lil kiwi Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 I got an email from a professor at 'school which shall not be named' today. I had never heard from him nor gotten in touch with him myself. The email basically said: "Dear 'random person's name' I'm pleased to let you know that you have been accepted into the Neuroscience programme at our school details of who they will hear from and what they should expect to get in the mail" I emailed him back saying that that was not my name, though I did also apply to your programme "I'm guessing this email was not intended for me?" The reply basically said, oops, we screwed up: please disregard and this doesn't have any bearing on your application - we are sending out admissions info one at a time. I cannot believe this happened... I will be super pissed off now if they don't accept me. AND I'm not so sure if I'm still interested in a school that can't even get their email addresses right :( PrettyVacant and psycholinguist 2
eklavya Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 ya dude, that's seriously messed up. i'd be super pissed off as hell too if they don't accept me now.
newms Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 That's very embarrassing to say the least. I hope they do end up admitting you.
psi456 Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 I've definitely heard of that happening before. At my old school, they actually emailed our social security numbers out to a swath of other students instead of the faculty... whoops. If you're sending anything that has any real bearing, I recommend checking the To: field. For things like this, I feel like its only right.
lil kiwi Posted March 17, 2011 Author Posted March 17, 2011 Thanks everyone for the lovely support, I really appreciate it
ikatticus Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Good thing you read it properly. I probably would have been so excited I wouldn't have noticed and then gone and told all my friends/family, then horribly embarassed myself. That is so unprofessional of them!
Poppet Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 I received an acceptance from one school, and then two days later received a form email informing me I was waitlisted. I responded to them and basically said, "" and they wrote me back saying they'd sent the email to the wrong listserve and reassured me of my admission. Apparently all admitted applicants were accidentally informed they were waitlisted. They had to send out a mass PLEASE DISREGARD LAST EMAIL message in response. I bet they got a lot of panicked responses in the few minutes before the problem was corrected... I also know that some students received the waitlist email and then were accepted afterwards; for those of you who recognize this situation, I would write to confirm that you were on the right list!
jaxzwolf Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 This happened to me a couple weeks ago, except I received a rejection letter addressed to someone other than myself. So I had a few moments of panicky, 'there's still hope!' before sending off an email to clarify and finding out not much later on that the rejection was, indeed, intended for me-- they'd just gotten the name wrong. Really, really wrong. "Sorry for that. Yeah, you're still rejected." Not the way to go about giving out information that meant so much to me.
mostlygoo Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Should have just thanked them warmly, and asked who you should contact to make sure your name is updated in their database. And then told them you've just quit your job so you can focus on the program 100%, starting now. Damis, eco_env, Neuronista and 3 others 6
csKid Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Surely, They should double check such stuff. For some people, it finally boils down to one admit and if its screwed then life is. nonymouse and mrtasan 1 1
lil kiwi Posted March 17, 2011 Author Posted March 17, 2011 On the bright side, I received my very own acceptance email this morning: with my name on it I guess I will just pretend yesterday's email didn't happen. I've now heard back from all 8 of my schools so it's decision time! Neuronista, Damis and Bukharan 3
Silent_Bobina Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Good thing you read it properly. I probably would have been so excited I wouldn't have noticed and then gone and told all my friends/family, then horribly embarassed myself. That is so unprofessional of them! That would totally happen to me... I have only really checked the first lines of my letters for good or bad... that's terrible!
falling_leaves Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 That would totally happen to me... I have only really checked the first lines of my letters for good or bad... that's terrible! I can also see that happening to me. I'm glad you've been admitted into their program, lil_kiwi.
Mrs. Grad Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 I'm so glad you were accepted! Congratulations!
Neuronista Posted March 19, 2011 Posted March 19, 2011 CONGRATULATIONS!!! I'm so happy for you. After all that suspense, you should not have deserved anything less than an acceptance! May I ask what programs you've applied to? I'm applying for neuroscience as well but still waiting on my decisions. Wish me luck!
thesnout Posted March 19, 2011 Posted March 19, 2011 Ughh. That would be my worst nightmare. I can't believe that happened. But on the bright side you're in Congrats!! I hope they gave you some good funding after that mishap. Full tuition waiver. $100,000,000,000,000 per year stipend. hehe. Goodluck with decisions.
joenobody0 Posted March 20, 2011 Posted March 20, 2011 I got an email from a professor at 'school which shall not be named' today. I had never heard from him nor gotten in touch with him myself. The email basically said: "Dear 'random person's name' I'm pleased to let you know that you have been accepted into the Neuroscience programme at our school details of who they will hear from and what they should expect to get in the mail" I emailed him back saying that that was not my name, though I did also apply to your programme "I'm guessing this email was not intended for me?" The reply basically said, oops, we screwed up: please disregard and this doesn't have any bearing on your application - we are sending out admissions info one at a time. I cannot believe this happened... I will be super pissed off now if they don't accept me. AND I'm not so sure if I'm still interested in a school that can't even get their email addresses right :( You should have replied: Dear Professor, I don't wish to attend your school. However my friend Lil Kiwi also applied. He/she is far smarter and harder working than I am. Yours truly, Other Person
lil kiwi Posted March 24, 2011 Author Posted March 24, 2011 Thanks everyone, I'm super excited joenobody0: very creative, I like it! PhD Pharmacist: I applied to Rockefeller, Northwestern, NYU, Cornell, Boston, UIC, UAB and Purdue. I've heard back from all of them now and I'm trying to make my choice
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