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Carnegie Mellon accidentally accepts – then rejects – 800 applicants
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About 800 Carnegie Mellon University applicants were accepted Monday by the school's graduate program in computer science by mistake, The Associated Press reports. The students later received letters saying they had actually been rejected.
A university spokesman said "serious mistakes" caused the letters to be sent.
"We understand the disappointment created by this mistake and deeply apologize to the applicants for this miscommunication," said the spokesman, Kenneth Walters. He added that the university will be reviewing the process for generating the messages.
Ben Leibowitz of Stamford, Connecticut, is one of the students who was "accepted," then rejected.
"Now I have to clean up the mess," he told the AP. "I'm calling all my relatives, I'm going, 'I'm sorry it's not happening.'"
