Carnegie Mellon Accidentally Admits 800 Applicants

About 800 applicants to a master's program in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University on Monday received e-mails accepting them to the program. Then, seven hours later, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, they received a notice that the acceptances were a mistake. They were asked to confirm the revocation of the offers. “This error was the result of serious mistakes in our process for generating acceptance letters,” said a statement from the university. “Once the error was discovered, the university moved quickly to notify affected applicants.”