On Friday about 3,500 applicants to the University of California at Berkeley’s law school received an e-mail message suggesting that they had been accepted for the fall semester. A few blissful minutes later, they learned that the message was the product of an administrator’s itchy trigger finger, not an admissions-office decision.
Edward Tom, the law school’s admissions director, was showing an employee how to use an e-mail program when he erred and sent the message — an invitation to an event for early-admission students — to a full roster of applicants instead of the 500 candidates whohad actually been accepted. "My staff isn’t going to let me touch that thing again," he said of the e-mail software. (The Mercury News)
