Hopkins did it this year with the ED applicants. If you look up the ED thread here you’ll read some of the funniest, most satirical remarks. Made me wish that JHU had accepted these kids bc they’re so funny under the worse circumstances. Would make great classmates.
Guessing that with a few more screw-ups, it’ll be common practice among students to wait a week before celebrating their acceptances.
If the rejected kids at any of these schools that have done this are half as witty as the jhu kids, it’s truly the university’s loss.
IF this sort of thing happens with ED kids (like JHU), It just enables people to justify not pulling their other apps for awhile…until their acceptances are more certain.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/02/17/carnegie-mellon-tells-800-rejected-applicants-theyre-in/ Another “oops”. Anyone else find it mildly ironically amusing that it was an error in accepting students to their masters in computer science program. And 800?? To a masters program? Big ouch error.
There is an interesting follow-up article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of the possible legal ramifications of this error. http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2015/02/19/Is-there-a-legal-case-for-students-spurned-by-Carnegie-Mellon/stories/201502190127
The larger the school, the more likely admissions letters are to be automated. One little glitch somewhere in the program or in the data entry can mean a huge mistake. At times, I detest working in an office that is insanely manual … but when I see things like this, I realize that it does help me avoid this sort of mistake. 
@kelsmom Too true.
On Monday I received an email stating I was admitted to a college overseas that I attended 30 years ago! The following day I received a follow-up that said yesterday’s “email was sent to you in error and occurred as a result of a mail merge problem within our database. If you have received this email we apologise for the inconvenience caused and ask that you ignore the email.”
After D’s grandmother heard this story, she called all concerned and asked me whether we are really sure that D was accepted into her EA school. She said that maybe that was a mistake too. . . .