Mar 17
Students Accepted to, Rejected From College After Computer Glitch
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The University of Delaware did some serious backtracking after a computer glitch caused the school to mistakenly accept 61 out-of-state students for next year’s fall semester. The school sent acceptance notifications to the students on March 12th. The university has since had to issue a correction, adding half to a waiting list and outright rejecting the other half.
The school’s admissions director Louis Hirsh told the press that the university felt terrible, but it could have been worse–it could have been 62 students. “To have a blunder like this cause such pain is terrible,” explained Hirsh. “I’m grateful it’s not more students, it’s just 61. But for those 61 kids–my heart goes out to them.”
In all, the University of Delaware accepted 2,400 non-computer glitch students for next fall.
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