Dive Brief:
- Nearly 300 rejected or deferred applicants to Johns Hopkins University were mistakenly emailed welcome messages intended for applicants who were accepted.
- University officials said the email, which read "Embrace YES!" in the subject line, was sent due to “human error,” the Washington Post reported.
- Of those 294 early decision applicants who mistakenly received the messages, 285 had been rejected and nine were deferred.
Dive Insight:
The emails read: “We can’t wait for you to get to campus. Until then, as one of the newest members of the family, we hope you’ll show your Blue Jay pride.” The university emailed apologies about two-and-a-half hours later.
Johns Hopkins is just the latest school to experience a mistaken admissions snafu: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology did it in February, Fordham University did it a year ago, Vassar College did it in 2012, and the University of California at San Diego did it in 2009 to 28,000 students who had been rejected.