Northeastern University School of Law Admissions Faux Pas...

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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts law school says it's guilty of accidentally sending acceptance emails to thousands of former and current applicants.

The Northeastern University School of Law in a statement Wednesday blamed a "technical error" for the glitch, saying the erroneous emails went to more than 200 people who applied for admission starting next fall, as well as to nearly 4,000 former applicants, some of whom are already enrolled.

"The School of Law quickly sent a clarifying email explaining the error. Individual outreach is also taking place to applicants with concerns," the Boston school said.

Final admissions decisions will not be made until later in the academic year.

"The School of Law deeply regrets this unintended mistake and is taking steps to ensure that it will not happen in the future," the school said.

Lakisha Papoutsakis, a single mother from Northborough, Massachusetts, who received the acceptance email, told NBC10 Boston that she has dreamed of going to law school since she was a child.

She shared the good news with her loved ones before noticing the follow-up email.

"I was like, 'Oh my God this is so amazing,' and then it was like, 'Oh no, sorry, April Fool's Day,'" she said.

This fall's law school class has 234 members out of 3,877 applicants, according to Northeastern's website.

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Email can be a dangerous thing if you don't pay attention to what you were doing.

Years ago I worked in an area of Scottsdale where a new Mexican restaurant opened up that was billed as being classy to appeal to the upscale companies in the area.

I took my then GF to lunch there. The food was mediocre and the service was lousy.

When I emailed one of my co-workers about the experience I hit the wrong send button and the email went to all of the 1200 employees of my company, including somebody who was related to the owner of the restaurant.

Created quite a stir.

The owner ended up comping us a meal, made sure the food was better, and the staff fell all over themselves to please us.
 
Several employers ago I was the HR manager for a small insurance company. We had offices all over the country, 10-15 employees apiece, in roughly 10 different states on both coasts.

One Monday morning I came in to find an email from the manager of one of our west coast branches; "It was an accident. I take full responsibility. Please don't fire her!" With no explanation of what he was talking about.

Further down my email box, I found an email from one of his employees, which contained a mildly risque but really nothing to write home about photo.

I called the manager as soon as it was late enough and asked him what the heck. He said, she had received it from someone. She's relatively new; had been intending to delete it and in her unfamiliarity with our systems, instead sent it to all 120 employees. Said manager had been standing right there, had shouted, "NO! Not that key!" but it was too late.

I laughed, suggested a refresher course on the email system, deleted the email, and we all went on with our days.
 
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