How would you like to be on the admissions staff of UCSD today?

[KitchenWitch]

"LA JOLLA — It was not an early April Fool's joke. For Arya Shamuilian, it was worse.

The high school senior from Rancho Cucamonga was among nearly 30,000 people who received an e-mail this week congratulating them on admission to the University of California San Diego – only to learn that campus officials had sent the e-mails in error.

“This was just a catastrophe,” Arya, 17, said yesterday. “UCSD was my first-choice university.”

The campus e-mail, sent about 5 p.m. Monday, invited students to an orientation and began with these warm words: “We're thrilled that you've been admitted to UC San Diego . . . ”

Admissions director Mae Brown said the invitations were supposed to be sent to about 18,000 students admitted by the university. Instead, they went to all 47,000 who applied, including those who had already been rejected.

Brown said officials quickly realized their mistake.

“The minute the e-mails were sent out, we noted that it was sent to a much larger pool than was admitted,” she said.

Within two hours, the university sent out another blanket e-mail, this one an apology. In that note, Brown said she understood “the level of distress” the mistake may have caused students."

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/01/1m1ucsd011031-ucsd-e-mail-mistakenly-sent-denied-a/

[av8rdave]

1. Seems the least they could do is throw in a free degree

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That just SUCKS...

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