Calling all Kellogg Fall 2009 Applicants!

Ninkorn, I would have loved to try second one, but alas! no options

Hi All,

My first post here although I've been following the forum for the last couple of weeks. Good luck to all those with 'dual status'. The admissions office is probably open by now ... waiting to see how this unfolds. In any case, I think the adcom will probably spend the day cleaning up this mess - we shouldn't expect too many decisions to go out today ... or until they figure out what went wrong.

Cheers!

Thanks for posting this, eva23.

No, email is not legally binding.

Still no update to the admit e-mail/deny status issue?

Good luck guys! I hope the online status deny was a screw-up.

Kellogg is becoming this year's Cornell! (hopefully i ll get accepted by both)

they email would only be binding if they made you an offer and you accepted and gave "consideration", ie, paid a deposit, withdrew from other schools, etc.

I don't know if even that would hold. After all, they can repeal admissions offers late into the process if they discovered you lied in your app. I can't imagine that these schools don't have WIDE latitude about who they admit.

I don't think an e-mail or an acceptance is binding by any means. If you get arrested after getting accepted the school can take away your offer.

Instead of worrying about the legal ramifications of this fiasco, I think Kellogg will be more worried about its reputation. Regardless of whose fault this was, the adcom's image will suffer especially if this story is leaked to the press and published in something like WSJ/NYT/CNN. If this was an accidental e-mail error that was sent to only a few people, I wouldn't be surprised if Kellogg just honored the e-mail in order to avoid an embarassing situation.

I agree with what you guys are saying, but they need to be responsible for the consequences of their actions and if someone who didn't check the site to find out that they had the rejection letter (which I have to image at least a few people did) and went to work today and told their boss they got in and withdrew other school apps etc, then Kellogg could have a serious problem on their hands if they didn't honor the letter. I mean would royallly mess with someone's future! I know I had to go back and tell my recommenders to keep writing the recs (after having sent an email telling them not too) and call my parents and tell them I was not in fact in and then they had to call tell people they had called.... and so the humiliation chains runs deep!! At least for me and I can't imagine I'm the onlly one who was freaking out excited about the acceptance and immedatetly blasted everyone! the perils of instant communication of wireless technology.

Ouch...sorry. Very unprofessional.

I hope you luck in your other schools .

I am so sorry to hear that suntaurian. The e-mail fiasco was a bad stomach punch. As river suggested, you might as well ask for some feedback (try to make the best out of a bad situation). I'm really sorry about this and hope you get into all your other schools.

Oh jeez, i'm the deadman walking then... waiting... for my call...

Guys, I just wanted to say I feel real bad for those who got that ding/acceptance. For those who turned out that it is in fact a ding, I am doubly sorry.

I am not one of those people. My status is still the same. But I think that is real unfortunate. And it does not make Kellogg good. All the time spent in those applications individually, I think they should make darn sure that the absolute worst thing does not happen, which is what seemed to happen to Sunatarian.

Really sorry to those folks who this happened to.

Sorry to hear the news everyone... I was hoping that it was an admit!

Best of luck on your upcoming apps.

Question on the app (1 of many, I'm sure) - did you put down details of your English proficiency in the online app where they ask about languages or can I assume that they assume an American-born citizen is fluent in English?!?

Dont mention english! that would be silly!