NY University Mistakenly Tells 5,000 Applicants They’re Accepted

Hey, congratulations! You've been accepted to college! (Just kidding.)

Roughly 5,000 high school students received an email that stated, "Congratulations, you’ve been accepted to the University at Buffalo." The university then recanted the emails hours later, realizing that they had emailed the wrong list of students.

The upstate New York university acknowledged the fact that they sent acceptance letters to roughly 5,100 applicants using an incorrect mail list. The university is still reviewing applications, which means some of the students were accepted but not really, could still make it in, as reported by HuffPost.

The University of Buffalo plans to accept around 5,400 students out of an application pool of over 25,000. A spokesman for the university stated that these admissions mistakes happen more than people realize.