Carnegie Mellon Mistakenly Admits 800 Students

Carnegie Mellon University just joined the ranks of MIT, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, and other elite schools that have recently broken hearts through a technology glitch, by mistakenly e-mailing hundreds of applicants that they'd been accepted. The admissions office incorrectly sent an e-mail on Monday to about 800 people who'd applied to the university's master's program in computer science, university spokesperson Ken Walters confirmed.

"We understand the disappointment created by this mistake, and deeply apologize to the applicants for this miscommunication," Walters says. "We are currently reviewing our notification process to help ensure this does not happen in the future."