“I tried calling the Admissions office all day today because I saw the message yesterday after work,’’ one applicant wrote. It happened at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in 2017, at Tulane University in 2016, and at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015, among others. The University of California system previously had a major problem when about 28,000 students received acceptance letters to U.C. Irvine this year, both the acceptance letters and the rescinded offers were sent on purpose. Irvine recognizes, in many cases, that if a transcript or test score does not arrive by deadline, it may not be the student’s fault.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2017 13:37 UTC