April 2, 2004
UC-Davis Misfires Scholarship Award Notices to 6,000 Nonwinners
In its first attempt to send e-mail notifications to scholarship recipients, the University of California at Davis last month delivered good news to 6,000 prospective students, telling them they had each won a prestigious $7,500 merit scholarship. Unfortunately, the message was wrong.
The students were notified three hours later that they had not won the scholarships after all, but that they had been accepted for admission.
The university's chancellor, Larry N. Vanderhoef, sent
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