jym626
April 1, 2009, 7:26am
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The University of California, San Diego accidentally sent a welcome e-mail to about 29,000 applicants who had been rejected.</p>
<p>The e-mail sent Monday evening invited all 47,000 students who applied to an admitted students’ day on campus.</p>
<p>UCSD Admissions Director Mae Brown apologized for the mistake Tuesday and explained that the e-mail was supposed to go to about 18,000 accepted students.</p>
<p>Less than two hours after the error, she sent out another mass e-mail apologizing for distress it may have caused to anxious applicants and their families, Brown told The Associated Press.</p>
<p>“In all humility, I ask that you please accept my apologies and those of the University of California, San Diego,” she wrote.</p>
<p>The entire staff of the admissions office spent Tuesday taking calls and e-mails from distraught applicants, she said.</p>
<p>“We’ve been dealing with calls from parents, students and counselors, asking if our original decision to deny has been reversed,” she said.
It would have been a bad April Fools Day joke had it been intentional…</p>
<p>A mistake like this can sure cause emotional upheavals for those who thought they were rejected, then thought maybe they were in, then found out they were truly rejected.</p>