Re NYTimes: U.C. Irvine Rescinds Acceptances for Hundreds of Applicants

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Synthesis:Law and Technology" <synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com>
> Date: July 30, 2017 at 5:15:39 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] NYTimes: U.C. Irvine Rescinds Acceptances for Hundreds of Applicants
>
> Dave,
>
> I must be missing something here.  The stated reason is too many people accepted the offers. So why offer too many? 
> What's wrong with waiting lists?  What criteria were used, I refuse to believe that all successful applicants exactly 
> made it to the same degree.  Waiting lists for acceptance have been around since...well... before my time at least.  
> I was on the wait list for my chosen med school but law was most excited to have me.  By the time med school 
> recognized my inherent " superiority" and offered me a place, I was already reading up for first term.  I can 
> guarantee they found someone further on the list to replace.  And this was all done without massive computer systems. 
> Someone accepts an offer? "Boop" someone at the end is no longer on the wait list.  Or left there just in case.  It's 
> really trivial at that point.  And scalable.  You do a manual override to accept more than the quota for history? The 
> overall number gets decreased in the faculty.  There just seems no need for this.
>
>
> > On Jul 30, 2017 2:25 PM, "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/us/uc-irvine-acceptance-rejected.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
> >
> > With too many applicants vying to enter the Class of 2021, the university had to rescind acceptance letters for 499 
> > students. Dozens have appealed.



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