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Carnegie-Mellon Sends Hundreds of Acceptance Letters By Mistake

Posted by timothy on from the about-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes As reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Carnegie-Mellon University mistakenly sent 800 acceptances for its Master of Science in Computer Science program. They're not saying "computer error," but what are the other explanations? High irony all around. The program accepts fewer than nine percent of more than 1,200 applicants, which places the acceptance level at about a hundred, so they're bad at math, too.

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  1. Re:hmmm... by sribe · · Score: 5, Informative

    I suspect those that turned down other university offers for this one, only to find out they weren't accepted and no have no-where to go...

    The email was corrected within 7 hours--pretty unlikely there are any damages to anyone other than the huge disappointment.