Accepted and Rejected

More than 100 University of California at Davis applicants received letters of acceptance recently, but their elation was deflated within days, when campus officials realized they had sent the letters to people who had been rejected. The university immediately fired off e-mail messages informing the students about the terrible mix-up, and then followed with letters "apologizing profusely," says Gary Tudor, director of undergraduate admissions.

The university didn't even know about the

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