Oopsy daisy...

http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/blog/timestamp/2012/04/ucla_mistakenly_tells_894_waitlisted_students_they039re_accepted

goingfortheroses;735529 said:

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Oopsy daisy...

http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/blog/timestamp/2012/04/ucla_mistakenly_tells_894_waitlisted_students_they039re_accepted

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I can just see Red ( remember the dad, on the 70's show ) saying, " you dumbass "

goingfortheroses;735529 said:

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Oopsy daisy...

http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/blog/timestamp/2012/04/ucla_mistakenly_tells_894_waitlisted_students_they039re_accepted

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Don't you just hate it when that happens?

And seriously, could budget cuts and under-staffed departments cause this kind of thing to happen more at the UC's?

It's happened at UCSD before in 2009. One of my friends got a false admissions from UCSD in the past and I remember her being super ecstatic because UCSD was her dream school one day and extremely depressed the next. Luckily for her though, she ended up transferring a year later to the best UC (GO BEARS!) and enjoyed her time immensely.

maybe they're waiting for better students to decline other schools so they can offer them

While it's funny from afar, I can see this easily happening at Cal.

Its like they let Jim Mora handle regular admissions too!

Didn't this happen at Boalt a couple years ago?

When I was applying to law schools, I received both an acceptance letter and a rejection letter on the same day from UC Hastings. That was bizarre.

It didn't matter as I ended up at Boalt in the end.

JollyBear;735798 said:

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When I was applying to law schools, I received both an acceptance letter and a rejection letter on the same day from UC Hastings. That was bizarre.

It didn't matter as I ended up at Boalt in the end.

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I know most like to bag on UCLA but I feel awful for those kids. Getting into UCLA would be a huge accomplishment. Then to have it ripped from you would be very hard to take....

I was a JC transfer doing some registration work for my junior year at Haas undergrad at Barrows standing next to some poor young asian girl, a fellow JC transfer who got a lower grade in her final sophomore semester than what was her promised grades. She was literally begging to get in because of the last minute shock.

The shitty thing was that I had the same experience six months earlier and did the same begging for my JC statistics prof to raise my deserved B to an A so I could meet my promised grades. He did.

I don't know what happened to that girl, but I'll never forget it.

JollyBear;735798 said:

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When I was applying to law schools, I received both an acceptance letter and a rejection letter on the same day from UC Hastings. That was bizarre.

It didn't matter as I ended up at Boalt in the end.

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You were way too smart to go to Hastings. They knew it.

But ain't it funny how **** works out?

socalBear23;735807 said:

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Getting into UCLA would be a huge accomplishment.

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No it's not.

Here's what I was thinking of -- in 2006, Boalt accidentally sent out as many as 7000 email invitations to a dinner that was only for accepted students. It began by congratulating them on their acceptance; it was sent accidentally by someone training a new person on the email system.

http://vietcyber.com/forums/showthread.php?102170-UCB-school-of-law-sends-7-000-false-acceptance-invitations

Any chance Walker was one of them?

Sonofafurd;736300 said:

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No it's not.

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OK...:headbang

894 new basketball players for the Bruins. Ben Howland needs all he can get. Ben has entered the One-and-Done Sweepstakes with Muhammad committing. We can now call him Calipari-on-the-coast.

socalBear23;736329 said:

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OK...:headbang

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goingfortheroses;735529 said:

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Oopsy daisy...

http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/blog/timestamp/2012/04/ucla_mistakenly_tells_894_waitlisted_students_they039re_accepted

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For some reason this reminds me of an old joke I heard in the Army of the platoon leader who had to tell Pvt. Johnson at morning formation that his parents had just been killed in a car crash.

"Will all the men with both their parents still living, please take two steps forward"

"Not so fast, Private Johnson"

If I were one of the 894, I would just send UCLA this letter in response (the first one).

Pure genius.

I love that first rejection of the rejection.