For Some Vassar Applicants, Joy Then Misery as College Corrects Mistake

New York Times

January 29, 2012

About 4 p.m. EST Friday, scores of early-decision applicants to Vassar were mistakenly told they had been accepted. Jeff Kosmacher, a spokesman for Vassar, said that a "test letter" intended as a placeholder for the real admissions decision had not been replaced before students checked their application statuses online. The error was discovered around 4:30 p.m., he said. Between 6:30 and 7 p.m. Friday, the 122 students who had seen the test letter - 46 who were, in fact, accepted and 76 who were not - were sent a message from the college that cited a "system error" and apologized for the mistake.

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