As if the college application process wasn't hard enough, Vassar College had to go and punk 76 kids into thinking they got into the popular liberal arts college when they most certainly had not. So as a token of its regret the school is now...refunding the screwed students their $65 application fees. On the one hand the school admits that payday will be "of very little consolation" but on the other hand? These kids have college-application-from-hell stories to tell for the rest of their lives!
The mess-up occurred last Friday around 4 p.m. when
122 students who had applied for binding early admission to Vassar saw what the school later called a “test letter” congratulating them on their acceptance. Hours later, the students received a message saying the letter had been posted in error. Once the correct decisions were displayed, only 46 of the students were told they had been accepted.
Naturally, some parents are livid about the whole thing and are calling on the school to accept the kids anyway (after all, the kid's applications were binding so why shouldn't the school's acceptance?). But most people seem to accept it was just an unfortunate fuck up on the school's part. And at least a few of the kids are still holding out hope: "I would still love very much to be accepted," one un-accepted student told the Times, "but I didn’t expect anything further than what they did."
