Whoops.
On February 17, Carnegie Mellon mistakenly sent acceptance emails to 800 students that had applied for graduate level education in computer science at the school. The university, well known for its competitive computer science program, attributed the accidental acceptances to severe glitches in the school’s process of generating acceptance emails. Carnegie Mellon then sent follow-up emails to each of the 800 students letting them know that they had actually been rejected.
Carnegie Mellon’s computer science graduate school is among the most selective in the nation. The master’s program usually has around 1200 applicants, and the school accepts 100 of them for an acceptance percentage of 9 percent.
The school isn’t the first prestigious institution to accept students it meant to reject. In December, Johns Hopkins accidentally accepted 300 students who had applied for undergraduate admissions, while in February 2014, MIT unintentionally sent emails to thousands of applicants saying that they had been accepted.
Read more at The Huffington Post
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