Northeastern University sends out erroneous admission emails

Thousands of past and current Northeastern University law school applicants received erroneous admission acceptance emails, the Boston school said.

The emails were sent due to a technical error by 205 current law school applicants who said they were admitted into the next year's class.

The law school sent a clarifying email explaining the error, officials said, adding that individual outreach was underway for applicants with concerns.

Admissions decisions will not be finalized until later in the academic year.

The erroneous email was sent to nearly 4,000 applicants who applied a year ago.

Many of those applicants have already been matriculated at Northeastern or another law school, but they also received the clarification email, the school said in a statement.

The School of Law deeply regrets this unintended mistake and is taking steps to ensure that it will not happen in the future, the school said.

Lakisha Papoutsakis, a single mother of four from Northborough, Massachusetts, was one of the applicants affected by the glitch.

She said she had twice been rejected by the school in the past two years. It was like going on a roller coaster, that was exactly how it felt, she told NBC Boston. Last night, I got this email, and I was like, all excited. Oh my God! She received the follow-up email six hours later.

I was like, Oh my God! She said this is so amazing, and then it was like Oh no, sorry, April Fool's Day.

How do you make such a big mistake and then do nothing to rectify it? Papoutsakis asked.