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The Boston Globe reported today that a number of prospective students received the following email from MIT:
You are on this list because you are admitted to MIT!
Except, some recipients were in fact not admitted. The school explained the erroneous message was a draft that was inadvertently sent out.
Jim Braude and Margery Eagan opened the lines to ask listeners what they thought. Would you feel burned if your first-choice school jerked you around like that? What’s the best way to handle hurt feelings when an honest mistake was made? Should the students get in, anyway?
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