Okay, so this is for their MBA program, but...

Northwestern has a little explaining to do...specifically its Kellogg School of Management.

School mistakenly tells some students they're in
Associated Press
4:44 AM CST, December 18, 2008
EVANSTON, Ill. - Some students who thought they'd received the best present of all this holiday season from Northwestern University instead got the computer equivalent of coal in their stockings.

Fifty applicants to the university's prestigious Kellogg School of Management received e-mails telling them they'd been accepted into the MBA program only to learn there had been a "technical error" and they weren't in after all.

Kellogg spokeswoman Megan Washburn says the school learned of the mistake when students who'd received the acceptance e-mails checked out Kellogg's Web site only to learn the truth.

She says school officials have reached most of the students who received the incorrect e-mails.

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uSphere here again...yikes! These types of things do happen from time to time...and the school did begin the process of calling all affected students personally. But still...