More than 5,000 prospective students have mistakenly been notified by email that they’ve been accepted into an upstate New York university.
University at Buffalo spokesman John DellaContrada says the mistaken email was sent Wednesday to students whose applications hadn’t been fully reviewed. He says the university sent a second email about three to four hours later notifying the students of the gaffe and apologizing for it.
The university posted a statement on its website saying the “miscommunication occurred when an incorrect email list was generated from an applicant database.”
The statement says it’s important to note the students who received the mistaken email are still being considered for acceptance by the university.
The University at Buffalo has about 30,000 students.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
All of the student applicants involved should apply at another college/university. Make them pay for this stupidity.
EXACTLY….this is so bad for those students! NO ANSWER is good enough for this happening. THEY SHOULD ALL GET A FREE RIDE FOR THIS ERROR!
The person who is responsible should be fired on the spot. If the person who did this graduated from that University it doesn’t say much for them. Also, you could have received the acceptance notice and gone out to celebrate with friends or family, and then it would be a big let down and embarrassment to hear it was an error. Not everyone would be around a few hours later to receive the news of their error, and could have received it much later after notifying family and friends. Typical of today’s work force.