Finding out you’ve been rejected by your first-choice college can be a painful experience. But being denied may have been especially frustrating for applicants to Northwestern University: Due to a Web glitch, students who were not accepted to the institution couldn’t discover their admissions status until a day after the information was scheduled to appear online. Students who were accepted—or put on the university’s waiting list—were able to access their records immediately.



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