About 800 applicants to Carnegie Mellon’s top rated Computer Science graduate program were told that they’d been accepted only to later learn that they were among the ones who hadn’t made the cut.
Getting into graduate school is tough, particularly when it comes to securing a spot in one of the country’s most highly regarded programs.
About 800 applicants to Carnegie Melon’s top rated Computer Science graduate program believed, if only for a brief time, that they’d accomplished the difficult task, as they received emails stating such.
In truth, they were among the ones who hadn’t made the cut, and it was around 7 hours before they learned that their shining moment was the result of a flagging mishap in the computerized acceptance letter distribution process.
Before receiving his follow up message, which read "CORRECTION OF PRIOR EMAIL / REVOCATION OF OFFER OF ADMISSION TO MS IN CS PROGRAM," Ben Leibowitz of Connecticut had already gone out to celebrate.
He told the Associated P
