it has also been a bit catastrophic for CMU.
While sad, I do understand that families with other equally or more appealing options may choose to punt on CMU. My GS had a horrible time with the application and audition requirements at one particular school (from which he has yet to hear a decision). They kept changing the requirements and due dates without notifying applicants who had already submitted videos according to the previously stated reqs. And different representatives of the school handed out different information. It was very frustrating for everyone, but trying to turn it into a life learning experience for him. GS hasnāt withdrawn his application and will wait to see the results. If accepted and the offer is in the running, heāll be checking to see how smoothly other administrative areas of the school are run before accepting an offer.
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That is terrible!
That is just awful.
This is an important point for sure. How they (try to) make it right is very important. I do wonder whether theyāre all still running around like chickens with their heads cut off at the moment, way too in the weeds trying to fix things to contemplate an apology or clear course of communication from here. That follow up post on Instagram sort of speaks to this.
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This is embarrassing for CMU. Someone must have lost their job over this fiasco.
Oh, I agree! I can clearly see those headless chickens furiously scrambling to figure out and fix whatever is wrong, especially after Mondayās second attempt at releasing decisions went sideways. And I do think that the follow-up Instagram post was an attempt to contain the negative PR and assure the public that they were working hard to remedy the situation - it just didnāt go quite far enough on the apology front. Hoping theyāll tend to that once they are out from under their technical challenges.
In the meantime, Iām sending good wishes for lots of fortitude to the families left waiting for answers. 
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Yeah, but if it was just a glitch or error, why are they not correcting it and then announcing the rest of the decisions? Their message to others on this thread that they will announce the next batch on Friday makes me wonder if this is all, indeed, part of an intentional batch process.
Trust me, I work in Tech. What seems like a trivial glitch might sometimes be a major mess in the Cloud backend. It appears that they went with a new system and possibly with a new IT team that failed them miserably. CMU feels the egg on their face after having attempted twice and Iām sure they want to get it right when the go live next time.
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