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

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

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> From: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart2 () gmail com>
> Date: July 31, 2017 at 10:15:01 AM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart2 () gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re NYTimes: U.C. Irvine Rescinds Acceptances for Hundreds of Applicants
>
> UC Irvine’s action is reprehensible and frankly, incomprehensible.
>
> They screwed up and accepted too many students, then they compounded the problem and backed out of acceptances for 
> 500 kids.
>
> Many of these kids probably had acceptances to other great schools, which they gave up to attend Irvine.  Those spots 
> are likely gone to others now, leaving students who trusted in the integrity of UC Irvine in the cold.
>
> There are any number of ways Irvine could have acted to solve the problem without scrambling the lives of their 
> accepted students.
>
> * Tripling up doubles and turning triples into quads. MIT does this all the time. It’s irritating but much better 
> than the alternative.
>
> * Giving upperclassmen incentives to move off-campus
>
> * Offer support for a gap year, which is a good thing anyway.
>
> A combination of such things could easily accomodate 500 extra kids out of an undergraduate population of 12,000.  It 
> just isn’t that big a deal.
>
> Instead UC Irvine chose to scramble the lives of a hundreds of 18 year old kids, and I think has done lasting damage 
> to their brand.  Put another way, they’ve shown they lack integrity and parents, students, and guidance counselers 
> will remember it for years.
>
> -Larry Stewart



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