Monday, April 6, 2009

By 'Yes,' We Mean 'No'

I'm pretty sure this is how I got into grad school.
NEW YORK - New York University officials weren't laughing when hundreds of people mistakenly received word that they'd been accepted to grad school on April Fools' Day.

NYU says it sent out acceptance e-mails April 1 to 489 applicants to the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Those applicants should have received rejection letters instead.

The school sent out a second e-mail about an hour later to the applicants, saying they hadn't been accepted after all.
NYU spokesman Robert Polner blamed the mixup on a clerical error. He says the school apologizes for the mistaken e-mails and is looking into it to prevent it from happening again.

1 comment:

courtney said...

That would be sooooo crappy! For everybody (the poor person that actually sent them out?!?) Damn.