Dive Brief:
- MIT is apologizing after it erroneously notified some students by email that they had been accepted.
- An admissions officer sent an email to both prospective students and those admitted early with the automated tag line: "You are on this list because you are admitted to MIT!"
- The admissions official apologized and posted a blog entry about his mistake.
Dive Insight:
There's not much comfort in numbers here, but MIT is hardly alone in this awkward club of schools misfiring on admissions notes. In December, Fordham sent out mistaken notices to about 2,500 people. And there's a long line of other schools — including Vassar and NYU — that have done the same.