After months of agony and apprehension, the day is finally here. Your heart is racing faster than it ever has before, and your parents are eagerly peering over your shoulder as you log into your email, all in the hopes that a “CONGRATULATIONS!” email will be waiting from your first choice college.
We’ve all been there. Whether it ended in celebration or calamity, as college women, we can all related to the unique anxieties of college acceptance season. For an unlucky 5,109 applicants, the restlessness and stress of college admissions season was taken to a whole new level this admissions sesaon.
According to the Huffington Post, the State University of New York at Buffalo mistakenly sent out over 5,000 acceptance emails to hopeful applicants. After receiving an acceptance email, the joyous relief was cut short when the applicants received emails several hours later explaining that there had been a mishap and they had not actually been accepted to the university.
As stated by CNN, the university claims that these e-mails were sent out using an “incorrect email list was generated from a database of applicants.” This statement was released by the university’s associate vice president for media relations and stakeholder communications, John DellaContrada.
Although this is pretty bad, it gets even worse. Apparently, the university is not yet finished going through all of the applications. What does that mean? Well, some of the students who have already had their emotions toyed with by this brutal mistake could have been accepted after all.
This seems crazy, right? How could colleges accidentally send out acceptances when they know what we’re going through? Surprisingly, this type of thing has actually happened quite a few times. The absolute winner in the category is UC San Diego. In 2009, they sent out 28,000 acceptance emails to students who had not been accepted to the school, according to the Huffington Post.
After seeing all of the chaos that these email acceptances have caused, maybe snail mail is the way to go when it comes to college acceptance letters?