Georgia State University applicants have received a welcome email for the 2024-25 academic year. However, the email was mistakenly sent to 1,500 applicants by the school’s admissions office. Here, the school held its fall commencement ceremony on December 17, 2014 in Atlanta.
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Georgia State University applicants have received a welcome email for the 2024-25 academic year. However, the email was mistakenly sent to 1,500 applicants by the school’s admissions office. Here, the school held its fall commencement ceremony on December 17, 2014 in Atlanta.
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An unfortunate mistake caused 1,500 applicants to Georgia State University in Atlanta to celebrate their acceptance too early.
Affected students who applied for admission for the 2024-25 school year received a welcome email from the university on April 29, congratulating them on their acceptance.
However, the university said students who had not yet filled out the application received the wrong welcome email.
In a statement to NPR, university spokesperson Jo Ann Herold said the 1,500 students were not sent official acceptance letters but were sent “notifications from an academic department” welcoming the students intend to major in their future academic field.
The university said the next day, 1,500 The applicant was sent a follow-up message explaining the error. Herold said the university encourages students to complete an application so they can be considered for admission.
The university did not say what caused the error. Some candidates have now completed the application and received an official acceptance decision.
“The Admissions Office at Georgia State University apologizes for any confusion, disappointment, or inconvenience this misinformation may cause,” Herold told NPR.
Misinformation from the university left some applicants, like Vanessa Peters’ daughter, feeling disappointed.
Peters, whose daughter applied for admission to the university, said Atlanta station WSB-TV that her daughter was overjoyed to learn that she had been accepted – only to realize a day later that her acceptance email had been sent by mistake.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Peters said.
“She really wouldn’t talk about it. She didn’t leave her room all day. She was very disappointed,” Peters told WSB-TV.
In 2018, the university made a similar mistake when about 1,300 prospective graduates received text messages implying they had been accepted, despite initially being rejected. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
At the time, the university told the newspaper that the employee who made the mistake had been retrained and that school officials had to review the system used to notify applicants to prevent mistakes. Future.
