School mistakenly tells some students they're in

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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Thursday, December 18, 2008 |

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