# The University of Kentucky says "oopsie!" a half million times

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**Created:** [April 8, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-university-of-kentucky-says-oopsie-a-half-million-times/939633 "2021-04-08T23:19:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-university-of-kentucky-says-oopsie-a-half-million-times/939633/1 "2021-04-08T23:19:59Z")

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Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there!

> **[University of Kentucky mistakenly sends 500,000 acceptances](https://apnews.com/article/science-kentucky-5953f92673185b7f7baed3937d876d16)**
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> LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky mistakenly sent acceptance emails to 500,000 high school seniors for a program that usually accepts about three dozen students a year. The school followed up with another email less than 24 hours later...

😃

Quickly corrected and all that, but still funny. Imagine if sometime in June the admissions folks suddenly realized “wow; we’re getting _a lot_ of dorm room applications from incoming freshman this year” or “wow; we’re gonna need a lot more freshman orientation leaders this summer! Like, several thousand more!”

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-university-of-kentucky-says-oopsie-a-half-million-times/939633/2 "2021-04-09T00:26:05Z")

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The college I taught at made this same mistake, but once they saw how great it was for their bottom line, decided they’d just… **keep all the students**. … 😶 … Now, it wasn’t on the same scale (just our three design programs), but we were scrambling.

Suddenly they needed someone who could get along with and deal with and motivate students who really had no business being in college yet…

… oh, I see you guessed the ending.

Yep, I was a lowly part-timer who got pulled off all his usual classes and put on “Beginning-But-It’s-Actually-Remedial Computer Graphics” and “Illustration for Kids Who Just Want To Draw Horsies”.

But, hey, the school’s screwup meant I got bumped up to full time. And thanks to a great dean and union steward, I stayed full time. For the next twenty years 'til I retired.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-university-of-kentucky-says-oopsie-a-half-million-times/939633/3 "2021-04-09T01:48:51Z")

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I can hardly wait for some Karen & her male-Karen husband to sue since their pwecious child “was pwomised a place at UK.”

A 10,000:1 oversubscription is interesting. They can’t really have had that many applicants to that particular program, can they? Or did they just spam some mailing list of high schoolers they’d bought for some other reason?