@Guitar321 You allege that the 130 students who incorrectly received the welcome immediately withdrew their EA applications sacrificing their spots at other Universities. You are making an assumption that in the short 3-hour time frame in the afternoon (before the retraction email was sent to each of these students) while the students were presumably in school, that they actually withdrew their other EA applications. I highly doubt that more than a few, if any, of the 130 students actually withdrew their other EA applications during this short 3-hour window during the school day. And even if they did, I cannot imagine any consequential harm occurring to them by giving up “the confidentiality of their ED application to Tulane.” While this error was unfortunate, it is unfair–and I argue it would taint the admission process, to allow these 130 students to be admitted if their academic and overall qualifications are. not up to Tulane typical admissions criteria, just because of this mistake. It would not be fair to other applicants. Notwithstanding the above, i understand that of the 130 students whose credentials are slightly below the typical admissible range, Tulane is doing its best to admit them. For example, some students were admitted for spring 2018, something Tulane has not done before and would not have done but for trying to remedy this error.