<p>I understand the hard feelings, sadness, and anger over what happened. Something happened with the technology that was an unfortunate mistake. The bottom line is the University of Delaware does not have the capacity to admit all of the students that had this problem. Since they promise to guarantee all 4 years of housing, they simply cannot fulfill this promise if they admit all of these students.</p>
<p>The bottom line is some of these kids were denied outright and were not judged to fit the University of Delaware. I am not trying to stand up for what happened, it is truly a dream crusher and unfortunate. If UD placed all of these kids on the waitlist, they may be ruining the chance of others who were actually waitlisted to begin with.</p>
<p>What happened was unfortunate, but these families deserve their time to grieve, but they need to also move on. Just because the website said “Congratulations” does not change the fact that that student was denied and whether or not they attempted to sign up for the Decision Day does not change the fact that they were rejected or waitlisted. It seems we are arguing over the fact that this happened, when in reality the decision didn’t actually change, that student was still denied or waitlisted.</p>
<p>It was a glitch in the technology and nothing that UD could control. Let’s stop blaming UD for something they could not control and stop having the media say “UD ripped up these admissions right in their faces” just to sell their stories. UD never ripped up those admissions because those students were not admitted in the first place</p>