About 50 applicants to Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management had an unpleasant surprise this week. The applicants had received e-mail messages offering them admission to the school’s graduate program, but when they logged on to its Web site, they learned they had actually been rejected, The Chicago Tribune reported today.
University officials describe what happened as a “technological glitch,” the Tribune reported. The error affected less than 1 percent of applicants to the program. Kellogg’s director of admissions and financial aid has been calling each of the erroneously accepted students to explain what happened, and the school will reimburse their application fees. —Beckie Supiano
